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Payrolled employees, England's regions and the UK's nations

Latest month is an early estimate

Employees paid through PAYE in England's nine regions, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, with the UK, in the latest two months, from HM Revenue and Customs' Real Time Information, seasonally adjusted. HMRC does not publish England.

Payrolled employees, UK

30,280,860

Sep 2026 · early estimate

Verified against source, 28 October 2026, 12:51 UTC
Payrolled employees, England's regions and the UK's nations
  • Sep 2026
  • Aug 2026
01m2m3m4m5mLondon4,352,0184,355,616South East4,273,6134,272,207North West3,318,4483,315,195East of England2,903,0192,900,435West Midlands2,621,0092,618,409South West2,506,7272,504,132Scotland2,445,9142,444,416Yorkshire and The Humber2,398,2542,398,748East Midlands2,209,8652,208,843Wales1,309,8051,309,058North East1,121,5561,121,745Northern Ireland820,631819,408

Source: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Data table

13 rows

AreaSep 2026Aug 2026
London4,352,0184,355,616
South East4,273,6134,272,207
North West3,318,4483,315,195
East of England2,903,0192,900,435
West Midlands2,621,0092,618,409
South West2,506,7272,504,132
Scotland2,445,9142,444,416
Yorkshire and The Humber2,398,2542,398,748
East Midlands2,209,8652,208,843
Wales1,309,8051,309,058
North East1,121,5561,121,745
Northern Ireland820,631819,408
United Kingdom30,280,86030,268,214

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Source and licence

Publisher
Office for National Statistics
Check it yourself
https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/datasets/realtimeinformationstatisticsreferencetableseasonallyadjusted
Licence
Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Retrieved
28 October 2026, 12:39 UTC
Raw files fetched

Verification

Verified against source, 28 October 2026, 12:51 UTC Run at 28 October 2026, 12:51 UTC; 26 of 26 figures matched the live source.

ResultCheckDetail
PassProvenance recordedOffice for National Statistics; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-10-28T12:39:06Z; 3 raw file(s)
PassRaw files match recorded SHA-2563 of 3 files intact
PassRe-parsing raw files reproduces figures26 of 26 figures and the headline reproduced
PassFigures are finite numbers26 figures, 0 invalid
PassLive source matches every figure26 of 26 figures match exactly after downloading 3 source file(s) again (3 byte-identical); the headline matches
PassONS edition is currentthe current edition counts at 2026-09-30, 28 days before retrieval (limit 120)
PassSheet 1's UK figures agree2 of 2 figures match column 'Payrolled employees' of sheet '1. Payrolled employees (UK)' in the stored workbook
PassThe hub's payrolled-employees-by-nation agrees8 of 8 figures match payrolled-employees-by-nation's record (the same workbook's nations, read by that dataset)
PassThe twelve areas add up to the UKin 2 of 2 cases the twelve areas, each rounded separately, sum to the whole within 12 (0 exactly)
PassSource page answershttps://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/datasets/realtimeinformationstatisticsreferencetableseasonallyadjusted – HTTP 200

Notes

  • HMRC publishes the nine English regions but not England as a whole, so England is not shown. Counts people on payrolls by where they live, so someone with two jobs counts once; the self-employed are not included. The latest month is an early estimate from incomplete returns, revised a month later.