Overall weekly hours worked in the UK 2000-2024

Published by D. Clark, Feb 25, 2025

The overall weekly hours of work in the United Kingdom plummeted from over one billion hours in the first quarter of January 2020 to just 848 million in the second quarter of 2020, which was the lowest level seen since the middle of 1994. In the most recent quarter, the overall weekly hours of work amounted to over  1.07 billion hours.

Overall weekly hours worked for all employees in the United Kingdom from 1st quarter 2000 to 4th quarter 2024 (in million hours worked)

CharacteristicOverall weekly hours of work in millions
Q4 2024 1,077.8
Q3 2024 1,084.2
Q2 2024 1,073
Q1 2024 1,067.1
Q4 2023 1,055.1
Q3 2023 1,048.8
Q2 2023 1,055.9
Q1 2023 1,057.7
Q4 2022 1,049.7
Q3 2022 1,045.5
Q2 2022 1,047.2
Q1 2022 1,042.1
Q4 2021 1,036.1
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Created with Highcharts 7.2.2Overall weekly hours of work in millionsQ1 2000Q3 2000Q1 2001Q3 2001Q1 2002Q3 2002Q1 2003Q3 2003Q1 2004Q3 2004Q1 2005Q3 2005Q1 2006Q3 2006Q1 2007Q3 2007Q1 2008Q3 2008Q1 2009Q3 2009Q1 2010Q3 2010Q1 2011Q3 2011Q1 2012Q3 2012Q1 2013Q3 2013Q1 2014Q3 2014Q1 2015Q3 2015Q1 2016Q3 2016Q1 2017Q3 2017Q1 2018Q3 2018Q1 2019Q3 2019Q1 2020Q3 2020Q1 2021Q3 2021Q1 2022Q3 2022Q1 2023Q3 2023Q1 2024Q3 2024
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February 2025

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Q1 2000 to Q4 2024

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This statistic is using original data from the Office for National Statistics and includes copyright material from © Crown, licensed under the Open Government License v3.0.

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