United Kingdom Unemployment Rate

Country: United Kingdom, GBP
Importance:
Medium
Sector: Labor
Last release
14 Oct 2025 06:00 GMT
Actual
4.8%
Forecast
4.3%
Previous
4.7%
Next release
19 May 2026 06:00 GMT
Actual
Coming in 21 days
Forecast
4.9%
Previous
4.8%
Date (GMT)
Reference
Actual
Forecast
11 Sept 2018
Jul 2018
4.0%
3.9%
14 Aug 2018
Jun 2018
4.0%
4.2%
17 Jul 2018
May 2018
4.2%
4.2%
12 Jun 2018
Apr 2018
4.2%
4.1%
15 May 2018
Mar 2018
4.2%
4.1%
17 Apr 2018
Feb 2018
4.2%
4.1%
21 Mar 2018
Jan 2018
4.3%
4.4%
21 Feb 2018
Dec 2017
4.4%
4.3%
24 Jan 2018
Nov 2017
4.3%
4.3%
13 Dec 2017
Oct 2017
4.3%
4.3%
15 Nov 2017
Sep 2017
4.3%
4.3%
18 Oct 2017
Aug 2017
4.3%
4.2%
13 Sept 2017
Jul 2017
4.3%
4.3%
16 Aug 2017
Jun 2017
4.4%
4.5%
12 Jul 2017
May 2017
4.5%
4.6%
14 Jun 2017
Apr 2017
4.6%
17 May 2017
Mar 2017
4.6%
12 Apr 2017
Feb 2017
4.7%
15 Mar 2017
Jan 2017
4.7%
15 Feb 2017
Dec 2016
4.8%

Unemployment Rate reflects the share of currently unemployed residents among the total civilian labor force. Unemployed people are those at the age of 16 and older, without a job who have been actively seeking work in the past four weeks or are waiting to start work.

The indicator growth can have affect GBP quotes negatively.

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