Food Safety Standard Knowledge
Understanding of standards for ensuring food safety and quality.
Skill demand · ONS UK online job adverts
How common is hospitality and food science?
This requirement appears in 4.6% of UK new online job adverts in 2025. Its share rose by 0.5 percentage points compared with 2024.
The latest year is partial. Comparisons with full years need care. 2026 figures have not been published yet.Share of new adverts4.6%UK · 2025
Change in share+0.5 pp2024 to 2025
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What this skill category covers
Official detailed requirements in this ONS group
Beverage Production and Service Technique Skills
Ability to produce and serve beverages using appropriate techniques.
ONS Table 1 detailed requirements · SCO04.06. Shares can overlap because an advert may mention several requirements.
Roles that often need this skill category
Occupations where hospitality and food science appears most often in UK new adverts
| # | Occupation | Share of occupation adverts | View |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cooks Example titles: Cook · Head cook · Fish fryer · Grill hand | 77.7% | |
| 2 | Chefs Example titles: Chef · Head chef · Chef manager · Food stylist | 66.8% | |
| 3 | Butchers Example titles: Butcher · First hand · Meat cutter · Bacon cutter | 62.2% | |
| 4 | Environmental health professionals Example titles: Environmental health manager · Food inspector · Shops inspector · Sanitary officer | 49.2% | |
| 5 | Kitchen and catering assistants Example titles: Kitchen assistant · Pan man · Tea boy · Tea lady | 49.0% | |
| 6 | Bakers and flour confectioners Example titles: Flour confectioner · Table man · Cake maker · First hand | 45.0% | |
| 7 | Bar and catering supervisors Example titles: Bar supervisor · Head barman · Head waiter · Area manager | 44.8% | |
| 8 | Catering and bar managers Example titles: Bar manager · Club steward · Duty manager · Chief steward | 42.7% | |
| 9 | Restaurant and catering establishment managers and proprietors Example titles: Restaurant manager · Cafe owner · Cafe manager · Takeaway owner | 41.3% | |
| 10 | Coffee shop workers Example titles: Coffee shop assistant · Coffee maid · Coffee barman · Coffee barmaid | 39.4% |
How related skills compare
Skills within Agriculture and Food Production
| # | Skill | Share of adverts | Change (pp) | View |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Food and Beverage Production Foodservice and Retail Management · Food Processing and Safety · Food Service Operations and Meat Processing | 8.7% | +0.4 pp | |
| 2 | Hospitality and Food Science Selected skill · Food Safety Standard Knowledge · Beverage Production and Service Technique Skills | 4.6% | +0.5 pp | |
| 3 | Agriculture and Horticulture Agricultural Equipment and Cultivation · Agricultural Science and Policy · Soil Science and Agricultural Practices | 4.6% | +0.4 pp | |
| 4 | Food Science Food Technology and Industry Knowledge · Low-Temperature Processing Techniques · Food Production Knowledge | 0.3% | 0.0 pp | |
| 5 | Consumer Appliances and Food Tech Coffee Equipment Operation | 0.0% | 0.0 pp | |
| 6 | Culinary Science Food Preparation and Ingredient Management | 0.0% | 0.0 pp | |
| 7 | Life Sciences and Botany Plant Identification Techniques | 0.0% | 0.0 pp |
About these figures
How to interpret skill demand
Source: Office for National Statistics, UK online job adverts. Shares describe new adverts reporting the requirement. An advert may mention several skills, so their shares do not add up to 100%. A rise from 10% to 12% is an increase of 2 percentage points.
These figures do not establish a salary premium, proficiency level, or which skills are requested together. This page has no published skill-specific salary or location breakdown.
ONS · 2025 · partial year · 2026 figures have not been published yet. · Open Government Licence v3.0. ONS does not endorse Jobmundo.