#workforce-growth

#workforce-growth

having almost trebled since 2021 to 83,700, according to an analysis of more than 400 occupations tracked by the Office for National Statistics. The analysis was conducted by managed security services provider Socura, which claimed this means there are now more cyber professionals than there are architects, bricklayers, farm workers, armed forces officers and vets - and there is now one cyber security pro for every 68 businesses in the country, up from one per 196 just five years ago.

According to a new report from the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), the number of in-house counsel in the United States has been consistently growing at a far higher rate than the number of lawyers working in either private practice or government. The report, which analyzed data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' annual Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics report, finds that the in-house counsel population rose by almost 90% between 2008 and 2024, from 78,000 to 145,000.