Active leisure and learning – UPDATED!  
Includes – sport and recreation, health and fitness, playwork, the outdoors, and the Caravan industry
Occupational examples – sports/community development officers, coaches, instructors, professional sports players, sports officials, personal trainers

Agriculture: land management and production; animal health and welfare; the environmental industries – UPDATED!  
This sector covers three broad areas:
1. Land management and production - agricultural crops, agricultural livestock, aquaculture, fencing, floristry, land-based engineering, production horticulture, trees and timber
2. Animal health and welfare - animal care, animal technology, equine, farriery, veterinary nursing
3. Environmental industries - environmental conservation, fisheries management, game and wildlife management, landscape

Arts and entertainment - updated and replaced by Creative and cultural industries

Audio visual industries – UPDATED! 
Includes – television industry and radio industry, film industry, other production, interactive media industry, computer games industry, photo imaging industry, and performers
Occupational examples – producer, researcher, broadcast journalist, launch director, continuity editor, signer, director, commissioning editor

Automotive  
Includes – automotive components, caravans, commercial vehicles, containers, motorcycles, motor vehicles, retail, distribution and maintenance, specialised vehicles, tractors, trailers; tyres
Occupational examples – design engineers, tool setters, mechanics, body makers, sales engineers, marketing managers

Banking and insurance  - updated and replaced by Financial services

Chemical, nuclear, oil and gas, petroleum and polymer industries – NEW!  
Includes – exploration and extraction of oil and gas, refining gas, storage and retail of petroleum based fuels, nuclear fuel, manufacturing and installation of signs
Occupational examples – petroleum engineers, petrol forecourt attendant, wellsite geologist, drilling engineer, mechanical, electrical and instrumentation maintenance Technicians

Clothing, footwear, textiles and servicing – UPDATED! 
Includes – Apparel manufacturing, Fashion design, Technical textiles, Knitting, lace and narrow fabrics, Carpets, Leather processing industry , Process yarns and fibres and weaving industries, Dry cleaning, laundry and textile servicing
Occupational examples – production manager, designer/garment technologist, buyer, stock controller, tailor/dressmaker, sewing machinist

Communications 
Includes – national post and courier activities, telecommunications, and maintenance of the network and transmission of radio and television programmes (see also IT and Telecoms for more up-to-date information on telecommunications)
Occupational examples – equipment wirer and assembler, installer of radio equipment in cars, mobile switching engineer, radio systems design engineer

Construction – UPDATED!  
Includes – site preparation, building of complete constructions, or parts thereof, and civil engineering, plus building installation and completion
Occupational examples – wood trades, managers, electricians, plumbers, bricklayers

Creative and cultural industries – UPDATED AND EXTENDED!
Includes – Advertising , Craft, Cultural Heritage, Design, Music, Visual arts (all visual art, including drawing painting, sculpture and installation art), Literary arts - (writers, critics and editors though it does not extend into publishing and newspapers), Performing arts (producers and directors, actors, choreographers, dancers, entertainers, opera, theatre, mime, street performance and all other aspects of creating, producing and staging performing arts)
Occupational examples – actors, fine artists, photographers, digital imagers, script-writers, artist managers, arts officers

Custodial care – updated and replaced by the Justice sector

Defence  
Includes – Naval Services, Royal Air Force, Army, Civil Service, Volunteer and Regular Reserves, Sponsored Reserve; UK Defence Industrym
Occupational examples – aircraft technicians, survival equipment fitter, tank crewman, diver, marine engineering mechanic

Early years education and childcare  
Includes – providers for early years education, childcare and playwork (for children from birth to eight years) such as: full day care; childminders; crèches; sessional care; out of school clubs and holiday playschemes; family centres; and nannies
Occupational examples – childminders, nursery assistants, pre-school and playgroup leaders, teaching/classroom assistants, learning support assistants

Education
Includes – public and private education at any level or for any profession 
Occupational examples – academic librarian, adult education tutor, educational psychologist, further education lecturer, primary school teacher, higher education lecturer, pre-school or nursery teacher

Energy and utilities
Includes – electricity, gas, waste management and water industries
Occupational examples – gas network operative, team leader service layer, technician, domestic gas service engineer, electricity distribution engineers

Engineering – UPDATED! 
Includes – motor vehicle manufacture, aircraft and spacecraft, ship and boat building and repair, electronic equipment, basic metals and products, mechanical equipment
Occupational examples – professional engineers, electrical engineers, programmers, electrical maintenance, sheet metal workers, pipe fitters, design and development engineers

Financial services - UPDATED!
Includes – Banking and finance (Central banking; Banks; Building societies; Financial leasing; Credit granting; Factoring; Mortgage finance; Investment trusts; Real estate investment trusts; Unit trusts; Security dealing; Venture and development capital, including private equity; Open-ended investment companies; and Property unit trusts); Insurance (Life insurance; Life reinsurance; Non-life reinsurance; Pension funding; and Non-life insurance);  and Auxiliary financial services (Administration of financial markets; Fund management activities; Security and commodity contracts dealing activities; Risk and damage evaluation; and Insurance agents and brokers)
Occupational examples – actuary, banking manager, chartered accountant, corporate treasurer, credit analyst, tax adviser

Food and drink manufacturing and processing – NEW! 
Includes – bakery, brewing and distilling, convenience foods, dairy, fresh produce, meat and poultry, milling and cereals, fish processing, soft drinks and water, sweets and confectionery
Occupational examples – baker, butcher, technical brewer, food technologist/scientist, packaging technologists, consumer scientist, wine merchant

Hair beauty and body art
Includes – beauty therapy salons, hairdressing salons, beauty therapy salons within other businesses, tattoo and piercing studios, barber shops
Occupational examples – nail technician, spa services, tattooist, salon assistance, beauty therapist, senior stylist

Health – UPDATED!
Includes – hospital activities, medical and dental practice activities, other human health activities, ambulance transport, complementary medicine
Occupational examples – nurse, nursing auxiliaries, medical practitioners, care assistants, paramedics, dental nurses, doctors, occupational therapists

Hospitality 
Includes – restaurants, pubs, clubs and bars, hotels, contract catering, hospitality services (which includes hospitality occupations in non-hospitality businesses e.g. catering staff in a hospital)
Occupational examples – hotel managers, catering managers, receptionists, bar staff, cleaners, porters, bar staff waiting staff, chefs, cooks

IT and telecoms – UPDATED!
Includes – IT industry, IT professionals, telecoms
Occupational examples – ICT managers, IT software professionals, computer engineers, database assistants, line repairers, cable jointers

Justice: custodial care, community justice and police – NEW!
Includes – policing and law enforcement, public prosecution, court services, custodial care, community justice
Occupational examples – police officers, police inspectors, prison officers, probation officers, solicitors, security guards, community officers, victim support

Languages across the sectors
Includes – all industries which offer opportunities to use language skills, this means all languages other than English such as modern foreign languages, community and heritage languages and British Sign Language
Occupational examples – interpreter, language teacher/trainer, translator, jobs where languages are used

Logistics – UPDATED! 
Includes – freight transport by road, storage and warehousing, activities of other transport agencies, national post and courier activities, scheduled and non-scheduled air transport, cargo handling
Occupational examples – postal workers, couriers, transport managers, warehouse operatives, supply chain managers, LGV drivers, forklift truck drivers

Manufacturing  
Includes – making a product from raw materials by hand or with machinery product from raw materials by hand or with machinery, defined by coatings, building products, print, paper and extractives industries
Occupational examples – assembler, chemical plant processor, foundry worker, paper manufacturing worker, process engineer, quality assurance officer

Passenger transport - UPDATED!
Includes – bus and coach, light and heavy rail, taxi (hackney) and private hire, aviation, driver training, community transport, transport planning
Occupational examples  – airline customer service agent, airport baggage handler, air traffic controller, coach driver, heavy vehicle maintenance and repair technician, road transport manager

Plumbing and heating 
Includes – a range of services to the construction industry and various industrial, commercial, retail and domestic clients
Occupational examples – building services engineer, heating and ventilation fitter/welder, domestic heating fitter, ductwork installer, air conditioning engineer, plumber

Police and community justice – replaced and updated by the Justice sector

Professions allied to construction  
Includes – part of the property sector, which is involved with building, creating and assessment and covers a wide range of services related to the design, planning, appraisal, acquisition, disposal of land, buildings and associated resources
Occupational examples – architects, town planners, surveyors

Public administration 
Includes – general pubic service activities such as administration of central, regional and local bodies, government regulation agencies, judicial activities, compulsory social security
Occupational examples – secretarial and administrative staff, environmental health officer, democratic services officer

Retail 
Includes – retail outlets ranging from national chains of supermarkets and high street department stores through to local corner shops, along with catalogue companies and internet retailing
Occupational examples – sales assistants, retail cashiers, shop managers

Social care 
Includes – day care centres, domiciliary care services, care homes, children’s homes, social work, adoption and fostering services offered by social services departments
Occupational examples – social workers, care home workers, domiciliary care managers, residential wardens, occupational therapists

Transport  – replaced and updated by Passenger transport

Voluntary 
Includes – all organisations with charitable status or are not-for-profit, which covers a large range of areas of which social care, housing, health care, education and community justice are the most common
Occupational examples – charity fundraiser, charity officer, advice worker, volunteer work organiser