Using standard International Labour Organisation (ILO) criteria, an estimated 2,825,500 persons were in employment in Q3 2025, up 1.1% (30,600) from 2,794,800 in Q3 2024.
The increase of 30,600 (+1.1%) in employment is composed of increases of 17,200 (+1.2%) for males and 13,400 (+1.0%) for females in the year to Q3 2025.
The employment rate for those aged 15-64 was 74.7% in Q3 2025 compared to 75.3% in Q3 2024 and 74.2% in Q3 2023. In Q3 2025, the employment rate for males aged 15-64 years was 78.5%, compared to 70.9% for females. See PxStat table QLF18.
See Monthly Estimates of Payroll Employees using Administrative Data Sources outputs for employment estimates based on administrative data for employees.
The economic sectors that saw the largest year-on-year increases in employment in Q3 2025 were:
Breaking these increases down to NACE division (2-digit level), the year-on-year increase seen in Transportation & Storage was primarily driven by increases in division 52 Warehousing & Support Activities for Transportation (+10,100) and division 49 Land transport (+5,300). The largest divisional increases within Industry (B-E) were in 21 Manufacture of Basic Pharmaceutical Products and 32 Other Manufacturing (both +10,100). See PxStat table QES01.
The largest decrease in employment by economic sector in Q2 2025 was observed in:
More than 6 in 10 of those in employment in Q3 2025 stated that they never work at home (1,828,300).
Of the 987,800 people who reported that they work from home at least some of the time in Q3 2025, 557,800 said that they usually (more than half the time) work from home, down from a peak of 774,300 in Q2 2021.
There were 430,000 people who sometimes (at least one hour in the reference period) worked from home in Q3 2025, up from 400,500 in Q3 2024. See PxStat table QES20.
The estimated total number of hours worked per week in Q3 2025 stood at 86.5 million hours, up by 0.5 million hours or 0.6% on Q3 2024, and up 3.0 million hours (+3.5%) on Q3 2023. See Figure 2.3.
On a seasonally adjusted basis, the numbers in employment in Q3 2025 stood at 2,812,800 after a rise of 1,900 (+0.1%) from the previous quarter. This follows on from a seasonally adjusted quarter-on-quarter increase in employment of 400 (<0.1%) in Q2 2025.
The seasonally adjusted number of males in employment was down by 1,700 (-0.2%) over the quarter to 1,486,600 in Q3 2025, while the corresponding number for females was up 5,400 (+0.4%) to 1,325,900 over the same period. See PxStat table QLF03.
See Monthly Estimates of Payroll Employees using Administrative Data Sources outputs for seasonally adjusted employment estimates based on administrative data for employees.
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