Amazon is to create 4,000 new permanent jobs this year, taking its UK total up to 75,000 and make it one of the country's biggest private sector employers.
It says that it will take the number of jobs created by the e-commerce and computer services giant in the UK over the past three years to 40,000, at a cost of £1 billion. The 4,000 jobs being created by Amazon will be distributed around the country and throughout its businesses.
They will include the new warehouses that it is opening in Wakefield and Knowsley, as well as its sorting centres, delivery stations and Amazon’s Fresh Stores, which use technology to enable people to buy food and other household items without scanning or having to pay at a till.
