Labour Market Information LABOURSouth Gloucestershire is part of Gloucestershire, an area that includes Kingswood, Bradley Stoke, Yate, Thornbury, Stoke Gifford, Patchway and Filton. The main employers are the local authority with 9,500 people and the Ministry of Defence Headquarters for Defence Procurement and the Naval Support CommandMARKET with 7,000 employees. Other key employers include Airbus, Rolls Royce and the Royal Mail, which dominates the Filton- Patchway area of South Gloucestershire. Friends Provident and Hewlett Packard also have major offices in nearby Stoke Gifford. INFO Many employers also operate in the heavily developed area between the northern edge of Bristol and the M5 motorway. This includes the Cribbs Causeway shopping centre.

East of Patchway are the Aztec West and Almondsbury business parks either side of the A38, extending to Bradley Stoke and the M4/M5 Almondsbury Interchange. Well known employers with sites in this area include EE and the RAC. EMPLOYMENT FIGURES

143,600 people are currently in employment in South Gloucestershire.

126,600 people are employees 15,900 are self employed (Taken from NOMIS Oct 2016 – Sept 2017 – individuals 16 years +)

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE LARGE EMPLOYERS

TOP INDUSTRIES

The top industries that are currently recruiting in South Gloucestershire are:

Health and social care (human health) Retail trade Social work Residential care

Food and beverage services Public administration and defence; social security Education Estate agency Specialised construction activities Professional, scientific and technical activities

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