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Arts and entertainment - updated and replaced by Creative and cultural industries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Banking and insurance  - updated and replaced by Financial services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