By the last business day of September 2024, there were about 7.44 million job openings in the United States. This is a decrease from the previous month, when there were 7.86 million job openings. The data are seasonally adjusted. Seasonal adjustment is a statistical method for removing the seasonal component of a time series that is used when analyzing non-seasonal trends.

On the last business day of April 2025, there were about **** million job openings in the professional and business services industry in the United States, the highest number of job openings after the private education and health services industries. The mining and logging industry, however, had about ****** job openings during the same month. The data is seasonally adjusted.

In the fourth quarter of 2024, there were around 1.4 million job positions available in Germany. This was an increase compared to the previous quarter, though still on the lower end compared to earlier in the timeline.

In 2025, there were estimated to be approximately 3.6 billion people employed worldwide, compared to 2.23 billion people in 1991 - an increase of around 1.4 billion people. There was a noticeable fall in global employment between 2019 and 2020, when the number of employed people fell from due to the sudden economic shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Formal vs. Informal employment globally Worldwide, there is a large gap between the informally and formally employed. Most informally employed workers reside in the Global South, especially Africa and Southeast Asia. Moreover, men are slightly more likely to be informally employed than women. The majority of informal work, nearly 90 percent, is within the agricultural sector, with domestic work and construction following behind. Women’s employment As the number of employees has risen globally, so has the number of employed women. Overall, care roles such as nursing and midwifery have the highest shares of female employees globally. Moreover, while the gender pay gap has shrunk over time, it still exists. As of 2024, the uncontrolled gender pay gap was 0.83, meaning women made, on average, 83 cents per every dollar earned by men.

As of May 2023, the monthly average number of information sector job openings stood at *** thousand. Notably, there were fewer job openings in the U.S. information sector in 2020 than in the previous years. This is could be attributed due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic when companies laid off many off their employees and fewer employees were hired generally. In 2022, the job market seemed to have experienced a slight rebound with more IT job openings in the U.S. than in previous years, with around *** thousand job openings monthly on average in 2022.

Recruiters worldwide reported that the most demanded IT roles for 2025 were full-stack and back-end developers. AI/Machine learning specialists ranked third in terms of job demand for 2025, followed by Front-end developers/engineers and DevOps.

Belgium and The Netherlands had the highest job vacancy rate in the European Union in the last quarter of 2024, at 4.1 percent each. Romania and Poland had the lowest job vacancy rates in Europe, at 0.7 percent each. The overall rate for the European Union during the same quarter was 2.3 percent, while for the Euro area - which contains 20 of 27 member states - it was 2.5 percent.

As of February 2023, there were ******* cybersecurity job openings in the United States. The state with the highest number of job openings was California with ****** open positions in cybersecurity related fields.

In the United States, there were about eight million job openings on the last business day of September 2024. The job openings rate was 4.5 percent that month. The data are seasonally adjusted. Seasonal adjustment is a statistical method for removing the seasonal component of a time series that is used when analyzing non-seasonal trends.

In October 2020, Spain had about * percent of tech job postings per *********** job postings for tech jobs. This was the highest share amongst all European countries considered by the source. Overall, the relative share of tech jobs in Spain and Portugal is higher than in other European countries. Factors making locations attractive for global tech companies Some of the reasons behind the high share of tech job postings in Spain and Portugal are high standards of living, good universities, and an attractive immigration policy. Further, the time zone and direct flights to San Francisco weigh in as important geographical and logistical aspects. These are important factors influencing global tech companies’ decisions to open branch offices or relocate, which is demonstrated by Portugal succeeding in attracting the global tech company Cloudflare to open a local office in 2019. The struggle to recruit tech talent Besides striving to attract tech companies, the struggle to recruit tech talent is also pervasive. A recent survey of human resource professionals indicates that recruiting DevOps is particularly challenging. This is in part because technology’s increasing complexity demands the creation of new practices and job positions to keep up with the latest developments. For this reason, organizations continuously plan to increase their investments in upskilling or re-skilling their employees to overcome this issue.

In the three months to June 2025, there were approximately 727,000 job vacancies in the UK, the fewest number of job vacancies since April 2021. The number of job vacancies in the United Kingdom reached a record high of 1.3 million in the three months to May 2022, with the number of vacancies steadily falling since then. During the provided time period, the number of job vacancies fell to its lowest levels in the months leading to June 2020, at just 328,000, at the height of COVID-19 restrictions. Tight labor market beginning to loosen After weathering the economic storm of COVID-19, the UK labor market has been reasonably healthy since 2021. The unemployment rate, which reached 5.1 percent in late 2020, declined in the following months, to a post-pandemic low of 3.5 percent by August 2022. Since that point, however, the unemployment rate has crept up, and was 4.4 percent in November 2024. Resignations have also started to decline, after reaching a peak of 442,000 in the second quarter of 2022, there were just 181,000 in the third quarter of 2024. Which industries are experiencing staff shortages? The percentage of businesses reporting a staff shortage in the UK reached 15.7 percent in September 2022, before falling to just 9.7 percent by October 2023, another indication of a loosening labor market. According to data from that month, approximately 1 in 4 UK businesses in the accommodation and food services had a shortage of staff, the highest of any sector, followed by human health and social work at 18.4 percent, and manufacturing at 17.6 percent. Many of the recent struggles of Britain's National Health Service are directly related to staff shortages, with the public seeing a shortage of doctors and nurses, and overworked staff as some of the main problems facing the NHS.

******** remains the most prominent employment-related social media in the United States with ********* following closely behind. Other mediums for job search are used less frequently, though anything reflecting an employer's image is a viable tool for those seeking new employment. The image a company reflects is likely to be significant as the wave of resignation in the United States continues and people seek more favorable employment.

In September 2022, Belgium and the Netherlands' share of tech jobs that were characterized as hard to fill in relation to total tech jobs was at ** percent. A job position that is hard to fill is defined as a job that remained for more than ***** days on the relevant job posting site Indeed.com without finding a suitable candidate. By contrast, for the United Kingdom, the share of tech jobs that were hard to fill was below ** percent.

In 2023, there were around ******* open positions in the German IT industry. This was a large increase of around ****** compared to the previous year. This was also the highest figure since the timeline started.

According to a 2024 survey of employers in the United States, approximately ** percent of employees would leave their jobs for access to higher pay. However, higher pay is not as important to employees as some may believe. The surveyed employers believed that ** percent of employees would quit their jobs for more flexible work-from-home options.

The thing that keeps open source professionals from changing jobs, according to a 2022 global survey of open source professionals, is a higher salary, with over half of respondents indicating as such. More training opportunities and flexible work schedules are also important to open source professionals.

The third and last quarter of 2019 mirrored the first impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the job market in France. As it seems, the amount of job openings for managers went from about ******* in the first months of 2019, to less than ******* in the last months of that year. In 2021, the situation seemed to be more favorable for qualified job seekers: About ******* positions were available for French managers in the last quarter of 2021.

According to estimates, the majority of TikTok Shop's gross merchandise value (GMV) originates from Asia. As of **********, nearly ** percent of TikTok Shop's GMV came from the Asia region. In comparison, TikTok Shop's GMV from North America accounted for an estimated ** percent. However, the share of open job roles was much higher in North America than in Asia, with ** percent compared to ** percent. Europe accounted for the remaining GMV share and open job positions.

In 2022, over *** thousand of the data science job positions were available in multi-national corporation IT and KPO service provider companies in the south Asian country of India. An increase in the availability of the data science jobs was seen over the years from 2019.

As of June 2021, the United States had the most job vacancies among the listed countries, with **** million unoccupied positions. Russia ranked second, with **** open job positions.