joshua mahoney speaking to me earlier.b seekers. new data released today by the job search engine adzuna show vacancies continuing to fall during the month of march, the fifth consecutive month of delcine. unemployment, meanwhile, is continuing to rise, now standing at 4.2% according to adzuna's figures. let's speak now to andrew hunter, co—founder of adzuna. give us a sense about what these numbers tell us. i touched on that while the unemployed rate is ticking up, vacancies are falling, but wages are rising. make that link for us. that's right. we currently ch hundred 62,000 vacancies across the uk on our platform. the good news is that rate of hiring is no longer in precipitous decline, but we have seen five straight months of falls. so the labour market is definitely cooling, employers are trying to catch up with wages, inflation rising dramatically in the last 12 months and employers trying to keep pace with that. we are seeing a job market in flux, but a job market where hiring activity is down 17% year on year. it w