- Home
- Publications
- Wage Pressures: A Perspective From Online Job Advertisements
Wage pressures: a perspective from online job advertisements



External Authors

Kennedy, J
Related Themes
Labour, Employment and WagesThis is a preview from the Quarterly UK Economic Outlook, November 2021.
Advertised pay in job postings on job listings website Indeed is rising fast in sectors where surging demand for new workers has outpaced supply. In rebounding sectors like food, distribution, construction and manufacturing, employers have been hiring at pace for months. However, the supply of jobseekers in those sectors has not kept up, leading to reports of labour shortages.
The result has been hefty increases in advertised pay for certain categories, adjusting for shifts in the mix of job titles within each occupation and the location of jobs over time. But across the economy more broadly, advertised pay has been rising at a much more modest pace.
The analysis in this Box has been prepared by Jack Kennedy, UK economist at Indeed.
Related Blog Posts


As furlough comes to an end, recruitment procedures are not fit for purpose for older workers
Johnny Runge
Rose Lasko-Skinner
5 min read


Related Projects

Wage and Employment Dynamics
Related News


Press Release: Compositional effects push up average weekly earnings at the end of 2020
26 Jan 2021
2 min read

Press Release: 2020 shaping up to be the worst year for total pay growth since 2009
15 Dec 2020
2 min read

Press Release: Recovery in average weekly earnings to stall despite hopes for a new vaccine
10 Nov 2020
2 min read
Related Publications
Measuring the Effect of the Cost-of-Living Crisis on Low-Income Households
11 May 2022
UK Economic Outlook Box Analysis
The Economic Consequences of the Ukraine War for UK Household Incomes
11 May 2022
UK Economic Outlook Box Analysis
Related events

Improving the Recruitment of Older Workers

