Construction industry | The Guardian
Why is UK self-employment at a record high?
This year there were 4.6m people who were self-employed in their main job, with the rises over the past few years having a big effect on the overall employment numbers
About 15% of those working in the UK in 2014 are self-employed - the highest proportion in the four decades that data has been collected on the subject.
As well as these 4.6m people, there were also an extra 356,000 who had a second job in which they were self-employed according to a release by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
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