Labour force status by Labour market region (ASGS) and Sex, as described by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/employment-and-unemployment/labour-force-australia-detailed/latest-release#labour-market-regions-sa4-

Australia Industrial Trends Survey: Composite Index: Labour Market data was reported at 43.900 Index in Mar 2025. This stayed constant from the previous number of 43.900 Index for Dec 2024. Australia Industrial Trends Survey: Composite Index: Labour Market data is updated quarterly, averaging 48.800 Index from Sep 2014 (Median) to Mar 2025, with 43 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 60.100 Index in Sep 2017 and a record low of 29.400 Index in Jun 2020. Australia Industrial Trends Survey: Composite Index: Labour Market data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Australia – Table AU.S043: Australian Chamber-Westpac Industrial Trends Survey.

This dataset presents the change in employment through a projection of employment by industries for metropolitan areas following the Greater Capital City Statistical Area (GCCSA) regions projected from 2019 to May 2024. The boundaries for this dataset follow the 2016 edition of the Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS).

The Australian Department of Education, Skills and Employment publishes a range of labour market data on its Labour Market Information Portal. The data provided includes unemployment rate, employment rate, participation rate, youth unemployment rate, unemployment duration, population by age group and employment by industry and occupation.

Each year, the National Skills Commission produces employment projections by industry, occupation, skill level and region for the following five-year period. These employment projections are designed to provide a guide to the future direction of the labour market, however, like all such exercises, they are subject to an inherent degree of uncertainty.

The 2019 employment projections are based on the forecasted and projected total employment growth rates published in the 2019-20 Budget, the Labour Force Survey (LFS) data (June 2019) for total employment, and the quarterly detailed LFS data (May 2019) for industry employment data.

AURIN has spatially enabled the original data. Data Source: Department of Jobs and Small Business 2019 Employment Projections, Five Years to May 2024. The 2019 employment projections do not take account of any impact caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and are therefore no longer reflective of current labour market conditions. As such, they should be used, and interpreted, with extreme caution..

This dataset presents data on the labour force categorised by age and sex, available from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Labour Force statistics. This dataset is based on Statistical Area Level 4 (SA4) from the 2011 Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS), and covers data for individual months between October 1998 and June 2020. Labour Force statistics are compiled from the Labour Force Survey which is conducted each month throughout Australia as part of the ABS household survey program. The Labour Force Survey provides monthly information about the labour market activity of Australia's resident civilian population aged 15 years and over. The Labour Force Survey is designed to primarily provide estimates of employment and unemployment for the whole of Australia and, secondarily, for each state and territory. This data is ABS data (catalogue number: 6291.0.55.001) used with permission from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. For more information please visit the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Labor Force Participation Rate in Australia remained unchanged at 67 percent in October. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - Australia Labor Force Participation Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

Discover the "SEEK Australian Jobs Dataset," a valuable resource that provides an in-depth look at the job market in Australia.

This dataset features detailed job listings from SEEK, Australia's leading employment marketplace, and offers comprehensive insights into job postings across various industries and regions.

Key Features:

• Extensive Job Listings: Includes a wide range of job postings from various sectors and industries, providing a broad perspective on employment opportunities in Australia.
• Detailed Information: Each listing contains essential details such as job titles, company names, job descriptions, locations, employment types (full-time, part-time, casual), required qualifications, and salary ranges.
• Insights into Trends: Analyze trends in the Australian job market, including the most sought-after skills, top hiring companies, popular job roles, and regional distribution of job opportunities.
• Ideal for Research: This dataset is ideal for researchers, HR professionals, and data analysts looking to understand the current state of the job market, develop recruitment strategies, or study labor market trends in Australia.

Leverage the SEEK Australian Jobs Dataset to gain valuable insights into the job market, stay updated with industry trends, and make informed decisions. Whether you are a job seeker, employer, or researcher, this dataset provides a wealth of information to explore the dynamics of employment in Australia.

The Australian Government Department of Jobs and Small Business publishes a range of labour market data on its Labour Market Information Portal website (lmip.gov.au).

The link below provides data for the boundaries used by the Department in its administration of jobactive. These boundaries are known as Employment Regions. The data provided includes:

• jobactive caseload data (Australian Government Department of Employment administrative data);
• Centrelink administrative data - Australian Government Department of Employment extract;
• Unemployment rates (Australian Bureau of Statistics Labour Force Survey data and Australian Government Department of Employment estimates, derived from Small Area Labour Markets estimates);
• Employment by industry and occupation (Australian Bureau of Statistics Labour Force Survey data and Census of Population and Housing data);
• Population by age group data (Australian Bureau of Statistics Labour Force Survey data and Australian Bureau of Statistics Estimated Resident Population).

Job Trends in Australia

Insight into Job Types, Salaries and Growth Across States

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About this dataset

This dataset provides an insightful look into the Australian job market and the country's current trend of economic development. It consists of 30000 unique job postings from SEEK Australia, a renowned job board in Australia, offering valuable insights regarding salaries, job types, and openings across cities and states.

The data allows researchers to compare which type of jobs are offered across different locations, providing critical information on which cities or states offer particular kinds of jobs. Moreover, it offers a framework that can be used to understand how different companies compare when it comes to salaries and hiring practices. In addition, this dataset provides an in-depth view into what type of job openings there are in each city or state and their respective salaries. All this is available through reliable columns such as city, state, company name, salary offered & url enabling effective analysis and providing consumers with much needed knowledge about their potential employment opportunities in the market

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How to use the dataset

This dataset can be used to gain insights into the Australian job market – from job types, salaries, and locations to trends in growth across states. To get started working with this data, you will need to download the dataset from Kaggle.

Once you have the dataset downloaded, it is important to become familiar with the different fields available as these will influence what kind of analysis you can do. The columns include category, city, company name, geo coordinates (for location-based analysis), job board (to determine where these jobs were posted), job description (to find relevant keywords and topics related with each position), job title (to search for specific jobs or trends in titles over time), job type (i.e full time/part-time etc.), posting date and salary offered.

You can further filter your results based on any combination of these different column values to get more targeted information about a certain area or topic that you are researching on. Additionally, visualizing certain elements such as salary ranges by region/job type may be helpful for gaining a wide understanding of Australia’s labor landscape in various sectors and cities.

Finally, it may also be useful to look at how salaries might have changed over time by comparing postings from 2 different years for example which could help identify employment growth areas or opportunities for businesses looking to set up shop in certain regions etc

Research Ideas

• Analyzing Salary Trends: By investigating the salaries of various job postings, researchers can gain insights on wage growth and wage disparities across different cities and states in Australia.
• Comparing Job Types & Salaries: Researchers can observe which cities offer higher salaries for particular job types and also get an understanding of what is expected from potential applicants.
• Tracking Job Market Growth: By using data from the years before, it is possible to identify which areas have seen the most growth in terms of job opportunities and how that compares with other areas in Australia

Acknowledgements

If you use this dataset in your research, please credit the original authors. Data Source

License

License: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) - Public Domain Dedication No Copyright - You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. See Other Information.

Columns

File: seek_australia.csv | Column name | Description | |:--------------------|:------------------------------------------------------------| | category | The category of the job posting. (String) | | city | The city in which the job is located. (String) | | company_name | The name of the company offering the job. (String) | | geo | The geographic coordinates of the job location. (String) | | job_board | The job board on which the job was posted. (String) | | job_description | The description of the job. (String) | | job_title | The title of the job. (...

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a widespread shift to remote work, reducing the level of face-to-face interaction between workers and changing their modes and patterns of communication. This study tests whether this transformation in production processes has altered the longstanding labour market trend of increasing demand for interpersonal skills. To address this question, we integrate an established skills taxonomy with the text of over 12 million job postings (covering the period from 2015 to 2022) to measure trends in skills demand at the aggregate and occupational levels. We find that since the start of the pandemic there has been a significant and sustained acceleration in the aggregate demand for interpersonal skills. We also find a strong positive association between an occupation's propensity for remote work and the level of acceleration in interpersonal skills demand for the occupation. Our findings suggest that interpersonal skills continue to grow in importance for employment in the post-pandemic, remote work friendly labour market.

The Australian Government Department of Jobs and Small Business publishes a range of labour market data on its Labour Market Information Portal website (lmip.gov.au). The link below provides data from the Labour Force Survey conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The boundaries used in this survey are known as Statistical Area 4 regions. The data provided includes unemployment rate, employment rate, participation rate, youth unemployment rate, unemployment duration, population by age group and employment by industry and occupation.

Australia Labour Force: 45-54 Years data was reported at 2,844.030 Person th in Mar 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 2,861.752 Person th for Feb 2025. Australia Labour Force: 45-54 Years data is updated monthly, averaging 2,093.490 Person th from Feb 1978 (Median) to Mar 2025, with 566 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 2,861.752 Person th in Feb 2025 and a record low of 1,025.045 Person th in Jan 1983. Australia Labour Force: 45-54 Years data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Australian Bureau of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Australia – Table AU.G006: Labour Force: by Age, Sex and Status.

Labour Force Participation Rate: Not Married: 35-44 Years data was reported at 80.225 % in Mar 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 80.654 % for Feb 2025. Labour Force Participation Rate: Not Married: 35-44 Years data is updated monthly, averaging 77.429 % from Feb 1978 (Median) to Mar 2025, with 566 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 82.111 % in Mar 1990 and a record low of 71.889 % in Jan 1984. Labour Force Participation Rate: Not Married: 35-44 Years data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Australian Bureau of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Australia – Table AU.G049: Labour Force Participation Rate: by Age, Sex and Status.

This datasets presents smooth values of the number of people in the labour force of Local Government Area (LGA) regions for each quarter starting December 2010 up to June 2018. The boundaries used for the dataset follow the 2018 edition of the Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS). Small Area Labour Markets presents regional estimates of unemployment and the unemployment rate at two small area levels: For approximately 2,100 Australian Bureau of Statistics’ (ABS) Statistical Area Level 2s (SA2s), on a State/Territory and Metropolitan/Non-metropolitan basis; and For each of Australia’s 540 Local Government Areas (LGAs). The estimates in Table 1 and 2 are smoothed using a four-quarter average to minimise the variability inherent in small area estimates. A description of the methodology used to prepare the estimates in this publication is presented in the Explanatory Notes, as well as on page 43 of the PDF Publication. Please note: AURIN has spatially enabled the original data.

The number of employed people in Australia amounted to 14.35 million people in 2024. Between 1980 and 2024, the number rose by 8.06 million people, though the increase followed an uneven trajectory rather than a consistent upward trend. From 2024 to 2026, the number will increase by 540,000 people.The indicator describes the number of employed people. This refers to persons who during a pre-defined period, either: a) performed wage or salary work, b) held a formal attachment to their job (even if not currently working), (c) performed for-profit work for personal or family gain , (d) were with an enterprise although temporarily not at work for any specific reason.

This dataset presents data on the population of a region by age group for the Statistical Area Level 4 (SA4) regions as of December 2021. The boundaries for this dataset follow the 2016 edition of the Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS).

The Australian Department of Education, Skills and Employment publishes a range of labour market data on its Labour Market Information Portal. The data provided includes unemployment rate, employment rate, participation rate, youth unemployment rate, unemployment duration, population by age group and employment by industry and occupation.

AURIN has spatially enabled the original data. Data Source: ABS Labour Force Survey, 12 month average, December 2021. The ABS advises that analysis of regional labour force estimates should typically be based on annual averages, which are important for understanding the state of the labour market and providing medium and long-term signals. The application of annual averages, however, is unlikely to accurately or quickly detect turning points in the regional data during periods of significant change (such as during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic). Original data at the ABS Statistical Area 4 (SA4) level can be found in Table 16. The region named "Western Australia - Outback (North and South)" in the original data has been omitted as it did not match a region within the SA4 2016 ASGS.

This dataset presents data on the numbers and status of employment by industries for the Statistical Area Level 4 (SA4) regions as a time series for November 2015, 2019 and 2020. The boundaries for this dataset follow the 2016 edition of the Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS).

The Australian Department of Education, Skills and Employment publishes a range of labour market data on its Labour Market Information Portal. The data provided includes unemployment rate, employment rate, participation rate, youth unemployment rate, unemployment duration, population by age group and employment by industry and occupation.

AURIN has spatially enabled the original data. Data Source: ABS Labour Force Survey, four quarter average, except for Australia which is seasonally adjusted data. The region named "Western Australia - Outback (North and South)" in the original data has been omitted as it did not match a region within the SA4 2016 ASGS.

This dataset presents data on the numbers and status of employment by occupation and gender for the Statistical Area Level 4 (SA4) regions as of August 2018. The boundaries for this dataset follow …Show full descriptionThis dataset presents data on the numbers and status of employment by occupation and gender for the Statistical Area Level 4 (SA4) regions as of August 2018. The boundaries for this dataset follow the 2011 edition of the Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS). The Australian Government Department of Jobs and Small Business publishes a range of labour market data on its Labour Market Information Portal. The data provided includes unemployment rate, employment rate, participation rate, youth unemployment rate, unemployment duration, population by age group and employment by industry and occupation. Please note: AURIN has spatially enabled the original data. Data Source: ABS Labour Force Survey, four quarter average. Copyright attribution: Government of the Commonwealth of Australia - Department of Jobs and Small Businesses, (2018): ; accessed from AURIN on 12/16/2021. Licence type: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

This datasets presents smooth values of the number of people in the labour force of Statistical Area Level 2 (SA2) regions for each quarter starting December 2010 up to June 2018. The boundaries …Show full descriptionThis datasets presents smooth values of the number of people in the labour force of Statistical Area Level 2 (SA2) regions for each quarter starting December 2010 up to June 2018. The boundaries used for the dataset follow the 2011 edition of the Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS). Small Area Labour Markets presents regional estimates of unemployment and the unemployment rate at two small area levels: For approximately 2,100 Australian Bureau of Statistics’ (ABS) Statistical Area Level 2s (SA2s), on a State/Territory and Metropolitan/Non-metropolitan basis; and For each of Australia’s 540 Local Government Areas (LGAs). The estimates in Table 1 and 2 are smoothed using a four-quarter average to minimise the variability inherent in small area estimates. A description of the methodology used to prepare the estimates in this publication is presented in the Explanatory Notes, as well as on page 43 of the PDF Publication. Please note: AURIN has spatially enabled the original data. Where data values were "-" (no data provided) in the original data they have been set to null. Caution: Highly disaggregated estimates of unemployment and the unemployment rate at the SA2 and LGA level can display significant variability and should be viewed with caution. Indeed, quarter-to-quarter comparisons may not be indicative of actual movements in the labour market. It is therefore recommended that year-on-year comparisons be used. Copyright attribution: Government of the Commonwealth of Australia - Department of Jobs and Small Businesses, (2018): ; accessed from AURIN on 12/3/2020. Licence type: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Employment Services is the Australian Government’s way of helping get more Australians into work. Job Services Australia was the employment services model between 1 July 2009- 30 June 2015. These datasets are the aggregated Job Services Australia youth caseload (job seekers aged 15-24) for labour market regions across Australia, broken down by various demographics including stream classification. The caseload datasets contain information on the number of people being assisted by Job Services Australia for each month of the programme. The outcomes datasets contain information on the number of job seekers who remained in employment for particular milestones (13 weeks or 26 weeks) and who were placed into a job. Further descriptions of employment services and the variable descriptions are available in the attached documentation below. This dataset is provided by the Department of Jobs and Small Business.

Small Area Labour Markets presents regional estimates of unemployment and the unemployment rate at two small area levels: For approximately 2,100 Australian Bureau of Statistics’ (ABS) Statistical Area Level 2s (SA2s), on a State/Territory and Metropolitan/Non-metropolitan basis, provided in Table 1. For the States, estimates for the Capital City and the Balance of each State are also provided; and For each of Australia’s 550 Local Government Areas (LGAs), provided in Table 2.