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Self-employment occupation groups in the UK 2017

Number of those self-employed in the United Kingdom in 2017, by major occupational group (1,000s)

The data displays a distribution of all self-employed workers in the UK in 2017, by major occupational group. The number of the total self-employed workforce that are working in skilled trade occupations exceeds 1.2 million workers, making skilled trade occupations the main occupational group of the self-employed workforce in the UK in 2017.

Skilled trades	1212
Managers, directors & senior officials	817
Professional occupations	733
Associate professional & technical	753
Process, plant & machine operatives	385
Caring, leisure & other services	359
Elementary occupations	274
Administrative & secretarial	157
Sales & customer services	87

Self-employment occupation groups in the UK 2017

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