How many LinkedIn users are there in The United Kingdom. How much do they share?
How does this relate to the working population?

How many people change jobs, how many new accounts are created on a day?

What are the biggest companies in The United Kingdom on LinkedIn?

A lot of interesting stats en facts about the LinkedIn usage in The United Kingdom.

LinkedIn usage data and statistics for The United Kingdom - August 2019

Facts about The United Kingdom:

 

Number of habitants: 66,959,016 people

(according to World of Meters)

 

Capital: London

 

Working population: 33,870,286 people.

 

In The United Kingdom there are 25,606,939 registered LinkedIn accounts. That means that 75.6% of the working population has a LinkedIn account.

 

The United Kingdom ranks number 3 in the relative usage over 44 European countries.

 

Over the past year, the number of LinkedIn users in The United Kingdom has grown with 8.3%.

LinkedIn member accounts in The United Kingdom

Absolute number of users


This graph shows the absolute number of registered members on LinkedIn for The United Kingdom.

Users VS Working population


This graph shows how much percent of the working population for The United Kingdom has a LinkedIn profile.

25606939
People have a LinkedIn profile in The United Kingdom.
75.6 %
of the working population has a LinkedIn profile in The United Kingdom.

FACT


According to LinkedIn data, 75.6% of the working population has a profile on LinkedIn in The United Kingdom.


38.2% of the total population has a profile on LinkedIn.

Economic graph

The United Kingdom has a working population of 33,870,286 people. 75.6% of them have a profile on LinkedIn.

3.% of the people works in Construction. 2.9% works in Retail and 2.7% has a job in Information Technology and Services.


Construction
775,461

Retail
742,207

Information Technology and Services
693,043

The most occurring functions in The United Kingdom are:

 

Function Group

Number

% of members

Operations 2,367,970 9.2%
Business Development 1,910,977 7.5%
Sales 1,218,849 4.8%

FACT


According to LinkedIn data, on average there are 1,404 job changes a day on LinkedIn in The United Kingdom.

Growth numbers for The United Kingdom

The LinkedIn population of The United Kingdom has grown over the past year with 8.3%.

 

Looking over the past three months there has been a growth of 3.3%.

 

Over the past year, there were 162,988 new members each month.

 

Meaning 37,613 per week, 5,359 per day, 223 per hour.

 

If The United Kingdom continues to grow at this speed, they will have 27,562,795 members by August 2020.

 

The United Kingdom ranks number 32 in Europe for growth.

FACT


Over the past year, there were 5,359 new accounts created on LinkedIn per day in The United Kingdom.

 


In last 3 months there were 3,123 new accounts created per day in The United Kingdom.

Active posting on LinkedIn

In The United Kingdom there are on average 1,199 updates posted per hour, 28,765 per day, 201,909 per week and 874,940 per month.

 

That means that 3.3% of the LinkedIn users in The United Kingdom actually posted an update on LinkedIn in August.

 

The United Kingdom ranks number 9 in Europe for active posting.

Active posting over time

FACT


In The United Kingdom there are 28,765 updates posted every day.

 


That equals 1199 updates an hour.

 


And 20. updates a minute.

Note

We have no data about the numbers of articles, likes and comments. This number only represents the times people create a new post on LinkedIn.

Biggest Employers on LinkedIn

2

HSBC

37,405 Employees on LinkedIn

1

NHS

165,918 Employees on LinkedIn

3

BT

33,533 Employees on LinkedIn

Company Pages

In The United Kingdom there are 961,804 registered Company Pages.

 

In August 2018 there were 4,457,512 registered Company Pages.

Number of registered Company Pages

Industry Percentage
Information Technology and Services 3.5%
Marketing and Advertising 3.1%
Financial Services 1.9%

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