Jobs in Scotland – Banking on the Public Sector
Posted: October 23rd, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Search | Tags: banking jobs, Jobs, jobs in scotland, public sector jobs, public sector jobs in scotland, scottish jobs | No Comments »Scotland’s Chief Statistician recently published an update on Public Sector Employment in Scotland and a quick review of the main points certainly makes interesting reading. The period of the research covers up to the end of ‘Q1 2009’.
Did you know that the public sector in Scotland accounts for 24.9% of all jobs in Scotland! An increase from 22.6% from as recently as Q1 2008. That’s a staggering 623,300 Scots working in the public sector.
Of this total, 81.7% of them work for public bodies which are under the control of the Scottish Government (the rest are under the control of the UK government). So, there’s no doubt who Scotland’s biggest employer is.
A key difference that’s played a part in this recent increase, relates to the massive upheaval in Scotland’s banking and financial sector. In effect, all those people working for RBS and LloydsTSB in Scotland now work for ‘public corporations’ – as we are their biggest shareholder. Hence, those same people now work in the ‘public sector’, according to government statistics. That’s around 44,000 new ‘public sector’ bankers, to you and me.
This continuing dominance of the public sector in Scotland’s economy also illustrates just how important the current decisions being made about investment in the public sector and future predictions of doom regarding job cuts across national and local government, really are.
However, if you’re looking for a job in Scotland in the current market – whether you’re in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen or Wick – with the current state of the ‘private sector’, the pull of the public sector is now stronger than ever.
Of course, you can view all local government jobs by simply clicking onto ‘search.co.uk/jobs’.