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The Labour Market Challenge Job Postings by Occupation, year ending March 2020

Skills

Almost half (46%) of Barrow’s 3,000 job postings in the last year
were for Professional Occupations, a significantly higher than both
Cumbria and England, demonstrating strong demand in the Borough

for higher level occupations. This is compounded also by strong
demand for Associate Professional and Technical Occupations,
which are the next most posted occupation in Barrow at 18% -
slightly more than England.

For all other occupation types, Barrow saw a smaller proportion of
job postings than both England and Cumbria. This further underlines
the strong demand in Barrow for higher level occupations. Barrow
saw especially few postings in Caring, Leisure and Other Services,

as well as Customer Service and Sales, with the proportion of job Baseline Skills in Job Postings, year ending March 2020
postings accounted for by these occupations in Barrow at
approximately half of the proportion in Cumbria in the past year.

Baseline skills referenced in job postings were broadly similar in
Barrow to those in Cumbria and England, with Communication Skills
being paramount in all regions – although only 18% of postings
made reference to Communication Skills in Barrow, compared to
21% in Cumbria.

Despite the especially high demand in Barrow for Professional
Occupations, which includes scientific and technical occupations,
virtually all of the skills demanded by employers through their job
postings were general and transferrable skills.

Data Source: Labour Insight via Cumbria County Council