Relocating to Essex - Guide to Working and Living in Essex
Jobs in Essex
Essex has a highly productive, fast growing economy with a dynamic business community where citizens enjoy higher salaries and low unemployment rates in comparison with many other parts of the UK.
Essex is home to almost 54,000 businesses, offering around 623,500 jobs. The county hosts some of the most famous and globally recognised companies in the world, which include Glaxo Smith Kline, Amstrad, BT, Marconi Communications, Ford and BAE Systems.
Business in Essex is dominated by the service sector, which accounts for 70% of the county's total value added. Industry accounts for 28%, and agriculture for 2%. The county’s economic activity is divided into two areas. The southern area is largely given over to industry, leaving the majority of the land elsewhere to be used for agriculture. The county has a rich history of innovation and entrepreneurship and is home to an increasing number of early stage businesses, world leading company’s entrepreneurs.
Local educational establishments including, one of the UK’s leading academic institutions The University of Essex in Colchester, Anglia Ruskin University and Writtle College also offer expertise in science, engineering and technology, which make the county a breeding ground of technological innovation, inspirational creativity and talent
Essex benefits from its close proximity to London in terms of the jobs the world class city can offer and the spending potential of the local population.
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Living in Essex
Essex’s 1,300 square miles and 1.4 million people stretch from Constable Country to the Thames Estuary, from the dynamic M11 corridor to the traditional seaside resorts of Clacton and Walton. They encompass England’s oldest recorded town in Colchester and two of its newest in Basildon and Harlow. Along with Chelmsford, the county town, these three towns are the major population centres.
Adjoining London to the south west and East Anglia to the north, Essex is of immense strategic importance. In the south it is one of the country’s key growth areas in Thames Gateway. In the North east, the country’s major port to northern Europe, Harwich. In the west is Stansted Airport, an international gateway to London and the rest of the country.
Essex is the second most populated county in England; accounting for a quarter of the population of the East of England, yet almost 75% of its land area is agricultural. The rural peace of the scattered settlements in mid and north Essex contrasts with the bustling conurbations to the south. The south east of the county has the highest concentration of people, with one third of a million people living in an area of 40 square miles.Time Appointments are a recruitment agency in Suffolk. We have a wide range of vacancies throughout Essex and East Anglia including insurance jobs, IT jobs, sales and marketing jobs, finance jobs and much more.