UK Claimant Count / Jobs Report
Mid-month, Tuesday · 07:00 London
The UK labor bundle: claimant count, unemployment rate and wage growth. Wages are the piece the BoE actually watches — pay growth feeds services inflation directly.
Same 7:00 London liquidity caveat as UK CPI: pre-session releases move further per unit of surprise than their US equivalents.
What it measures
The ONS labor bundle: claimant count, the unemployment rate, and average weekly earnings — the wage series being the policy-relevant one.
Why the economy cares
Wage growth feeds UK services inflation directly, which makes this the second-most policy-relevant UK release after CPI itself.
How it maps onto the chart
Hot wages → BoE stays tight → GBP up; cooling wages open the cutting path. Same 7:00 thin-liquidity mechanics as UK CPI, typically at a smaller scale.
Price behavior around the release
Before
Narrow Asian drift, no real pre-positioning structure.
During
Wage number decides the direction; claimant count is mostly noise around it.
After
Moves consolidate quickly unless CPI is due the next morning — the pair of releases together sets the week for cable.
Who lets you trade it
News-trading policy of every firm in our verified catalog, read off the firm's own pages. Details and per-program exceptions live in the firm's rules.
| Firm | Policy | Window | If violated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpha Capital | Restricted (funded) | ±5 min | Profit removed |
| Apex Trader Funding | Allowed | — | — |
| AquaFunded | Allowed | ±5 min | Profit removed |
| Atlas Funded | Restricted (funded) | ±5 min | Profit removed |
| Bloom Funded | Unpublished | — | — |
| Blue Guardian | Restricted (funded) | ±5 min | Profit removed |
| Blueberry Funded | Restricted (all) | ±2 min | Profit removed |
| BrightFunded | Restricted (funded) | ±5 min | Profit removed |
| Bulenox | Allowed | — | None |
| E8 Markets | Allowed | — | — |
| Earn2Trade | Allowed | — | None |
| Equity Edge | Restricted (all) | ±2 min | Account breach |
| FINTOKEI | Allowed | — | — |
| For Traders | Restricted (funded) | ±5 min | — |
| FTMO | Restricted (funded) | ±2 min | Account breach |
| Funded Trading Plus | Allowed | — | None |
| FundedNext | Restricted (funded) | ±5 min | Profit share reduced |
| FundedX | Restricted (all) | ±5 min | — |
| FundingPips | Restricted (funded) | ±5 min | Profit removed |
| FXIFY | Allowed | — | — |
| Goat Funded Trader | Allowed | ±5 min | Profit removed |
| Hola Prime | Restricted (funded) | ±5 min | Profit removed |
| Lucid Trading | Allowed | — | — |
| Maven Trading | Restricted (all) | ±2 min | Account breach |
| MyFundedFutures | Restricted (funded) | ±2 min | — |
| NYS Markets | Restricted (funded) | ±10 min | Profit share reduced |
| Orion Funded | Restricted (funded) | ±2 min | — |
| PineX Capital | Restricted (all) | ±5 min | Account breach |
| Propanium | Restricted (all) | ±2 min | None |
| Rebels Funding | Restricted (funded) | ±5/0 min | — |
| Sarmaye Gozare Bartar | Allowed | — | — |
| SharkFunded | Restricted (funded) | ±10 min | Account breach |
| Take Profit Trader | Restricted (funded) | ±1 min | — |
| The5ers | Allowed | — | — |
| Top One Trader | Restricted (funded) | ±5 min | — |
| Topstep | Allowed | — | — |
| Tradeify | Allowed | — | — |
Policies verified 2026-08-22 and re-checked weekly. Restricted usually applies to funded accounts only — evaluations are commonly exempt; open the firm's rules for the exact split.