How many employees work at United Utilities?
United Utilities Plc has 6,189 employees, according to Revelio Labs workforce intelligence data. The YoY growth rate is 8.6%.
Data source: Revelio Labs Coverage: Global workforce Latest update: September 2025
About United Utilities
United Utilities provides water and wastewater services to around seven million people in the North West of England supplying 3million households and 200,000 business premises. We manage the catchment land around our reservoirs to safeguard the quality of the raw water we collect and store. We then treat and deliver it to our customer's taps - around 1,500 million litres a day We also collect wastewater from our customers and surface water from roads and highways, treat it at our wastewater treatment works before returning it back safely to the environment. In order to do this we have: - 184 reservoirs - over 42,000 km of water pipes, from Cumbria to Cheshire - over 72,000 km of sewers - over 1,400 km of aqueducts - 100 water treatment works - 575 wastewater treatment works - 57,000 hectares of catchment land
As of September 2025
United Utilities
workforce metrics
Headcount
6.2k
Avg. Salary
$64.9k
Tenure
4.7yr
Growth Rate
8.6%
Hiring Rate
Attrition Rate
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Employee Headcount
Interactive chart of United Utilities annual worldwide employee count from 2023 to 2025.
- United Utilities total number of employees in 2025 was 6,252.762, a 8.6% increase from 2024.
- United Utilities total number of employees in 2024 was 5,729.505, a 4.6% increase from 2023.
- United Utilities total number of employees in 2023 was 5,476.384, a 0.3% decline from 2022.
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Employee Geographic Breakdown
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Active Job Postings
Interactive chart of United Utilities annual active job postings from 2023 to 2025.
- United Utilities active job postings in 2025 was 415, a 31.8% increase from 2024.
- United Utilities active job postings in 2024 was 272, a 130.7% increase from 2023.
- United Utilities active job postings in 2023 was 57, a 39.4% decline from 2022.
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Employee Sentiment
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