Scotland's Labour Market Insights: October 2025
Insights from a range of labour market data sources for Scotland, including employment, unemployment and economic inactivity estimates.
Part of
Further Labour Market Information
We will continue to review the content of this publication for future releases, focussing on the main points of interest.
For further information relating to the labour market in Scotland, please find below a table which includes other Scottish Government labour market statistics publications.
Table 1: Table of Scottish Government Labour Market Statistics publications
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Publication |
Link to publication |
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Labour Market Trends |
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Labour Market Statistics for 16 to 24 year olds: Scotland and the United Kingdom[1] |
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Quarterly Public Sector Employment in Scotland Statistics |
Public Sector Employment in Scotland Statistics for 2nd Quarter 2025 - gov.scot |
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Annual survey of hours and earnings |
Annual survey of hours and earnings: 2025 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) |
For more in depth economic analysis and insight on the Scottish economy as a whole, please see the latest Scottish Government Economic briefs and bulletins.
Figure 15: Scottish Government Labour Market Statistics publications
Infographic showing Scottish Government Labour Market Statistics publications, frequency of each release and sources of data
[1] Note that we have decided to postpone further iterations of the Labour Market Statistics for 16 to 24 year olds publication while we undertake our quality assessment of the APS. The headline 16 to 24 year old estimates will be included in our Labour Market Insights publication and will still be available from nomis and the ONS Labour Market Statistics for regions of the UK publication.
Contact
For enquiries about this publication please contact:
Labour Market Statistics,
Office of the Chief Economic Adviser
E-mail: LMStats@gov.scot
For general enquiries about Scottish Government statistics please contact:
Office of the Chief Statistician
E-mail: statistics.enquiries@gov.scot