UK Labour Market and Productivity Data
Explore labour market, SME performance and productivity insights from 1000s of UK SMEs. Published by Sage UK, cebr and Smart Data Foundry.
Taking the pulse of the UK's SMEs
SMEs (businesses with fewer than 250 employees) make up the vast majority of the UK's businesses - 99%, according to ONS. Our Sage Pulse reports are built on anonymous data from hundreds of thousands of these economically critical businesses and cover productivity, profitability, workforce headcount and payroll data.
Sage SME Performance Pulse is a quarterly publication, in collaboration with cebr, which tracks metrics such as productivity, profitability, revenue, late payments and expenditure.
Sage SME Workforce Pulse tracks headcount, earnings and take-home pay and is published monthly.
These novel insights, delivered as part of our Data for Good partnership with Sage UK, are helping to inform monetary policy, labour market development and business policy.
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Sage SME Performance Pulse
Sage SME Performance Pulse is a collaboration between Smart Data Foundry, Sage UK and cebr and is released quarterly.
By tracking key SME performance metrics such as productivity, revenue, profitability, late payments and expenditure, it enables regular comparisons between financial quarters and UK regions.
The report is produced using a sample of 150,000+ businesses with a maximum monthly revenue figure of £1 million.
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Findings from the Sage Small Business Tracker Q4 2025
Sage SME Workforce Pulse
Sage SME Workforce Pulse is a collaboration between Smart Data Foundry, Sage UK and cebr and is released monthly.
It tracks earnings growth, the effect of inflation on earnings, as well as headcount growth - both with regional and sector breakdowns.
These monthly insights show how SMEs are responding to economic pressures and opportunities, and the impact this is having on the workforce and average take home pay across regions and sectors.
The report is produced using a sample of 150,000+ businesses with a maximum monthly revenue figure of £1 million.
Sage SME Workforce Pulse
Sage UK SMB Workforce Tracker - January 2026
Why data for good matters
Data for Good is our commitment to help small and medium businesses thrive. Our partnership with Smart Data Foundry help us turn anonymised data into powerful insights, enabling better decision making by stakeholders in business and policy and helping us to meet our commitment to SMBs.
- Name
- Will Taggart
- Role
- Data for Good Lead, Sage UK
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