Supply

This section shows where universities are outputting the most graduates entering work in the digital sector. The chart shows the total number of graduates created by the local authority district of their university, rather than where they ultimately located after graduation.

Graduates entering work into the digital sector by the local authority district of their university

2,000 or more

1,000

2,000 or more

Source: HESA: Table 19 - Standard industrial classification of graduates entering work in the UK by provider
Layout: Local Authority Districts 2025 Open Innovations (MIT)
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

About this data

We filtered the original dataset to include:

All UK providers
2022/23 academic year
All types of permanent address
All types of "Work type marker"
All levels of qualification obtained
All modes of former study
Only the "Information and communication" and "Professional, scientific and technical activities" standard industrial classifications (SIC)

We then mapped the number of graduates by provider, to number of graduates by postcode, using the postcode of each UK Learning Provider Reference Number (UKPRN). We then mapped each postcode to a local authority using an ONS lookup. Finally, we grouped by local authority and counted the total for each local authority.

Some UK Learning Providers do not have an entry in the UKPRN to postcode lookup. After including 16 manually researched postcodes, we were able to assign 98% of the graduates (39,375) to local authorities. This leaves 820 unassigned from the source data. These are split across more than 100 providers, with no single (un-mapped) provider having more than 25 graduates in the two SICs of interest.