Glasgow & the Glasgow Job Market
Glasgow, with a population of around 580,000, is Scotland's largest city and is the commercial capital of Scotland. It is the UK's largest retail centre after London and is easily accessible by road, rail and air. Glasgow is one of Europe's top 20 financial centres and is home to many of Scotland's leading businesses as well as one of the worlds to 10 cities to visit for tourists, according to the renowned ‘Frommers’ Travel Guide.
The job market in Glasgow has proven to be relatively resilient over the last couple of years and, overall, Glasgow's jobs base has grown at nearly twice the rate for Scotland and Britain over the past 10 years. Glasgow lies at the heart of one of the UK's principal metropolitan areas with a population of around 1.8m. Glasgow is also Scotland's largest centre of jobs and economic activity and over the past decade has seen employment in the city rise to over 400,000 with Glasgow's economy out-performing that of the European economy and the average growth rate of European city regions.
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