A couple of in six jobs being marketed within the UK requires candidates to have the ability to drive, evaluation suggests.
Analysis by the RAC Basis reveals that within the first week of October 2023 a complete of 1,092,172 recruitment adverts had been posted on the job emptiness aggregator web site Adzuna.
Of the 1,092,172 ads, 189,608 (17.4%) explicitly or implicitly required these making use of to have a minimum of an ordinary driving licence as a result of the job was both:
- particularly for a driver,
- or required driving in the course of the course of labor,
- or a automobile was wanted to achieve work (as a result of a scarcity of alternate options).
The evaluation checked out information for a similar week in October within the eight years from 2016 to 2023, inclusive.
While the very best proportion of jobs requiring the power to drive was seen in 2020 on the top of the pandemic (120,190 out of 611,702, or 19.6%) the proportion for 2023 was nonetheless increased than in any of the 4 years pre-Covid.
Job adverts and driving necessities, 2016-2023 (first week of October in every year)
| 12 months | All Adzuna Adverts | ||
| Driving | Complete | Driving % | |
| 2016 | 178,535 | 1,173,630 | 15.2 |
| 2017 | 187,334 | 1,178,276 | 15.9 |
| 2018 | 182,840 | 1,141,802 | 16.0 |
| 2019 | 167,323 | 1,070,039 | 15.6 |
| 2020 | 120,190 | 611,702 | 19.6 |
| 2021 | 241,536 | 1,296,599 | 18.6 |
| 2022 | 185,792 | 1,083,525 | 17.1 |
| 2023 | 189,608 | 1,092,172 | 17.4 |
| Complete | 1,453,158 | 8,647,745 | 16.8 |
Utilizing particular occupation classes as outlined by the Workplace for Nationwide Statistics (ONS), the information revealed that the necessity to drive was, to a larger or lesser diploma, a requirement in all kinds of roles, for instance:
- 100% of driving instructors
- 67% of plumbers
- 59% of property brokers and auctioneers
- 34% of care employees and residential carers
The info contained adverts for 97% (398) of all occupations registered by the Workplace for Nationwide Statistics (ONS) within the UK labour market.
Prime occupations with driving as an specific or implicit requirement in job adverts (2023)
| Rank | Occupation(primarily based on Workplace for Nationwide Statistics classifications) | % of adverts for this occupation |
| 1 | Driving instructors | 100 |
| 2 | Massive items automobile drivers | 99.3 |
| 3 | Street transport drivers (not categorised elsewhere) | 97.9 |
| 4 | Supply drivers and couriers | 95.6 |
| 5 | Plumbers and heating and ventilating installers and repairers | 67.5 |
| 6 | Car technicians, mechanics and electricians | 64.4 |
| 7 | Property brokers and auctioneers | 58.5 |
| 8 | Car and components salespersons and advisers | 51 |
| 9 | Steel working manufacturing and upkeep fitters | 41.7 |
| 10 | Carpenters and joiners | 37.8 |
| 11 | Electricians and electrical fitters | 34 |
| 12 | Chartered surveyors | 34 |
| 13 | Care employees and residential carers | 33.9 |
| 14 | Social employees | 33.7 |
| 15 | Enterprise gross sales executives | 31.9 |
| 16 | Fork-lift truck drivers | 31.9 |
| 17 | Property, housing and property managers | 29.9 |
| 18 | Gross sales accounts and enterprise growth managers | 22.9 |
| 19 | Amount surveyors | 22.2 |
| 20 | Manufacturing managers and administrators in building | 21.9 |
| 21 | Civil engineers | 21 |
| 22 | IT person assist technicians | 13.3 |
| 23 | Warehouse operatives | 12.9 |
| 24 | Enterprise and monetary mission administration professionals | 11.3 |
| 25 | Gross sales and retail assistants | 11.1 |
| 26 | Human assets and industrial relations officers | 10.6 |
| 27 | Customer support occupations (not categorised elsewhere) | 10.6 |
| 28 | Promoting and advertising and marketing affiliate professionals | 10.3 |
| 29 | Different registered nursing professionals | 7.5 |
| 30 | Cooks | 7.3 |
The sectors least prone to require job candidates to have the power to drive had been: educating and schooling; tradition, media and sport; and secretarial and administrative.
Based on the ONS the typical price of a driving lesson is £35 per hour nevertheless they are often wherever between £20 and £60.
Steve Gooding, director of the RAC Basis, mentioned: “
Our analysis reveals that with regards to getting work a driving licence could be a essential qualification. Little marvel official figures present that about 45% of all driving exams performed throughout 2022-23 concerned candidates aged 20 or youthful.
“Regardless of the predictions of a post-pandemic work-from-home legacy the information means that with regards to driving as an employment qualification, issues at present look similar to what they did earlier than Covid struck.
“If something, the one in six headline determine underestimates the significance of having the ability to drive for roles in places, or with shift patterns, that make them inaccessible by public transport.
“A lot of these job adverts which checklist a driving requirement are in comparatively poorly-paid sectors, such because the caring career – one thing the chancellor ought to take note of when making selections that affect the price of motoring and which influence on those that are already struggling to pay for the transport they’ll’t do with out.
“It’s unsurprising that the proportion of employers searching for individuals to have the ability to drive reached a peak in the course of the pandemic, once we got here to totally recognize how key our truckers and supply drivers are to each day life.”
