Hard-to-fill roles.
Which roles are taken down and re-advertised?
3.3% of UK employers' new adverts since 2026-09-02 re-advertised a role they had taken down for more than two weeks (averaged across employers; n=1,317 employers).
Sample: 1,317 employers · source: UK employers' careers pages · data to 18 October 2026
By job function
| Function | Figure | Sample (employers) | In words |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operations & Logistics | 6.2% | 187 | Operations & Logistics: 6.2% of employers' new adverts re-advertised a role taken down for more than two weeks (n=187 employers). |
| Other | 5.7% | 253 | Other: 5.7% of employers' new adverts re-advertised a role taken down for more than two weeks (n=253 employers). |
| Admin & Office | 5.3% | 161 | Admin & Office: 5.3% of employers' new adverts re-advertised a role taken down for more than two weeks (n=161 employers). |
| Engineering | 4.8% | 325 | Engineering: 4.8% of employers' new adverts re-advertised a role taken down for more than two weeks (n=325 employers). |
| Management & Executive | 4.4% | 319 | Management & Executive: 4.4% of employers' new adverts re-advertised a role taken down for more than two weeks (n=319 employers). |
| Sales | 4.1% | 348 | Sales: 4.1% of employers' new adverts re-advertised a role taken down for more than two weeks (n=348 employers). |
| Finance & Accounting | 3.5% | 178 | Finance & Accounting: 3.5% of employers' new adverts re-advertised a role taken down for more than two weeks (n=178 employers). |
| IT & Software | 3.3% | 319 | IT & Software: 3.3% of employers' new adverts re-advertised a role taken down for more than two weeks (n=319 employers). |
By sector
| Sector | Figure | Sample (employers) | In words |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finance & insurance | 4.9% | 85 | Finance & insurance: 4.9% of employers' new adverts re-advertised a role taken down for more than two weeks (n=85 employers). |
| Administrative & support services | 4.9% | 91 | Administrative & support services: 4.9% of employers' new adverts re-advertised a role taken down for more than two weeks (n=91 employers). |
| Wholesale & retail | 4.7% | 112 | Wholesale & retail: 4.7% of employers' new adverts re-advertised a role taken down for more than two weeks (n=112 employers). |
| Information & communication | 2.9% | 223 | Information & communication: 2.9% of employers' new adverts re-advertised a role taken down for more than two weeks (n=223 employers). |
| Professional, scientific & technical | 2.3% | 207 | Professional, scientific & technical: 2.3% of employers' new adverts re-advertised a role taken down for more than two weeks (n=207 employers). |
How this is measured
Window: the last 90 days, or from 15 days after our event log began if that is later (value_json.since), so every new advert counted could have been a repost. Segment rows need at least 10 reposts and no employer supplying over a quarter of the value. A repost is a role that comes back after being gone for more than 14 days (a return sooner is a missed crawl, not a re-advertised role, and is left out entirely); each (employer, title, day) counts once, so one role listed on several pages is one advert. Roles are titles on UK employers' own careers pages; a role advertised abroad is not filtered out (adverts are, roles are not). career_watch_events job_new with reason "(reposted)" within the window — the crawler logs this when a title that went away reappears on the same page. value = reposts as % of all job_new events; value_json.top lists the most re-advertised titles (raw counts). Employer-weighted: each employer's share of its own adverts is computed, then averaged across employers, so every employer counts once however many adverts it posts; n = employers (min n applies to employers), value_json.adverts = adverts behind them.
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ProdReady Recruitment (2026). Hard-to-fill roles. Data to 18 October 2026. https://ProdReadyRecruitment.com/research/hard_to_fill
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