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(10) Top Companies 2019 - Where the UK Wants to Work Now - LinkedIn
(10) Top Companies 2019 - Where the UK Wants to Work Now - LinkedIn
Katie Carroll
Managing Editor, Daily News, Americas & UK at 408 articles Follow
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The 2019 LinkedIn Top Companies list reveals the 25 companies where UK
professionals want to work – and stick around once they’re in – now.
Every year, our editors and data scientists parse billions of actions taken by LinkedIn
members around the world to uncover the companies that are attracting the most attention
from jobseekers and then hanging on to that talent. The data-driven approach looks at what
members are doing – not just saying – in their search for fulfilling careers. The result of that
data is Top Companies, our 4th annual ranking of the most sought-after companies today.
As always, we analyse UK
members’ anonymised actions
across four main pillars: interest in
the company, engagement with the
company’s employees, job
demand and employee retention.
(We exclude LinkedIn and
LinkedIn’s parent company,
Microsoft, from all LinkedIn Lists.
You can dig into the details of our
methodology at the bottom of the
article.)
Company insights, such as skills and top locations, are sourced from LinkedIn Talent
Insights and reflect only employees on LinkedIn. We use headcounts provided by the
company whenever possible. More details below.
Amazon is the parent company of Whole Foods Market, Audible, Zappos and others.
Headcount in the UK: 27,500 | Top UK locations: London, Luton, Manchester | Fastest-
growing skills: Solution Architecture, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloud Computing |
Job functions with the most new hires: Operations, Engineering, Sales | What may
surprise you: Amazon doesn’t use the brain teasers often employed in tech company
interviews, telling LinkedIn the tricky questions are “unreliable when it comes to predicting
a candidate’s success”.
Read more: Nearly 90% of UK shoppers use Amazon. | See jobs at Amazon | See
people you may know at Amazon
See jobs at JPMorgan Chase & Co. | See people you may know at JPMorgan Chase
& Co.
Read more: Sainsbury's and Asda vow £1bn price cuts. | See jobs at Sainsbury's | See
people you may know at Sainsbury's
Read more: Here’s how to ace an interview at GSK. | See jobs at GSK | See people
you may know at GSK
Read more: Why Bupa embraces the career break. | See jobs at Bupa | See people
you may know at Bupa
Read more: Barclays scores women’s football deal. | See jobs at Barclays | See
people you may know at Barclays
Global headcount: 36,600 | Top UK locations: London, Harrow, Kingston upon Thames |
Fastest-growing skills: Mathematics, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Machine Learning |
Job functions with the most new hires: Finance, Business Development, Information
Technology | What may surprise you: Goldman Sachs recently made headlines for relaxing
its dress code to keep in step with its predominantly millennial and Gen Z workforce. The
bank also pledges to ensure half of its entry-level recruits are women.
Read more: Goldman doubles down on diversity. | See jobs at Goldman Sachs | See
people you may know at Goldman Sachs
Headcount in the UK: 19,000 | Top UK locations: London, Leeds, Newcastle upon Tyne |
Fastest-growing skills: Feasibility Studies, Project Estimation, Subcontracting | Job
functions with the most new hires: Operations, Engineering, Information Technology |
What may surprise you: Engie's transformation — it is divesting from polluting energies
and investing in cleaner tech — has gotten jobseekers' attention: The company says it
received 300,000 CVs in 2016 and ... 550,000 in 2018.
Headcount in the UK: 11,500 | Top UK locations: Luton, London, Redhill | Fastest-
growing skills: B737, Piloting, Flight Safety | Job functions with the most new hires:
Operations, Engineering, Information Technology | What may surprise you: TUI has
struggled in the wake of last summer’s heatwave and the recent grounding of Boeing 737
MAX jets – which account for about 10% of the company’s fleet. But TUI’s business is
bolstered by its hotel and cruise-ship units.
Read more: Here’s how to ace an interview at TUI. | See jobs at TUI | See people you
may know at TUI
Headcount in the UK: 15,000 | Top UK locations: Norwich, London, York | Fastest-
growing skills: Financial Advisory, Banking, HTML | Job functions with the most new
hires: Finance, Information Technology, Engineering | What may surprise you: Aviva has
a “first day of school” policy for parents, where they can take a half-day to drop off or pick
up their children when they start a new school.
Read more: Here’s how Aviva prioritises work-life balance. | See jobs at Aviva | See
people you may know at Aviva
Read more: Asda named second-largest UK grocer. | See jobs at Asda | See people
you may know at Asda
Headcount in the UK: 5,000 | Top UK locations: London, Reading, Hemel Hempstead |
Fastest-growing skills: Data Management, Stakeholder Management, Immunology | Job
functions with the most new hires: Sales, Marketing, Operations | What may surprise
you: Employees at the J&J’s Wokingham Pinewood campus can schedule “walking
meetings”, where they walk a half-mile trail in the nearby forest.
See jobs at Johnson & Johnson | See people you may know at Johnson & Johnson
Associated British Foods is the parent company of Primark, Twinings, Ovaltine, and
others.
See more about Associated British Foods | See people you may know at Associated
British Foods
Read more: M&S bags £750m Ocado tie-up. | See jobs at Marks and Spencer | See
people you may know at Marks and Spencer
Hear more: Google chef and employee #53 shares his story. | See jobs at Alphabet |
See people you may know at Alphabet
See jobs at Travis Perkins | See people you may know at Travis Perkins
Global headcount: 105,800 | Top UK locations: London, Ipswich, Newcastle upon Tyne |
Fastest-growing skills: Digital Marketing, HTML, Data Analysis | Job functions with the
most new hires: Engineering, Sales, Information Technology | What may surprise you:
BT is working to develop tech literacy through its Barefoot Computing Project, training
primary schools to teach computer science skills. More than 50,000 teachers have
participated in 3,000 workshops across the UK.
Read more: The experience you need to work at Centrica. | See jobs at Centrica | See
people you may know at Centrica
Headcount in the UK: 7,300 | Top UK locations: London, Bristol, Kingston upon Thames
| Fastest-growing skills: Arcgis Products, Matlab, SketchUp | Job functions with the most
new hires: Engineering, Operations, Program and Project Management | What may
surprise you: Now under SNC-Lavalin’s umbrella, Atkins – which already has a footprint
across Europe, North America, and beyond — is looking to expand to new regions.
Read more: How to ace an interview at Atkins. | See jobs at Atkins | See people you
may know at Atkins
Share the full list and your thoughts on this year's Top Companies
list using #LinkedInTopCompanies.
Methodology
Company insights were sourced from LinkedIn Talent Insights and include the
parent company and majority-owned subsidiaries. Data reflects aggregated public
member data from active LinkedIn profiles in the relevant country and includes full-
time employee profiles associated with the parent company and majority-owned
subsidiaries on LinkedIn. We exclude members who identify as part-time or
contractors. Headcounts are provided by the companies directly or listed publicly,
unless otherwise noted with an asterisk. Those headcounts are based on LinkedIn
data. The insights reflect a 12-month time period looking back from February 2019.
Reported by: Katie Carroll, Orlando Crowcroft, Jessica Hartogs and Isabelle Roughol
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