Occupation Profile
Milton Keynes' employment profile indicates the types of role filled by our workforce. It reveals that the majority of the labour force is employed in professional, managerial or technical positions.
The table below summarises data available up to 2007. It shows the occupational profile of Milton Keynes is a close match for the profiles of the South East and Great Britain as a whole.
Table 3 - Occupation Profile
| Milton Keynes (Numbers) | Milton Keynes (%) | South East (%) | Great Britain (%) | |
| Professional/managerial and technical | 54,900 | 43.8 | 47.4 | 42.9 |
| Administrative/skilled trades | 28,900 | 23 | 22.4 | 22.5 |
| Personal service/sales/customer service | 16,700 | 13.3 | 14.7 | 15.6 |
| elementary/ process,plant and machine operatives | 24800 | 19.8 | 15.4 | 18.6 |
| Source: Annual Population Survey 2007 (ONS). | ||||
- Over 4 in 10 of the resident workforce are employed in professional, managerial or skilled positions
- Just under a quarter are employed in administrative or skilled trade positions
- 1 in 8 are employed in personal service, sales or customer service positions
- 1 in 8 are employed in operative or elementary positions
Last updated January 2010
