Government24 June 202613 reads

New OBR Chair

The Chancellor has announced Professor Jonathan Haskel as the preferred candidate for the Chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility. Professor Haskel is a CBE and has been nominated for the role. The Office for Budget Responsibility is responsible for providing independent analysis of the UK's public finances. This nomination is a key appointment for the public sector.

Public-sector hiring right now

GovJobs is tracking 11,336 open public-sector vacancies today, 6,557 of them added in the past seven days. Across the adverts that publish a salary, the median advertised starting figure is £32,909.

The organisations recruiting most heavily right now are Ministry of Justice (198), Highland Council (195), Leicestershire County Council (172) and East Sussex County Council (126).

Geographically the roles cluster in Scotland (1,715), North West (1,634), South East (1,210), London (1,127).

Whatever happens at policy level, the roles below are what is actually open today. Applications are always made on the official employer site, not on GovJobs.

These figures are counted from the GovJobs index at the time you loaded this page, not from official statistics, and they change daily. They are our own analysis and are not part of the announcement summarised above.

Summarised by GovJobs from GOV.UK, under the Open Government Licence (OGL v3). Drafted with AI from the official source material.

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