JobLabs Press Kit

Founder bio

Short (35 words):

Alex is a 12-year UK recruiter who has reviewed 40,000+ CVs across financial services, tech, and professional services. He founded JobLabs to publish insider hiring perspective on the UK job market.

Medium (80 words):

Alex spent 12 years on the hiring side of UK recruitment — reviewing more than 40,000 CVs, running interviews, and placing candidates across financial services, tech, professional services, and SaaS. After two years testing every AI tool in the job-search space with real candidate CVs, he founded JobLabs to publish honest insider hiring perspective: salary benchmarks, employment law guides, free interactive calculators, and open datasets for UK careers data — all CC BY 4.0 and updated each tax year.

Long (160 words):

Alex is a 12-year UK recruiter and founder of JobLabs.ai, a UK careers reference site that publishes salary benchmarks for 30 roles across 8 cities, employment law guides, free interactive calculators, and open datasets under CC BY 4.0. After spending more than a decade placing candidates at firms across financial services, tech, professional services and SaaS — and reviewing 40,000+ CVs — Alex started JobLabs because most UK careers content is written by people who have never hired anyone. He has hands-on experience with Workday, Greenhouse, Taleo, Lever and Recruitee ATS platforms, and personally tested 20+ AI job-search tools with real candidate CVs (not press demos). JobLabs publishes a weekly memo, three open datasets eligible for Google Dataset Search, and a developer API at /developers/ used by UK payroll software and HR tech tools. Press contact: hello@joblabs.ai.

Ready-to-quote facts & figures (UK 2026/27)

All figures sourced from gov.uk, HMRC, DWP, ONS, and recruiter placement data. Free to quote with attribution to JobLabs.

• UK 2026/27 Personal Allowance: £12,570 (frozen until 2028).
• UK Statutory Sick Pay 2026/27: £118.75/week. Day-1 entitlement from April 2026 (waiting days removed).
• UK Statutory Maternity Pay: 90% of average earnings for the first 6 weeks; £187.18/week (or 90% if lower) for weeks 7-39.
• UK Statutory Redundancy weekly cap (2026/27): £700/week, max £21,000 statutory total.
• UK National Living Wage from April 2026: £12.21/hour (age 21+).
• UK State Pension full new rate 2026/27: £230.25/week (£11,975.40/year).
• UK NI Employer rate from April 2025: 15% (up from 13.8%); secondary threshold lowered to £5,000.
• UK Marriage Allowance: £1,260 transferable, max £252 tax saving, backdate up to 4 years.
• UK 60% effective tax trap: kicks in between £100,000 and £125,140 due to Personal Allowance taper.
• UK Skilled Worker visa salary threshold: reviewed annually; current general threshold is £38,700.

Citable URLs (CC BY 4.0)

When citing JobLabs, link to the most specific URL. Suggested attribution: "JobLabs UK [topic] dataset, https://joblabs.ai/data/[name]/, licensed CC BY 4.0."

• Datasets:
• → UK Salaries 2026 dataset (JSON + CSV)
• → UK Statutory Rates 2026/27 dataset (JSON + CSV)
• → UK Tax Codes 2026/27 dataset (JSON + CSV)
• Master pillar guides:
• → UK Salary Guide 2026
• → UK Employment Law Guide 2026
• → UK Statutory Rates 2026/27
• → UK Redundancy Guide 2026
• Original research:
• → UK Hiring Report 2026

Methodology & sources

All UK statutory data sourced from gov.uk (HMRC, DWP, BEIS) and legislation.gov.uk. UK salary benchmarks built from publicly stated averages on Reed.co.uk, Indeed UK, LinkedIn Talent Insights, the 2025 Robert Walters Salary Survey, Hays UK Salary Guide, and ONS earnings data — cross-referenced against placements made in 2025 and early 2026. All datasets updated annually each April with the new tax year.

Editorial standards: /methodology/ · Author profile: /authors/alex/ · Public changelog: /changelog/.