Fact Service November 2021

Issue 47

More job ads specify vaccination

UK employers are increasingly requiring that job applicants should be vaccinated against Covid, an analysis of recruitment advertisements by jobs website Adzuna and reported in the Guardian newspaper has found.

According to Adzuna, the number of ads on its site specifying that applicants should be jabbed rose 189% between August and October. Of its total 1.2 million job advertised vacancies the number requiring vaccination increased from 805 in August to 2,161 in September and 2,324 in October, it stated.

Reportedly, the sectors with the highest proportion of job adverts mandating vaccination are in social care, at 2% of all positions, followed by healthcare and nursing at 0.9%, and charity jobs at 0.6%. Part-time roles, domestic help and cleaning jobs also featured.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/23/uk-employers-step-up-demand-for-workers-vaccinated-against-covid