The summer job has staged a comeback this year thanks to the hot weather and a packed calendar of events such as the men’s football World Cup, new UK figures show. Recent months have seen a significant increase in seasonal hiring in sectors such as hospitality and tourism compared with summer 2025, said the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC), which runs a monthly labour market tracker. It said that this time last year “there was concern about the death of the great British summer job”, but added: “This is the summer when the seasonal summer jobs market started to come back.
However, this year there has been a double-digit rise in hospitality and tourism job advertisements over the summer period. But there was a slight dip in the number of active job postings and new job postings in July this year when compared with the previous month. Maxine Bligh, the REC’s chief membership and innovation officer, said: “It is not totally straightforward for young people to earn wages just yet, with many entry-level jobs still not bouncing back as much as we would like.
There were just under 1.67m active job postings in the UK in July this year, which is up 7.7% on a year earlier but a 2.6% drop from June.
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