The UK has more people on apprenticeships now than ever before! We delve into the latest government statistics to explore where they are working, what sectors and much more!

1. APPRENTICESHIP
STATS REPORT 2017
A Review of the UK appren?ces landscape as at 2016
and compared to 2015.

2. NEW APPRENTICESHIP STARTERS
509,400 INDIVIDUALS STARTED AN APPRENTICESHIP BETWEEN 2015 AND 2016
up 1.9% on previous year! and up 15.7% on 2013/2014!!
AGE SPLIT
18 AND UNDER
131,000 / 26%
+5,000 on 2015
One might be surprised by the high percentage of appren?ces that are aged 25 and over - a total of 44%. This might reflect the
need to adapt to the effects on jobs of ever-changing technology, trade, etc and the resul?ng need for lifelong learning.
19 TO 24
25 TO 34
35 TO 44 45 TO 59
60+
154,000 / 30%
-6,000 on 2015
103,000 / 20%
+5,000 on 2015
60,000 / 12%
+3,000 on 2015
58,000 / 11%
+2,000 on 2015
4,000 / 0.78%
+1,000 on 2015
19 to 24 was the only age
group to experience
a decline in starters
between 2015 and 2016.

3. NEW APPRENTICESHIP STARTERS
509,400 INDIVIDUALS STARTED AN APPRENTICESHIP BETWEEN 2015 AND 2016
up 1.9% on previous year! and up 15.7% on 2013/2014!!
Intermediate
(level 2)
STARTS BY LEVEL:
291,000 / 58%
(down 7,000 on 2015)
Advanced
(level 3)
191,000 / 38%
(up 9,000 on 2015)
Higher
(levels 4 to 7)
27,000 / 5%
(up 8,000 on 2015)

4. APPRENTICESHIP STARTS BY REGION IN ENGLAND
NORTH EAST: 38, 200
NORTH WEST:
YORKSHIRE & THE HUMBER:
EAST MIDLANDS:
WEST MIDLANDS:
EAST OF ENGLAND:
LONDON:
SOUTH EAST:
SOUTH WEST:
OTHER: 5400
80,820
65,290
63,520
60,910
54,160
48,080
46,650
46,280
up 8.5% on 2015
up 1.9% on 2015
up 1.5% on 2015
up 0.04% on 2015
down 0.5% on 2015
up 1.9% on 2015
up 1.6% on 2015
up 0.4% on 2015
up 5.2% on 2015
down 4% on 2015

5. SECTOR SPLIT
NOTE: Business Administra?on and Law represents almost 1/3 of all sectors but (along with Retail and Commercial Enterprise)
experienced a decline in 2015 to 2016.
Business,
Administra?on & Law:
141,000 (28%)
down 1,000 on 2015
Health, Public
Services & Care:
131,000 (26%)
up 1,000 on 2015
Retail and
Commercial Enterprise:
84,000 (16.7%)
down 6,000 on 2015
Engineering and
Manufacturing Tech:
77,000 (15.3%)
up 3,000 on 2015
Construc?on, Planning
and Build Environment:
21,000 (4.1%)
up 3,000 on 2015
Informa?on and
Communica?on tech:
16,000 (3.2%)
up 2,000 on 2015
Leisure, Travel
& Tourism:
15,000 (2.9%)
no change on 2015
Educa?on
and Training:
8,000 (1.6%)
up 1,000 on 2015
Agriculture, Hor?culture
& Animal Care:
8,000 (1.6%)
up 1,000 on 2015
Arts, Media
and Publishing:
1,000 (0.2%)
no change on 2015

6. TOTAL APPRENTICESHIPS
899,400 appren?ces on appren?ceships as at 2016. Highest since records began!!
of all appren?ces
are women
(down 0.1% on 2015)
of all appren?ces are white (the UK
popula?on as a whole is 86% white,
as per 2011 Census)
(down 0.3% on 2015)
89.4%
Individuals with learning disabili?es
make up 9.3% of all appren?ces
(up 0.2% on 2015)
This is high compared with
the percentage they form of
the total populaEon

7. PARTICIPATION BY
REGION IN ENGLAND:
The percentage figures in green above per region show that the northern regions of England all have a higher than
average density of apprentices than the southern regions of England (including London with the lowest density).
North East: 64,420
OF ALL
APPRENTICESHIPS
as compared with 4.8% of the
total popula?on in England 7.2%
South West: 92,230
OF ALL
APPRENTICESHIPS
as compared with 9.9% of the
total popula?on in England 10.3%
Other: 9,340
OF ALL
APPRENTICESHIPS 1%
North West: 2,530
OF ALL
APPRENTICESHIPS
as compared with 10.5% of the
total popula?on in England 15.7%
West Midlands: 108,760
OF ALL
APPRENTICESHIPS
as compared with 13.1% of the
total popula?on in England 12.1%
Yorkshire & The Humber: 109,750
OF ALL
APPRENTICESHIPS
as compared with 9.9% of the
total popula?on in England 12.2%
East Midlands: 85,150
OF ALL
APPRENTICESHIPS
as compared with 8.5% of
the total popula?on in
England
9.5%
East of England: 83,660
OF ALL
APPRENTICESHIPS
as compared with
11.0% of the total
popula?on in England
9.3%
London: 83,800
OF ALL
APPRENTICESHIPS
(region of the least
density of appren?ces).
Represen?ng 15.7% of
the popula?on
9.3%
South East: 119,240
OF ALL
APPRENTICESHIPS
compared with 16.4% of the total
popula?on in England 13.3%

8. Data Sources:
hhps://www.gov.uk/government/sta?s?cal-data-sets/fe-data-library-appren?ceships
hhp://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/SN06113
hhps://www.ons.gov.uk/census/2011census
PEOPLE COMPLETING AN APPRENTICESHIP
271,700
INDIVIDUALS SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED
AN APPRENTICESHIP BETWEEN 2015 AND 2016.
This is up from 260,900 between 2014 and 2015 /
an increase of 4.14%