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Across Europe unemployment is now running at 12% . In Spain youth unemployment is close to 55%! Things in the UK are not quite as bad but do you know how competitive it is in some cities to get a job? Here are the number of jobseekers per vacancy in March.
|
City |
Jobseekers per Vacancy |
|
Aberdeen |
0.36 |
|
Cambridge |
0.64 |
|
Guildford |
0.73 |
|
Reading |
0.96 |
|
Oxford |
1.06 |
|
London |
2.10 |
|
Milton Keynes |
2.13 |
|
Slough |
2.41 |
|
Crawley |
2.54 |
|
Norwich |
2.60 |
|
Bristol |
2.75 |
|
Manchester |
2.92 |
|
Maidstone |
2.96 |
|
Swindon |
3.20 |
|
High Wycombe |
3.27 |
|
Warrington |
3.36 |
|
Chelmsford |
3.44 |
|
Newcastle |
3.46 |
|
Southampton |
3.68 |
|
Brighton |
3.81 |
|
Northampton |
3.88 |
|
Stevenage |
4.05 |
|
Portsmouth |
4.25 |
|
Belfast |
4.42 |
|
Derby |
4.43 |
|
Leeds |
4.43 |
|
Nottingham |
4.54 |
|
Preston |
4.65 |
|
Edinburgh |
5.10 |
|
Sheffield |
5.34 |
|
Ipswich |
5.95 |
|
Leicester |
6.26 |
|
Coventry |
6.98 |
|
Cardiff |
7.07 |
|
Liverpool |
7.67 |
|
Luton |
7.80 |
|
Glasgow |
8.62 |
|
Birmingham |
8.70 |
|
Middlesbrough |
10.33 |
|
Stoke-on-Trent |
11.20 |
|
Bradford |
15.05 |
|
Wolverhampton |
19.07 |
|
Sunderland |
37.76 |
|
The Wirral |
49.82 |
|
Hull |
53.55 |