Barnsley posts UK’s strongest growth in job opportunities

Northern and Midlands towns with major distribution centres record best employment prospects

Northern and Midlands towns with sprawling warehouse distribution centres have emerged as the places in Britain with the strongest growth in job opportunities as the economy exits lockdown.

Reflecting the online shopping boom during the pandemic, data compiled by the jobs website Indeed and the Centre for Cities thinktank showed that Barnsley, Mansfield and Stoke-on-Trent - all strategic locations for distributors such as Amazon, Hermes and Asos - were staging the fastest recovery.