Featured Reports

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Salary and Recruiting Trends guides


Access the latest Hays Salary & Recruiting Trends digital guide to find out what attracts and keeps professionals in their roles and what trends are most likely to impact your workplace in the next 12 months.

New insights available: Hays Salary & Recruiting Trends Guide 2025

This year’s Hays Salary & Recruiting Trends guide deep dives into the workplace challenges and opportunities impacting both employers and employees.

Access our digital guide to discover the findings from our research of almost 11,000 professionals, including what employees really want from their employer, how to attract and retain talent and what trends are most likely to impact your workplace.

We’ve also recently added our Employment Trends – 2025 Spring Update, to provide you with up-to-date insights about the current employment market.

  • Tech Contractor Day Rate Guide 2025 - Launch Webinar

    Join us on 2nd July at 10am for the official launch of our 2025 Tech Contractor Day Rate Guide. In this exclusive webinar, our expert panel will explore how organisations can attract and retain top tech contractor talent in today’s competitive market.

  • Procurement Salary Guide

    Based on our 2024 survey findings from nearly 5,000 professionals working in procurement, the CIPS Salary Guide, in partnership with Hays, shines a light on the procurement trends that are shaping the future of the function.

Discover the latest workplace wellbeing insights


Explore the key challenges employers face when engendering positive wellbeing, and key strategies organisations can take to successfully embed wellbeing into their culture.

  • Most employers recognise the business case for employee wellbeing – yet 68% don’t measure the effectiveness of their wellbeing initiatives.  

    Our report explores insights from over 3,600 professionals and employers across the UK on how wellbeing is shaping the future of work. Discover the current state of workplace wellbeing, the most valued wellbeing initiatives, and how organisations can better support their people. 

    The report uncovers: 

    • How wellbeing is shaping employee attraction, engagement and retention
    • Current wellbeing strategies and implementation challenges
    • Recommendations to build a lasting culture of wellbeing

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RPO Playbook: Realise your potential for smarter, more efficient hiring

Facing recruitment challenges? Whether it's ongoing issues, high-volume hiring, or project-based needs, our guide provides the essential insights to help you make informed decisions about Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO).

In the guide, we'll explore:

  • What RPO involves and how it works
  • Who RPO benefits and how
  • The different RPO models available
  • How to select the right RPO provider

Managed Service Programmes (MSP) Guide: Optimise your contingent workforce

Our in-depth MSP guide, tailored around a unique core value framework, provides flexible solutions for maximising the potential of your contingent workforce while mitigating risk.

Explore challenges such as:

  • Poor integration with existing systems
  • Inability to source the necessary skills
  • Clouded workforce visibility
  • Complex regulations and contingent labour laws
  • Consolidating and analysing data from disparate sources

Beyond MSP: Moving towards a Total Workforce Model

Discover how leading organisations are breaking down barriers between permanent and contingent workers to create a unified, efficient workforce.

Our comprehensive guide provides strategic insights for workforce and project planning and best practices for optimising your technology stack.

Our Beyond MSP Guide includes:

  • Workforce and project planning insights
  • Tips for harmonising a wider set of sourcing methods
  • Overview of Services Procurement and SOW agreements
  • How to integrate resources quickly and compliantly

The Workforce of the Future: Navigating the skills disruption

Our new Workforce of the Future report is available now, and contains the insights you need to bridge the skills gap effectively.

Download it now to discover the following:

  • The availability of skills for different industries
  • Locations with the most promising talent pipelines
  • Emerging talent networks to watch out for in the future
  • Actionable advice for leveraging our insights

How strategic spending can make public sector budgets work harder

Discover a more strategic approach to public sector workforce management by downloading our whitepaper today.

Download today to discover:

  • A rundown of the roadblocks the sector faces when it comes to workforce management
  • Exclusive data insights from over 3,000 public sector professionals
  • Strategic recommendations for making your recruitment budgets work harder and go further
     

  • Tech Talent Explorer 2025

    Built from talent market analytics and insights from nearly 10,000 IT professionals across 32 countries, our interactive guide explores where to find the right tech talent and how much they’ll cost, motivations of tech professionals and which skills are critical for a future-ready workforce.

  • Cyber Security Report

    Hays has released the Global Cyber Security Report 2024, with input from over 1,000 cyber security leaders worldwide. Discover how other organisations are investing in their defence, as well as their challenges and solutions in hiring and retaining talent.

  • Future of Work Report

    Navigate complex workplace trends, adapt to inflation, AI impact, and workforce productivity. Shape an informed workforce strategy for tomorrow. Access the report now!

A formula for success: Building tomorrow's finance function

Discover how AI, data analytics, and economic shifts are transforming the finance function. Get expert insights and strategic guidance.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Report


In the 2024 Hays Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Report, we take a closer look at how capturing this data can help you build a more diverse workforce, plus tips on how to level up your DE&I strategies.

Unlock your guide to securing diverse talent

61% of professionals say they actively look for an organisation’s DE&I policy when researching a potential employer – are organisations doing enough to promote their diversity efforts? 

The answers to this and more can be found in Hays’ 2024 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Report, now available for you to access. 

 

We've generated over £1m in social value!

Download our annual Social Impact Report for a full overview of our social and environmental impact in the UK and Ireland.

What Workers Want reports


Based on insights from nearly 11,900 professionals, our latest What Workers Want Report reveals what candidates value most when exploring new opportunities - from workplace culture and flexibility to career growth and compensation. Use these findings to refine your talent strategy and attract top talent.

What Workers Want 2024:

What Workers Want When Applying for Jobs report

Our highly anticipated 2024 What Workers Want report is now available for you to access. Discover what almost 11,900 professionals have to say about what makes them more likely to apply for a job as well as what deters them.

You’ll also find out what matters most to different age groups when applying for jobs, the impact of AI on recruitment and how to gather more diversity data during the application process to further your DE&I initiatives. 

  • What Workers Want 2023: Different ways of working

    With the world of work constantly changing, it’s more important than ever to understand how to best support employees whichever working approach your organisation follows.

  • What Workers Want 2023: Working with AI

    Take a closer look at how rapidly evolving artificial intelligence is set to change the way we work and how employers can best support their staff in making the most of AI tools.

  • What Workers Want 2023:
    Older workers

    Find out what attracts and keeps professionals over the age of 50 in a role. We also examine topics such as ageism, flexible working, benefits and more.
     

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