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Ambition's Market Trends reports contain information on the latest hiring and employment trends gathered from surveys employers, hiring managers and employees from professional services firms.

Market Trends reports

Salary Guides H2 2024

Senior Legal Finance & Accounting Recruitment Trends in Q4 2025

Through Q3 - and the summer months - the senior legal finance & accounting recruitment market remained surprisingly active. Traditionally, we expec...

Hiring trends in Legal Finance- March 2025

As we head into the last month of Q1, it's hard to believe how quickly the year is flying by! The legal finance world is buzzing with activity, an...

Key hiring trends in Tax- November 2025

As we find ourselves halfway through the final quarter of 2025, the UK tax recruitment market remains active, though increasingly strategic.Econom...

Has the way we work changed forever?

Has the way we work changed forever? What our clients are sayingIt has been a challenging few weeks for us all. Having worked through the GFC I tho...

Professional Services Market Update - H2 2023

After record breaking job numbers in 2022, multiple offers for candidates, inflated salaries and counteroffers that offered eye-watering buybacks, ...

Market Update: The Legal Finance recruitment market post-EU Referendum

Most would agree that the past three months could be described as an interesting period in the UK. The lead up to and fall out of the EU Referendum...

Inefficient Processes Hampering Recruitment in a Candidate-Short Market, Study Finds

When it comes to recruiting business services talent into law firms and wider professional services, high-calibre candidates are in limited supply....

Insolvency & Restructuring Market Insights Q2 2018

Since the turn of the year, the number of high profile restructures and corporate collapses have been rather staggering. It started with the collap...