Gloucestershire's 100 Biggest Employers 2019

GLOUCESTERSHIRE'S 100 BIGGEST EMPLOYERS

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GCHQ Cheltenham STAFF: 5,988 EMPLOYING: Yes Perhaps the really interesting question is what could we say about the Government spy base if only we were allowed? The intelligence, security and cyber agency with a mission to help keep the UK safe and whose best friends are the likes of MI5 and MI6 l

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Cheltenham

STAFF: 7,900 EMPLOYING: Yes Where would we be without it? The trust runs Cheltenham General Hospital and Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, Gloucester, which serves western and southern Gloucestershire and parts of Herefordshire. It also looks after Stroud Maternity Hospital, midwifery services across the Forest of Dean and Cotswolds and its specialist clinics countywide l

Gloucestershire County Council Gloucester

STAFF: 3,730 EMPLOYING: Yes

The headcount above (3,730) covers off the council staff, and includes the Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service. This mighty organisation looks after our social services, roads, libraries and schools. Indeed, if you also include those employed the education authority that’s an extra 6,314 staff - taking the total to 10,044. Continues to champion apprenticeships too l Gloucestershire Constabulary Gloucester STAFF: 2,019 EMPLOYING: Unclear Otherwise known as the police force for the county of Gloucestershire. Indispensable – and one of our biggest employers. Its staff battle to keep everyone in Gloucestershire safe – online as well l 5

Renishaw Wotton-under-Edge

STAFF: 2,600 EMPLOYING: Yes

An engineering firm par excellence leading developments in an array of sectors. A profits warning in March has not deterred it from its never-ending investment in people, innovation and quest for excellence. Apprenticeship and graduate programmes continue apace. One of Punchline’s 25 Gloucestershire Apprenticeship Champions l