The bar chart presents the quantity of UK students applying for jobs in education, retail, finance, and I.T. sectors after graduation in the years 2015 and 2025 and estimate for 2035.
On the whole, between 2015 and 2025, there was a downward trend in undergraduates applying for jobs Education and Retail, and an increase in Finance and I.T. These trends expected to continue to 2035.
Two sectors experienced decreasing application rates: Education and Retail. Retail was most popular sector in 2015 with 400 students. However, a sizeable drop occured, meaning that only 300 student applied in 2025. As a result, Retail went from the most popular sector to the second. The decrease is predicted to continue until 2035, which sees retail becoming the least favoured sector (around 160). Education followed a similar pattern, albeit at a less steep rate than Retail: it started at 300 students in 2015 before declining to just above 200 by 2025. Like Retail, it is forecast to have decreased by 2035 to around 175.
On the another hand, Finance and I.T. saw an increase in application rates. Finance was the second least popular in 2015 (250 students). However, by 2025 it had become the most popular, with over 350 applications. A further increase is happened by 2035, making it the most popular (450 students). The I.T. sector also icreased: between 2015 and 2025, it experienced an almost three-fold increase (50 to around 150). Even greater numerics are expected by 2035, resulting in I.T. becoming the second most popular sector with around 300 students.
