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What do graduates do - regional (Spring 08)

Summary

Looking at first degree graduate employment data between 2003/4 and 2005/06, Charlie Ball from the Higher Education Careers Services Unit (HECSU) reports on employment trends by region during this period.

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Introduction

In Spring 2005, Graduate Market Trends published an overview of first degree graduate destination information, by region of the UK. This research examined the employment outcomes for first degree graduates from 2002/3 in each Government Office region of the country and looked at how graduates from different regions were employed six months after graduating.

This article examines how employment outcomes for first degree graduates six months after graduating have changed in the intervening years, to 2005/6, for all Government Office regions of England, as well as Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

All data used is derived from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE) survey.

Employment refers to those who were in full-time paid work, part-time paid work, voluntary/unpaid work, and graduates who were working and studying.

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Overall trends

Graduate employment outcomes remained relatively stable across UK regions between 2003/4 and 2005/6, with most regions seeing increasing numbers of graduates entering work, and falling numbers starting non-graduate employment. Wales saw a fall in numbers of graduates entering work, whilst Northern Ireland was the only region to see an overall rise in the percentage of employed graduates in jobs that did not require a degree.

The health professions are the most common employment outcome in all regions outside London, but the capital maintains a different employment character than the rest of the UK, with finance and management much more significant and many occupations being disproportionately concentrated in the city.

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Employment by region

Content last updated: May 08