- The sponsor register shows who holds a licence, not who is hiring now.
- Graduate surveys cover undergraduates only.
- Some figures are for kinds of work, not single jobs.
- Pay is published by region, not by town.
- Some advert months are estimated or withheld.
- Travel-to-work areas are estimates built from council areas.
Methods
How we work out which jobs your course leads to
Fixed rules over published data. No AI model is involved in your pathway.
Step 1: Find the course's subject
Your course title is matched to a national subject code.
Step 2: See where graduates work
Graduate outcome surveys show the kinds of work they go into.
Step 3: Turn kinds of work into jobs
Each kind of work is split into the jobs inside it.
Step 4: Score each job
By how often graduates do it and how close it is to the subject.
Step 5: Label the closest jobs
Up to 3 are main jobs; the rest of the top 8 are related, each with High, Medium or Low confidence.
Ranges
What a range means
A range shows the middle half of people: a quarter earn less than the left end, a quarter more than the right. Pay is rounded to £500 and monthly money to £10.
Pay is for the job in your region. Graduate pay is for undergraduates only, shown where at least 10 graduates answered and half responded.
Targets
How we check our own accuracy
Three checks, each against people labelling a sample by hand. Studies run February to March 2027. A result appears here only once a study has been run.
95%
Target
Matching employers to the sponsor register
95% of matches correct, checked on 500 matches we check by hand. Compared with matching on exact names alone.
Result: Not yet measured
100
Checked by hand
Linking courses to jobs
Checked against two people coding the same 100 new courses on their own. Compared with an official job coding tool, and national figures for graduates of each subject (broad job groups only).
Result: Not yet measured
200
Checked by hand
Estimating which jobs each sponsor hires for
Checked against 200 sponsors we label by hand. Compared with the national mix of sponsored jobs in the sponsor's sector.
Result: Not yet measured
Limits
What the data cannot tell you yet
We say so on the page wherever one of these applies. Data owners are credited on the data credits page.
Coverage
Where the figures cover
The whole UK: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Some figures are thinner for Northern Ireland, as listed below.
- Bus and train times are not available for Northern Ireland. Walking and cycling times there come from the straight-line distance.
- Rents in Northern Ireland are published for the country as a whole, not by council.
- Pay in Northern Ireland comes from Northern Ireland's own official pay figures, for the country as a whole. It withholds pay for most single jobs, so many jobs show “not published”, and its latest year can differ from Great Britain's.
- Travel-to-work areas are shared out from council-area figures by where postcodes lie, so their advert counts are an estimate.