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Occupation-coded new online adverts in 30-day retained specialist window.
ROLES · ROLE WEATHER · E12000005
West Midlands
West Midlands carries 43 covered advertisement observations in the retained window beside 3,003,902 official workforce jobs. The measures remain separate and do not by themselves establish a shortage or cause.
CLASSIFIED NEW ADVERTS—official monthly online-advert series
ONE-MONTH DIRECTIONsource gapagainst the previous published month
TWELVE-MONTH DIRECTIONsource gapwhere the comparison point exists
OFFICIAL WORKFORCE JOBS3,003,902March 2026
THE REGIONAL SPECIMEN
Two skies remain deliberately separate.
The bright field describes newly appearing, occupation-coded online adverts. The outer field describes filled jobs. Their difference is not automatically a shortage, surplus or cause.
3,003,902
March 2026; a separate official series.
LARGEST CURRENT OCCUPATION FIELDS
01Management & governance1502Work winning & pre-construction1403Writing & authorship804Coordination & operations305Adjacent enablers206Pursuits, pitches & frameworks1| SOC | Occupation | New online adverts |
|---|---|---|
| management-governance | Management & governance | 15 |
| work-winning-preconstruction | Work winning & pre-construction | 14 |
| writing-authorship | Writing & authorship | 8 |
| coordination-operations | Coordination & operations | 3 |
| adjacent-enablers | Adjacent enablers | 2 |
| pursuits-frameworks | Pursuits, pitches & frameworks | 1 |
THE REGIONAL BOUNDARY
A location field is not a judgement about its people.
Named official series, disclosed source month and records carrying usable regional and occupation coding.
Online advertisements do not include every route into work, and recent occupation coding is incomplete.
Regional differences are descriptive. Causal claims require separate evidence and review.
RETURN TO THE COMPLETE FIELD
The map shows where requests gather. It does not explain why until evidence can carry the explanation.