Revealed: The West Midlands has the Highest Percentage of Filled Kickstart Roles
Since the Kickstart Scheme ended in March 2022, SmallBusinessPrices.co.uk, therefore, wanted to reflect on the scheme and analyse how well it went from a regional, national, sector-specific and age-related perspective.
SmallBusinessPrices.co.uk investigated the percentage of available Kickstart job roles that have been filled by UK region:
- Great Britain (Total): 68.00%
- England: 67.45%
- East Midlands: 72.86%
- East of England: 64.44
- London: 62.94%
- North East: 71.82%
- North West: 67.67%
- South East: 65.77%
- South West: 69.29%
- West Midlands: 73.33%
- Yorkshire and The Humber: 70.53%
- Scotland: 73.68%
- Wales: 65.00%
They also looked at the most popular sectors regarding the Kickstart Scheme. The sectors allocated the most jobs were Administration at 57,350, followed by Retail and Sales at 34,970.
The full list of sectors can be found in the table below:
Finally, they explored the most popular ages in percentage to take part in the Kickstart Scheme, which were 22 and 23 at 19%. The least common ages to take part in the Kickstart Scheme were under 18 and 25, both at less than 1%.
