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What is the JEDHub?
The Joint Economic Data Hub (JEDHub), based in the UK Defence Solutions Centre, is a collaborative initiative to improve understanding of the defence sector's contribution to the UK economy. Designed to provide better, consistent, and impartial data, the JEDHub is supported by government, industry and academia.
JEDHub considers the economic contribution the defence sector makes to the UK economy in a number of ways - including its national and regional contribution; its contribution to skills and productivity; as well as its impact on international trade and the broader UK supply chain.
2025 JEDHub Annual Economic Report
The fourth iteration of the Annual Economic Report 2025 builds on JEDHub's ongoing commitment to measuring and demonstrating the economic contribution of the UK defence sector.
Maintaining the same rigorous methodological approach, the report draws on the findings of the 2024 JEDHub Industry Survey and continues to provide clear, evidence-based analysis of the sector's role within the wider economy.
The analysis is structured across the same core themes as previous years, ensuring consistency across reports:
- People in Defence
- Value
- Investment and Skills
- Trade
- Supply Chain
Midlands Case Study
Commissioned by the Army's Land Industrial Strategy team, the 2025 Midlands Case Study analyses the defence posture of the Midlands region of the UK, defined as the ITL regions of the East and West Midlands.
The report assesses the contribution of the Midlands to broader UK defence efforts through three seperate sections:
- Industrial Base
- Trade
- Army Talent Pipeline
2024 JEDHub Annual Economic Report
The third Annual Economic Report 2024 continues to support the JEDHub's efforts in quantifying the contribution of the UK defence sector to the wider economy.
The report, based on the findings of the 2023 JEDHub Industry Survey, covers the following themes:
- People in Defence
- Investment and Skills
- Defence Value
- Defence Trade
- Defence Supply Chain
2023 JEDHub Annual Economic Report
The second Annual Economic Report continues to support the JEDHub's efforts in quantifying the contribution of the UK defence sector to the wider economy, the 2023 JEDHub Annual Economic Report is the second in a series of annual reports.
The report, based on the findings of the 2022 JEDHub Industry Survey, covers themes including:
- International and domestic turnover
- Regional and national employment
- Supply chains
- Demographics and skills
- Defence productivity
2022 JEDHub Annual Economic Report
This first annual economic report outlined the important contribution of the defence sector to the UK economy and summarises this contribution against the following 5 inter-related themes:
- The national, regional and local contribution
- International trade
- The role of the defence supply chain
- Value and productivity
- Innovation and investment
Data and Methodologies from the 2025 JEDHub Annual Economic Report
Data associated with the report is available to download by clickingtapping here.
The accompanying methdology annexes are available to download by clickingtapping here.
