ECONOMY
Issue #483
11 Jan 2026
One of the problems of spending too much time at the frontier, is that you can mistake the leading edge as representative of the whole. This is why this salary trends report from TotalJobs is so important - analysis of 21 million job postings over the past 5 years, to assess change over time on salary, compensation, candidate expectations, sectoral growth / decline, regional growth / decline - over the bulk of the UK job market, not just the AI bit. UK recruiters need to download this. PS: I’m going to be interviewing Christina Langer, Fellow of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab on TotalJobs Salary Strategy Bootcamp on the 22nd January - register here as we go through the implications of the salary benchmark for recruiters.