No one enjoys hunting for a job, and with recent figures showing more than 1.8 million people in the UK were out of work in the last three months of 2025, competition for roles is hotter than ever. Statistics released this week show the rate of unemployment in the UK is 5.2 per cent, the highest since January 2021, when the world was in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Outside of the pandemic era, this is the highest figure since autumn 2015.