UK job adverts soar in April as business confidence booms
A waitress carries drinks in a Manchester beer garden on 12 April as England eased Covid restrictions. (Photo by Anthony Devlin/Getty Images)
The number of new job postings is soaring as the UK tiptoes its way out of the pandemic, according to new data from the Recruitment & Employment Confederation.
During the week of 5-11 April, a further 140,000 new job openings were recorded, giving a total of 1.37 million active adverts in the UK.
This is on top a further 181,000 in the previous week, which was the highest weekly figure since the Covid crisis began.