Labour Market Information

DfES Skillsbase
This site brings together information on labour market, education and skills trends. SkillsBase is linked to an interactive database allowing users to create charts and tables. Also has a useful set of links to other labour market information

DfES
Link to their statistics pages.

Skills and Education Network
Aims to improve the flow of up-to-date and relevant skills information to decision makers in training, education and enterprise.

Labour Market in Wales
Key statistics from the National Assembly. The Digest of Welsh Statistics 2001 also has a chapter on the Labour Market.

Future Skills Wales
Reports.

Nomis
Provided by National Statistics, Nomis gives you access to the most up-to-date and detailed labour market data produced from official sources. Full Nomis database is now free once you register. This includes earnings, vacancies, vat registrations, industry locations, size of employers, etc - the combinations are huge.

Workthing.com
For unofficial salary and wage information, try the Salary Checker on Workthing.com. This is run by the Guardian Media Group with AC Nielsen as a partner. You can search by job, title, industry and location. The job titles are rather broad so you may not find one that matches your requirements. The data is collected from jobs advertised over the last twelve months in newspapers, trade magazines and the regional press.

Institute for Employment Studies
Has a good reputation for producing high quality surveys and publications about the labour market generally.