List of largest United Kingdom employers

This is a list of largest United Kingdom employers. There are four main kinds of employer,

Public sector employers

Partial statistics for public bodies are available from the Office for National Statistics.[1]

Employer

est. Sector Employees
NHS (England) 1945 Health 1,400,000
NHS Scotland 1948 Health 160,000
British Army 1660 Military 125,430[2]
Department of Work and Pensions 2001 Welfare 111,000[3]
HM Revenue & Customs 2005 Taxation 76,890[4]
NHS Wales 1946 Healthcare 72,000
Ministry of Justice 2007 Law 68,670
Ministry of Defence 1940 Military 65,000
Metropolitan Police Service 1829 Police 50,000 (approx.)
Royal Air Force 1918 Military 37,200[5]
Network Rail 2002 Transport 34,000
Tata Steel 2017 Steel Industry 26,000
BBC 1927 Media 23,000
Home Office 1782 Security, immigration, etc. 25,850
Scottish Government 1999 Devolved government 17,000
Department for Transport 2002 Transport 17,640
Welsh Government 1999 Devolved government 5,682
Parliament of the United Kingdom 1707 Political representation 1,475

Public listed company employers

Statistics are available on an ad hoc basis from public company annual reports.[6]

Currently Royal Mail, G4S, Tesco and Compass Group are the largest plc employers.

Private company employers

Statistics on staff numbers were compiled in the Sunday Times "Top Track 100" of private companies for 2012.[7] The three largest private employers in that list are John Lewis Partnership, Swire Group and Alliance Boots.

See also

Notes

  1. ONS, Public Sector Employment, Q3 2012 (12 December 2012)
  2. British Army (Regular and Army Reserve)
  3. Includes "temporary and casual" employees.
  4. Includes "temporary and casual" employees.
  5. Regular and RAuxAF
  6. nb, calculations differ depending on the company's subjective perception of who counts as an "employee". See UK labour law.
  7. See Fast Track 100 Archived 2013-05-11 at the Wayback Machine.' (24 June 2012) Sunday Times
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