{"id":277251,"date":"2025-11-11T08:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T08:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/277251\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T08:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T08:41:09","slug":"uk-unemployment-rate-rises-to-5-as-jobs-market-weakens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/277251\/","title":{"rendered":"UK unemployment rate rises to 5% as jobs market weakens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liz McKeown, director of economic statistics for the ONS, said: &#8220;Taken together, these figures point to a weakening labour market. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Meanwhile the unemployment rate is up in the latest quarter to a post pandemic high. The number of job vacancies, however, remains broadly unchanged.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the three months to September 2025, the number of payrolled employees also fell by 109,000 (0.4%) over a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ONS data also shows nearly 1.7m people are claiming unemployment benefits, a slight decrease on the figure from a year ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Responding to the latest statistics, Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden said: &#8220;Over 329,000 more people have moved into work this year already, but today&#8217;s figures are exactly why we&#8217;re stepping up our plan to get Britain working.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Broadly, the number of job vacancies have remained unchanged, with about 723,000 between August and October 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ONS has said the unemployment rate should be treated with caution and it is taking additional steps to address concerns about the quality of the data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liz McKeown, director of economic statistics for the ONS, said: &#8220;Taken together, these figures point to a weakening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-277251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}