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Occupations

Barnsley has a workforce with a diverse range of skills. There is a large labour pool of skilled manual workers as well as people with professional, technical and managerial skills:

Occupation	Barnsley (numbers)	Barnsley (%)	South Yorkshire (number)	South Yorkshire (%)
Managers and senior officials	11,300	12.0	67,100	12.0
Professional occupations	7,100	7.5	57,000	10.2
Associate professional & technical	11,900	12.7	73,200	13.1
Administrative & secretarial	10,300	10.9	62,500	11.2
Skilled trades occupations	13,100	13.9	73,100	13.1
Sales and customer service occs	6,600	7.1	41,900	7.5
Process plant & machine operatives	8,600	9.2	50,600	9.1
Elementary occupations	11,800	12.5	56,800	10.2
Elementary occupations	13,400	14.2	73,000	13.1

Source: ONS annual population survey (Jul 2005 - Jun 2006)