*Note: Y axis shows total small business employment (number of jobs). Value at the end of the dotted line represents number of jobs if pre-pandemic growth trend continued. All values are rounded to nearest hundred and seasonally adjusted. Total UK sample: 26,000 small businesses running payroll with QuickBooks. This anonymised data is used to create aggregated data outputs which are normalised against official statistics to reflect the general population of small businesses, not the QuickBooks customer base. It is not a reflection of Intuit’s business. Sectors are defined by the UK Standard Industrial Classification (SIC). For details and definitions, visit https://quickbooks.intuit.com/r/small-business-data/index/methodology/