UKCS Offshore Workforce Demographics Report 2013

UKCS OFFSHORE WORKFORCE DEMOGRAPHICS REPORT 2013

The west of Shetland has seen the largest increase of 117 per cent in terms of the total number of workers travelling to the sector from 2006 to 2012. There has been a 116.5 and a 133.3 per cent increase in the number of males and females travelling to the sector, respectively. The northern North Sea has seen the second largest increase from 2006 to 2012; in particular, there has been a large increase of 53.6 per cent in the number of female employees travelling to this sector.

Figure 8: Difference in the Geographic Distribution of the Total Workforce between 2006 and 2012

%Difference, 2006 to 2012

2012

2006

Sectors

No. of Males

No. of Females

No. of Males

No. of Females

No. of Males

No. of Females

Central North Sea 21,805 903

23,818 1,071

9.2

18.6

Northern North Sea 6,255

181

7,673

278

22.7

53.6

Southern North Sea 5,522

208

5,733

189

3.8

-9.1

814

30

783

39

-3.8

30

Morecambe Bay 3

West of Shetland 1,146

63

2,481 147

116.5

133.3

Multiple Sectors

12,959 385

14,356 414

10.8

7.5

3 Earliest Morecambe Bay figures recorded are from 2009 and not 2006

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