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06/29/2026

UK pay awards held flat in May 2026: how to negotiate salary

If you are building up to a pay conversation in the second half of 2026, the backdrop has shifted in a way that is easy to miss. Pay awards held flat through May 2026, according to predictions issued by Brightmine and reported by Personnel Today, ...

06/29/2026

6 min

1 in 5 candidates reject offers over employer reputation

Around one in five job candidates now walk away from a role after receiving an offer, citing what they have read, heard, or discovered about the employer behind it. For UK talent acquisition leaders, that figure is not a brand-team curiosity: it ...

06/28/2026

7 min

Wales bucks UK FDI decline: what DBT's 75-project figure means for Welsh employers and job-seekers

On 23 June, the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) published its annual foreign direct investment statistics, and Wales produced the standout result: 75 foreign investment projects landed in Wales in 2025-26, generating more than 1,500 new ...

06/23/2026

6 min

Returnships are shrinking: Career Returners and CIPD show the UK reality

If you are planning a return to work after a career break, the structured on-ramp you had in mind may already be shorter than it was twelve months ago. Returnship programmes, the paid, time-limited placements that offered retraining, peer cohorts ...

06/23/2026

8 min

UK AI talent gap reaches 160,000 roles: Skilled Worker visa rules and the domestic reskilling case

If you are a junior developer in the UK refreshing job boards this month, you are not imagining the thinning listings. New analysis from Robert Walters and Native Teams projects that UK demand for AI professionals will approach 300,000 roles by ...

06/23/2026

6 min

A decade after Brexit: what the labour data shows in Leave areas

Ebbw Vale cast more Leave ballots per head than any other constituency in Wales in 2016, even as EU structural funds underwrote the town's most visible symbol of revival: a railway station built on the footprint of the old steelworks, which ...

06/22/2026

6 min

UK private-sector pay growth slows to 2.9%

Private-sector pay growth in the United Kingdom has slipped to its softest reading in more than five years, while the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee voted on 18 June 2026 to hold Bank Rate at 3.75%. Taken together, the two data ...

06/22/2026

8 min

EU Pay Transparency Directive: a practical guide for UK workers at multinationals

If you work for a UK-headquartered company that also employs people in the EU, or you are weighing up an offer from one, the way salaries are advertised and discussed is shifting under your feet. The EU Pay Transparency Directive (Directive ...

06/22/2026

5 min

Insolvency Service data: 281 May collapses set construction HR's planning agenda

Construction business insolvencies in England and Wales fell by nearly a third in May 2026, according to monthly figures published by the Insolvency Service and reported by Construction News . The headline improvement is real, but it lands in a ...

06/22/2026

5 min

UK vacancies down 4.2% to 707,000: use ASHE, not the headline

UK job vacancies fell to 707,000 in the March to May 2026 quarter, the lowest reading since February to April 2021, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The figure lands below pre-pandemic levels and arrives in the same ...

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