Research by Rayner Personnel, has revealed which UK cities are most in need of eight prominent roles in the property industry.

Rayner Personnel looked at the number of available jobs currently listed for sales negotiators, lettings negotiators, sales progressors, lettings progressors, valuers, mortgage brokers, mortgage advisors and branch managers across 20 major UK cities.

The research shows that London is home to the most vacancies for all roles listed, with Birmingham and Manchester also ranking high.

But which profession of the property sector is currently the most sought-after across every city?

When it comes to sales negotiators, there are eight cities where the position accounts for the highest number of job vacancies currently listed. Swansea is currently the most promising bet for out of work sales negs, with 42% of all jobs listings across these eight professions in the city falling under the role.

Manchester is also in need of sales negs more than any other position, with 32% of job vacancies across these eight roles advertising for a sales neg.

Sales negs were also the most sought after property industry professional in Plymouth (26%), Liverpool (24%), Birmingham (24%), Bristol (22%), Leeds (21%) and Sheffield (17%).

Interestingly, lettings negotiators were only the most prominent job opportunity in just one city, Cardiff, where 21% of all vacancies were for the role, although the role also accounted for 21% of listings in Swansea and 17% of listings in Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham.

Valuers were the most sought after job role in Newcastle (23%), Leicester (22%) and Nottingham (20%), while London is most in need of estate agent branch managers (35%).

Job adverts for mortgage advisers were most prevalent in Edinburgh (50%), Belfast (47%), Glasgow (44%), Aberdeen (43%), Southampton (28%), Portsmouth (27%) and Bournemouth (26%). Although the role of mortgage broker failed to rank as the most in-need across any city, the highest percentage of availability was found in Belfast (24%), Glasgow (19%) and Sheffield (16%)

Unfortunately for both sales and lettings progressors it’s pretty slim pickings. Sales progressors were most prominent in Newcastle, although the role accounted for just 5% of industry vacancies, while lettings progressors were most sought-after in Bristol although, again, they accounted for just 3% of all industry vacancies.

Founder and CEO of Rayner Personnel, Josh Rayner, commented:

“Many may be worried about finding themselves out of work as recession hits and in time like these, we may be forced further out of our comfort zones than we might otherwise like, whether that be through the role itself or where we go to find work.

“We wanted to highlight which cities currently offered the best chance of securing a job in your chosen position, or where is in need of a certain role that you may have been considering as a chance in career direction.

“It’s interesting to see how the demand for certain roles varies on a regional basis. Mortgage advisers are in strong demand across Scotland, Northern Ireland and the south coast, while in London branch managers are the greatest requirement, with sales negs the most prominent role across other major regional cities outside of the capital.”