THE NHS, Dorset’s two big councils and banking giant JP Morgan were the employers posting the most job adverts in 2023, a report has revealed.

Dorset Local Enterprise Partnership’s (LEP) Labour Market and Skills for the third quarter of 2022 analysed job vacancies from the first nine months of the year.

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It found the employers advertising the most vacancies were in health, local government, finance JP Morgan, tourism and hospitality, education, manufacturing) and retail Including Tesco and Asda.

The top employers – together with the number of vacancies they advertised in the first nine months of 2022 – are as follows:

  • NHS 6,205
  • BCP Council 1,100
  • JP Morgan 1,022
  • Dorset Council 590
  • Bournemouth University 576
  • Bourne Leisure 507
  • Holt Engineering  472
  • Whitbread 361
  • Tesco 322
  • Colten Care 312
  • Vitality 272
  • Agincare Group 246
  • Hall & Woodhouse 241
  • RNLI 233
  • Ultra Group 201
  • Haven 184
  • Care UK Health and Social Care 168
  • Asda 158
  • Barchester Healthcare 157
  • Care South 151
  • Bournemouth and Poole College 150

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The jobs that were advertised most often – together with the number of vacancy postings – were as follows:

  • Care workers and home carers 4,304
  • Nurses 3,077
  • Sales related occupations 2,712
  • Other administrative occupations 2,708
  • Customer service occupations 2,292
  • Programmers and software development professionals 2,080
  • Kitchen and catering assistants 1,987
  • Chefs 1,650
  • Teaching assistants 1,387
  • Book-keepers, payroll managers and wages clerks 1,198
  • Cleaners and domestics 1,183
  • Managers and proprietors in other services 1,153
  • Teaching and other educational professionals 1,108
  • Human resources and industrial 958.