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Managers, directors and senior officials
Corporate managers and directors
- Charitable organisation managers and directors
- Chief executives and senior officials
- Directors in logistics, warehousing and transport
- Elected officers and representatives
- Financial managers and directors
- Health services and public health managers and directors
- Human resource managers and directors
- Information technology directors
- Managers and directors in retail and wholesale
- Marketing, sales and advertising directors
- Officers in armed forces
- Production managers and directors in construction
- Production managers and directors in manufacturing
- Production managers and directors in mining and energy
- Public relations and communications directors
- Purchasing managers and directors
- Senior officers in fire, ambulance, prison and related services
- Senior police officers
- Social services managers and directors
Other managers and proprietors
- Betting shop and gambling establishment managers
- Directors in consultancy services
- Early education and childcare services proprietors
- Garage managers and proprietors
- Hairdressing and beauty salon managers and proprietors
- Health care practice managers
- Hire services managers and proprietors
- Hotel and accommodation managers and proprietors
- Leisure and sports managers and proprietors
- Managers and directors in the creative industries
- Managers and proprietors in agriculture and horticulture
- Managers and proprietors in forestry, fishing and related services
- Managers in logistics
- Managers in storage and warehousing
- Managers in transport and distribution
- Property, housing and estate managers
- Publicans and managers of licensed premises
- Residential, day and domiciliary care managers and proprietors
- Restaurant and catering establishment managers and proprietors
- Travel agency managers and proprietors
- Waste disposal and environmental services managers
Process, plant and machine operatives
Process, plant, machine and construction operatives
- Assemblers (electrical and electronic products)
- Assemblers (vehicles and metal goods)
- Chemical and related process operatives
- Energy plant operatives
- Food, drink and tobacco process operatives
- Metal making and treating process operatives
- Metal working machine operatives
- Mining and quarry workers and related operatives
- Paper and wood machine operatives
- Plastics process operatives
- Printing machine assistants
- Production, factory and assembly supervisors
- Rail construction and maintenance operatives
- Road construction operatives
- Routine inspectors and testers
- Scaffolders, stagers and riggers
- Sewing machinists
- Textile process operatives
- Tyre, exhaust and windscreen fitters
- Water and sewerage plant operatives
- Weighers, graders and sorters
Transport and mobile machine drivers and operatives
- Air transport operatives
- Bus and coach drivers
- Crane drivers
- Delivery drivers and couriers
- Driving instructors
- Fork-lift truck drivers
- Heavy and large goods vehicle drivers
- Marine and waterways transport operatives
- Rail transport operatives
- Taxi and cab drivers and chauffeurs
- Train and tram drivers
Professional occupations
Business, media and public service professionals
- Actuaries, economists and statisticians
- Advertising accounts managers and creative directors
- Architects
- Archivists, conservators and curators
- Barristers and judges
- Business and financial project management professionals
- Business and related research professionals
- Chartered and certified accountants
- Chartered architectural technologists, planning officers and consultants
- Chartered surveyors
- Clergy
- Construction project managers and related professionals
- Environmental health professionals
- Finance and investment analysts and advisers
- Librarians
- Management consultants and business analysts
- Marketing and commercial managers
- Newspaper and periodical broadcast journalists and reporters
- Newspaper, periodical and broadcast editors
- Probation officers
- Professional/chartered company secretaries
- Public relations professionals
- Quality assurance and regulatory professionals
- Quality control and planning engineers
- Quantity surveyors
- Social workers
- Solicitors and lawyers
- Taxation experts
- Youth work professionals
Health professionals
- Clinical psychologists
- Dental practitioners
- Generalist medical practitioners
- Medical radiographers
- Midwifery nurses
- Occupational therapists
- Optometrists
- Other psychologists
- Other registered nursing professionals
- Paramedics
- Pharmacists
- Physiotherapists
- Podiatrists
- Psychotherapists and cognitive behaviour therapists
- Registered children's nurses
- Registered community nurses
- Registered mental health nurses
- Registered nurse practitioners
- Registered specialist nurses
- Specialist medical practitioners and consultants
- Speech and language therapists
- Veterinarians
Science, research, engineering and technology professionals
- Aerospace engineers
- Biochemists and biomedical scientists
- Biological scientists
- Chemical scientists
- Civil engineers
- Conservation professionals
- Cyber security professionals
- Electrical engineers
- Electronics engineers (professional)
- Engineering project managers and project engineers
- Environment professionals
- Graphic and multimedia designers
- IT business analysts, architects and systems designers
- IT managers
- IT network professionals
- IT project managers
- IT quality and testing professionals
- Mechanical engineers (professional)
- Other researchers, unspecified discipline
- Physical scientists
- Production and process engineers
- Programmers and software development professionals
- Research and development (r&d) managers
- Social and humanities scientists
- Web design professionals
Teaching and other educational professionals
- Early education and childcare services managers
- Education advisers and school inspectors
- Education managers
- Further education teaching professionals
- Head teachers and principals
- Higher education teaching professionals
- Nursery education teaching professionals
- Primary education teaching professionals
- Secondary education teaching professionals
- Special and additional needs education teaching professionals
- Teachers of english as a foreign language
Elementary occupations
Elementary administration and service occupations
- Bar and catering supervisors
- Bar staff
- Cleaners and domestics
- Coffee shop workers
- Delivery operatives
- Elementary storage supervisors
- Exam invigilators
- Hospital porters
- Kitchen and catering assistants
- Launderers, dry cleaners and pressers
- Leisure and theme park attendants
- Postal workers, mail sorters and messengers
- Refuse and salvage occupations
- School midday and crossing patrol occupations
- Security guards and related occupations
- Shelf fillers
- Street cleaners
- Vehicle valeters and cleaners
- Waiters and waitresses
- Warehouse operatives
- Window cleaners
Elementary trades and related occupations
- Farm workers
- Forestry and related workers
- Groundworkers
- Industrial cleaning process occupations
- Packers, bottlers, canners and fillers
Associate professional occupations
Business and public service associate professionals
- Advertising and marketing associate professionals
- Aircraft pilots and air traffic controllers
- Brokers
- Business sales executives
- Buyers and procurement officers
- Careers advisers and vocational guidance specialists
- Data analysts
- Estate agents and auctioneers
- Estimators, valuers and assessors
- Events managers and organisers
- Financial accounts managers
- Financial and accounting technicians
- Health and safety managers and officers
- Human resources and industrial relations officers
- Importers and exporters
- Information technology trainers
- Inspectors of standards and regulations
- Insurance underwriters
- Legal associate professionals
- Merchandisers
- Other vocational and industrial trainers
- Project support officers
- Public services associate professionals
- Sales accounts and business development managers
- Ship and hovercraft officers
Culture, media and sports occupations
- Actors, entertainers and presenters
- Artists
- Arts officers, producers and directors
- Authors, writers and translators
- Clothing, fashion and accessories designers
- Dancers and choreographers
- Fitness and wellbeing instructors
- Interior designers
- Musicians
- Photographers, audio-visual and broadcasting equipment operators
- Sports coaches, instructors and officials
- Sports players
Health and social care associate professionals
- Child and early years officers
- Complementary health associate professionals
- Counsellors
- Dispensing opticians
- Early education and childcare practitioners
- Higher level teaching assistants
- Housing officers
- Medical and dental technicians
- Pharmaceutical technicians
- Veterinary nurses
- Youth and community workers
Protective service occupations
- Fire service officers (watch manager and below)
- Non-commissioned officers and other ranks
- Police officers (sergeant and below)
- Prison service officers (below principal officer)
Science, engineering and technology associate professionals
- Building and civil engineering technicians
- CAD, drawing and architectural technicians
- Database administrators and web content technicians
- Electrical and electronics technicians
- Engineering technicians
- IT technicians
- IT user support technicians
- Laboratory technicians
- Planning, process and production technicians
- Quality assurance technicians
Administrative and secretarial occupations
Administrative occupations
- Bank and post office clerks
- Book-keepers, payroll managers and wages clerks
- Credit controllers
- Customer service managers
- Data entry administrators
- Finance officers
- Human resources administrative occupations
- Library clerks and assistants
- Local government administrative occupations
- National government administrative occupations
- Office managers
- Office supervisors
- Officers of non-governmental organisations
- Pensions and insurance clerks and assistants
- Records clerks and assistants
- Sales administrators
- Stock control clerks and assistants
- Transport and distribution clerks and assistants
Secretarial and related occupations
- Company secretaries and administrators
- Legal secretaries
- Medical secretaries
- Personal assistants and other secretaries
- Receptionists
- School secretaries
- Typists and related keyboard occupations
Skilled trades occupations
Skilled agricultural and related trades
Skilled construction and building trades
- Bricklayers
- Carpenters and joiners
- Construction and building trades supervisors
- Floorers and wall tilers
- Glaziers, window fabricators and fitters
- Painters and decorators
- Plasterers
- Plumbers and heating and ventilating installers and repairers
- Roofers, roof tilers and slaters
- Steel erectors
- Stonemasons and related trades
Skilled metal, electrical and electronic trades
- Air-conditioning and refrigeration installers and repairers
- Aircraft maintenance and related trades
- Boat and ship builders and repairers
- Computer system and equipment installers and servicers
- Electrical service and maintenance mechanics and repairers
- Electricians and electrical fitters
- Metal machining setters and setter-operators
- Metal plate workers, smiths, moulders and related occupations
- Metal working production and maintenance fitters and technicians
- Pipe fitters
- Precision instrument makers and repairers
- Rail and rolling stock builders and repairers
- Security system installers and repairers
- Sheet metal workers
- Skilled metal, electrical and electronic trades supervisors
- Telecoms and related network installers and repairers
- Tool makers, tool fitters and markers-out
- Tv, video and audio servicers and repairers
- Vehicle body builders and repairers
- Vehicle paint technicians
- Vehicle technicians, mechanics and electricians
- Welding trades
Textiles, printing and other skilled trades
- Bakers and flour confectioners
- Butchers
- Catering and bar managers
- Chefs
- Cooks
- Fishmongers and poultry dressers
- Florists
- Footwear and leather working trades
- Furniture makers and other craft woodworkers
- Glass and ceramics makers, decorators and finishers
- Pre-press technicians
- Print finishing and binding workers
- Printers
- Tailors and dressmakers
- Upholsterers
Caring, leisure and other service occupations
Caring personal service occupations
- Ambulance staff (excluding paramedics)
- Care escorts
- Care workers and home carers
- Childminders
- Dental nurses
- Early education and childcare assistants
- Educational support assistants
- Houseparents and residential wardens
- Nannies and au pairs
- Nursing auxiliaries and assistants
- Pest controllers
- Playworkers
- Senior care workers
- Teaching assistants
- Undertakers, mortuary and crematorium assistants
Community and civil enforcement occupations
Leisure, travel and related personal service occupations
- Air travel assistants
- Beauticians and related occupations
- Bed and breakfast and guest house owners and proprietors
- Caretakers
- Cleaning and housekeeping managers and supervisors
- Hairdressers and barbers
- Housekeepers and related occupations
- Rail travel assistants
- Sports and leisure assistants
- Travel agents
Sales and customer service occupations
Customer service occupations
- Call and contact centre occupations
- Communication operators
- Customer service supervisors
- Market research interviewers
- Telephonists
Sales occupations
- Collector salespersons and credit agents
- Debt, rent and other cash collectors
- Market and street traders and assistants
- Pharmacy and optical dispensing assistants
- Retail cashiers and check-out operators
- Roundspersons and van salespersons
- Sales and retail assistants
- Sales supervisors - retail and wholesale
- Shopkeepers and owners - retail and wholesale
- Telephone salespersons
- Vehicle and parts salespersons and advisers
- Visual merchandisers and related occupations
Data: Office for National Statistics (SOC 2020, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2025, Annual Population Survey 2025-26), Department for Education Skills Imperative 2035 projections, Skills England apprenticeship standards, HESA Discover Uni graduate outcomes (CC BY 4.0, aggregated by Peernovo) and interest profiles from O*NET 31.0 (U.S. Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0).