Career Coaching
in Liverpool

Employment Landscape

Liverpool’s job market remains uneven, with growth in sectors like life sciences and clean energy contrasting with contractions in creative and financial services. The life sciences cluster around Speke and Leasowe is strong, driven by firms such as Bristol Myers Squibb expanding their local lab presence, even as AstraZeneca’s £450 million vaccine facility expansion was scrapped after government funding was reduced. Meanwhile the closure of Avalanche Studios’ Liverpool studio resulted in 31 laid‑off roles, highlighting fragility in the local games development scene. Large institutions such as Lloyds are cutting hundreds of roles in customer service and fraud in their Liverpool centre as part of a wider digitization strategy. At the same time major redevelopment projects like Everton’s new £500 million stadium at Bramley‑Moore Dock and the growing Liverpool Waters regeneration signal opportunity in construction, infrastructure and tourism support services, but these are long‑term drivers rather than immediate sources of widespread hiring. Unemployment runs noticeably above regional and national averages, which job seekers will confront through stronger competition and few easy wins.

Dominant Industries

Typical Roles

Hiring Patterns

Hiring activity is strongest in life sciences and emerging clean energy infrastructure, where public‑private investment is still flowing. The creative and financial services sectors are more cautious, with visible retrenchments in gaming and banking operations. Recruitment remains selective and skills gaps persist in technical and construction roles.

"In Liverpool right now, the jobs are there—but they are concentrated in high‑investment science, clean energy, infrastructure and logistics, while other sectors are cutting back or holding steady—and that means job searching here often means targeting those pockets rather than broad opportunity."