Woah, weโre half-way through 2025 already. The phrase “There are decades where nothing happens and there are weeks where decades happen” seems very appropriate so far this year.
While temperatures have soared this month, sadly there are few signs of the job market really heating up any time soon. We hope Andyโs audio update below, along with a graph that summarises the wider UK recruitment market, goes some way to help you understand where the market is at and how to navigate it.
The wider UK Recruitment Market, 2019 to 2025
As mentioned in our update, you can see the huge dip during Covid that was followed by the hiring frenzy of 2021/22. The period since 2023 is the longest sustained downturn in the market for over 25 years.
