Labour Market Information (LMI) can be an extremely powerful tool, giving you a clear view of what is happening in the jobs market.

• LMI can help you to make career decisions, providing information about pay levels, job security and local opportunities.
• LMI will help you to identify the most useful skills to be developing as well as the skills gaps reported by local employers.
• LMI covers different sectors, occupations, the opportunities that are on the increase as well as those in decline.

Put simply, LMI can enable you to understand how your chosen field functions, breathes and grows. Armed with this information, you can start to make realistic plans and decisions to benefit you now but to also prepare you to benefit from future trends.

Welcome to the Careerometer - the tool that lets you compare the average wages and working hours of up to three jobs in England.

The widget can be used to explore and compare key information about occupations to support the process of identifying potential careers. The Careerometer widget provides access to a selection of headline data relating to pay, weekly hours of work and future employment prospects. The data is organised by occupation: simply type in the title of the job you are interested in and the widget provides a series of options from which you can select the most relevant to you.