The graph illustrates the number of academic jobs in five fields of humanities and social sciences from 2012 to 2014.
Overall, in a three-year span, the number of jobs related to English was the highest of all, whereas sociology constituted the lowest. Despite remaining at the top, English-related jobs annually decreased, contrary to those of communication and sociology.
In 2012, the field consisting of the most academic jobs was English with a number of 1200, which was nearly threefold more than that of Sociology. History and Philosophy both accounted for the same number of just under 800 whereas that of Communication was 600 jobs.
Between 2012 and 2014, the figures for Communication and Sociology both saw a slight increase until reaching approximately 800 and 600 jobs, respectively. However, History and English experienced a gradual drop in academic job numbers. Until 2014, History-related jobs fell from second place to the bottom and English-related occupations fell from 1200 to 900. Philosophy was the only field that saw a fluctuation in the number of academic jobs each year. Its number fell to 500 in 2013 but improved the next year with 600 occupations.
