Edinburgh Factsheet

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Economy

  • Average Weekly Workplace Earnings (£) 2014 556.6 (9/63)
  • Employment Rate (%) 2014 73.5 (22/62)
  • GVA per Worker 2014 54,895.71 (16/62)
  • Population 2014 492,700 (13/63)
  • Private Sector Jobs 2014 223,400 (10/62)
  • Total jobs 2014 321,100 (9/62)

Graduate qualifications and wages

  • Graduate wages (£) 2014 22,370 (33/63)
  • Proportion of all Russell Group graduates with a 1st or 2.1 (%) 2014 1.77 (7/63)
  • Proportion of all UK graduates with a 1st or 2.1 (%) 2014 1.2 (11/63)
  • Working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 degree (%) 2014 64.23 (52/63)
  • Working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 from a non Russell Group university (%) 2014 43.27 (60/63)
  • Working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 from a Russell Group university (%) 2014 20.97 (9/63)
  • Working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree (%) 2014 35.77 (12/63)
  • Working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree from a non Russell Group university (%) 2014 27.97 (21/63)
  • Working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree from a Russell Group university (%) 2014 7.8 (18/63)

Graduate retention and loss

  • Graduate gain 2014 3,045 (24/63)
  • Graduate loss (%) 2014 66.02 (43/49)
  • Graduate retention rate (%) 2014 42.25 (7/43)
  • Proportion of all UK working graduates (%) 2014 1.37 (10/63)
  • Proportion of all UK working graduates that moved for work (%) 2014 1.17 (8/63)
  • Proportion of all working graduates with a 2.2, 3rd or unclassified degree that moved for work (%) 2014 1.28 (8/63)
  • Proportion of all working Oxbridge graduates that moved for work (%) 2014 0.67 (9/63)
  • Proportion of UK working graduates with a 1st or 2.1 that moved for work (%) 2014 1.03 (9/63)
  • Working graduates who moved to the city to study (%) 2014 31.84 (12/48)
  • Working graduates who neither studied or grew up in the city (%) 2014 35.22 (39/63)
  • Working graduates who studied and grew up in the city (%) 2014 18.93 (25/48)
  • Working graduates who studied elsewhere but grew up in the city (%) 2014 14.01 (56/63)

Graduates working by occupation level

  • Working graduates in high-skilled occupations (%) 2014 74.43 (52/63)
  • Working graduates in low-skilled occupations (%) 2014 13.8 (9/63)
  • Working graduates in medium-skilled occupations (%) 2014 11.78 (19/63)

Graduates working by sector

  • Working graduates in construction, extraction, logistics or utilities sectors (%) 2014 3.82 (28/63)
  • Working graduates in the KIBS sector (%) 2014 25.63 (2/63)
  • Working graduates in the Manufacturing sector (%) 2014 2.09 (59/63)
  • Working graduates in the other private services sector (%) 2014 29.48 (11/63)
  • Working graduates in the publicly funded services sector (%) 2014 38.98 (58/63)