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The jobs marketplace continued to slow, with 9,000 less vacancies successful the 3 months to September, authoritative figures show.
It is the 39th consecutive play wherever vacancy numbers person dropped.
Having less occupation openings tin mean it is harder to find work.
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There was besides a astonishment summation successful the unemployment rate, up to 4.8% from 4.7% a period earlier, chiefly driven by younger people, arsenic a grounds fig of radical implicit 65 are successful work, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.
Economists polled by Reuters anticipated nary alteration successful the jobless rate.
The ONS, however, has advised caution erstwhile interpreting changes successful the monthly unemployment complaint and occupation vacancy numbers owed to concerns implicit the reliability of the figures.
Further signs of a slowing labour marketplace were seen successful the autumn of yearly backstage assemblage wage maturation to the lowest complaint successful astir 4 years - 4.4%.
Public assemblage wage maturation accrued much quickly, astatine 6%, arsenic immoderate nationalist assemblage wage rises were awarded earlier than they were past year.
Average play net roseate much than expected by economists astatine 5% and besides much than antecedently thought aft a revision to past month's figures (4.8%).
Also published by the ONS was information connected concern action, which showed August had the fewest moving days mislaid to onslaught enactment successful a azygous period for astir six years.
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