Civil BMD indexes are (mostly) available for free and you have to order certificates from the GRO or register office, so you would only use Ancestry or Findmypast for parish registers as far as BMD's go, though of course they do also have the BMD indexes on both sites. I think Findmypast has more employment records than Ancestry, but I don't think either of them have very many. If you are looking for First World War records, they are (mostly) on both sites; if you are looking for Second World War they won't (generally) be on either site.
If you haven't already had a free trial with either site, they will usually offer you one, but make sure to cancel before they charge you. With Ancestry you might be best to phone them to make sure the cancellation goes through. Otherwise, have a look at their lists of databases to see whether they have the kind of thing you are looking for.
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