Graph and download economic data for Infra-Annual Registered Unemployment and Job Vacancies: Total Economy: Unfilled Vacancies for United States (LMJVTTUVUSQ647S) from Q1 2001 to Q4 2023 about job openings, jobs, vacancy, and USA.

In 2024, there were 7014,90 open job positions in Germany. Since the beginning of the timeline, 2011, the number of job vacancies has only increased. In 2022, there were almost double the number of positions compared to 2011. Employment in Germany Out of all G7 countries, Germany had the second lowest unemployment rate, bested only by Japan. Despite this, the continued high number of open job positions suggests that Germany’s workforce is too small or there are not enough people with certain skills that the labor market requires. A potential solution to this problem is migration, especially if the birth rate continues to decrease, because it would increase the size of the labor force and allow employers to find people with the necessary skill set. This would allow people of working age and the right skills to immediately join the workforce. According to the German Institute of Economics, if Germany faces a scenario of high migration, there will be a total of 39.1 million academics and professionally qualified people who could work by 2040. This is, however, still a decrease from 2025, when there are estimated to be almost 43 million qualified people in the workforce. This decrease, despite predicted high migration, suggests that there will be an increase in demand for workers in the future. Which sectors are be affected the most? Although it is clear that Germany is and will continue to face a shortage of skilled workers, the question remains, which industries will suffer the most? Different data gives slightly different answers to this question, but several professions always seem to have a shortage of labor. Among these were social work, care for the elderly, and the building of electronics. Though the availability of jobs and demand for workers is a good position for employees to be in, it is a stressful situation for companies. According to a survey conducted in 2024, the third largest business risk that companies saw for themselves in the coming months was a skilled workers shortage. Ultimately, companies will have to find a solution to this shortage in order to ensure the continued success of their business.

Total Unfilled Job Vacancies for the United States was 10781000.00000 Persons in February of 2022, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, Total Unfilled Job Vacancies for the United States reached a record high of 11901000.00000 in July of 2021 and a record low of 2157000.00000 in December of 2009. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Total Unfilled Job Vacancies for the United States - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on March of 2025.

This table contains seasonally adjusted figures for unfilled, new and filled vacancies. The phrase 'seasonally adjusted' refers to the total number of vacancies in the private and public sectors at the end of each quarter.

The following relationship applies to vacancies: Unfilled (t) - Unfilled (t-1) = New (t) - Filled (t) Where t is a quarter.

This table contains the number of vacancies per quarter.

Data available from: 1st quarter of 1997.

Status of the figures: The figures of 2024 are provisional, all other figures are final. Seasonally adjusted figures may be marginally adjusted at the end of the year under review.

Changes as of 14 February 2025: Figures of the fourth quarter of 2024 have been added.

When will new figures be published? Figures of the first quarter of 2025 will be published in April/May 2025.

Graph and download economic data for Infra-Annual Registered Unemployment and Job Vacancies: Total Economy: Unfilled Vacancies for Spain (LMJVTTUVESA647S) from 1977 to 2004 about job openings, Spain, jobs, and vacancy.

In the three months to February 2025, there were approximately 816,000 job vacancies in the UK, compared with 914,000 during the same period a year earlier. 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.

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Vacancies by industry.

This table contains the numbers of unfilled job vacancies per quarter. The data on vacancies are available for sectors of the Standard Industrial Classification (SBI), country regions and provinces.

Data available from: first quarter of 2011.

Status of the figures: The figures as of 2023 are provisional, figures up to and including 2021 are final.

Changes as of 14 February 2025: Figures of the fourth quarter of 2024 have been added.

When will new figures be published? Figures of the first quarter of 2025 will be published in April/May 2025.

As of the fourth quarter of 2024, there were estimated to be 142,000 job vacancies in the human health and social work activities industry sector in the United Kingdom, the most of any industry. The sector with the fewest number of job vacancies in this month was mining and quarrying, with only two thousand estimated vacancies.

Unfilled Job Vacancies in the Private Sector for the United States was 9936000.00000 Thous. of Persons in October of 2021, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, Unfilled Job Vacancies in the Private Sector for the United States reached a record high of 9936000.00000 in October of 2021 and a record low of 2060000.00000 in July of 2009. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Unfilled Job Vacancies in the Private Sector for the United States - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on March of 2025.

Between the first quarter of 2017 and the fourth quarter of 2022, the number of unfilled vacancies in the hospitality industry in the Netherlands fluctuated, displaying an overall upwards trend. In the second quarter of 2022 there were close to 44.6 thousand unfilled vacancies in the Dutch hospitality industry. This was an increase of about 15 thousand vacancies compared to the previous year.

Netherlands Number of Job Vacancies: Unfilled data was reported at 396.400 Unit th in Sep 2024. This records a decrease from the previous number of 418.900 Unit th for Jun 2024. Netherlands Number of Job Vacancies: Unfilled data is updated quarterly, averaging 163.400 Unit th from Mar 1997 (Median) to Sep 2024, with 111 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 479.800 Unit th in Jun 2022 and a record low of 81.800 Unit th in Sep 2003. Netherlands Number of Job Vacancies: Unfilled data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Statistics Netherlands. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Netherlands – Table NL.G023: Number of Job Vacancies: Standard Industrial Classification 2008. [COVID-19-IMPACT]

As of June 2021, the United States had the most job vacancies among the listed countries, with 6.89 million unoccupied positions. Russia ranked second, with 2.57 open job positions.

Netherlands Number of Job Vacancies: Education: Unfilled data was reported at 8.500 Unit th in Jun 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 5.800 Unit th for Mar 2018. Netherlands Number of Job Vacancies: Education: Unfilled data is updated quarterly, averaging 4.900 Unit th from Mar 1997 (Median) to Jun 2018, with 86 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 8.500 Unit th in Jun 2018 and a record low of 2.600 Unit th in Sep 2013. Netherlands Number of Job Vacancies: Education: Unfilled data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Statistics Netherlands. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Netherlands – Table NL.G021: Number of Job Vacancies: Standard Industrial Classification 2008.

Sweden Number of Vacancies: Monthly: Unfilled data was reported at 87,898.000 Unit in Oct 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 81,792.000 Unit for Sep 2018. Sweden Number of Vacancies: Monthly: Unfilled data is updated monthly, averaging 30,536.500 Unit from May 1992 (Median) to Oct 2018, with 318 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 148,884.000 Unit in Feb 2018 and a record low of 4,557.000 Unit in Dec 1992. Sweden Number of Vacancies: Monthly: Unfilled data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Swedish Public Employment Service. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Sweden – Table SE.G027: Number of Vacancies. Unfilled means the places are still available at this week's/month's end but it is not sketchily reported.

This table contains the number of unfilled, new and filled vacancies in the government and education. The figures over vacancies are specified to government sector.

This table replaces the StatLine-table Vacancies; government and education 1992-2009. In 2010 the observation is based on the standard industrial classification 2008, SIC2008. Because of this the original figures of the period 1997 up to the second quarter of 2009, all based on SIC 1993, are recalculated to SIC 2008. Therefore these figures can deviate slightly from the figures from the Vacancies; government and education 1992-2009.

Data available since 1997, quarter 1.

Status of the figures: The figures in this table are final.

In the period from the third quarter of 2008 until the fourth quarter of 2009 the job vacancy-survey compiled the job vacancies at the Ministry of Defence according to a different method. Due to this approximately 7 thousand vacancies per quarter have been added to the government. This should be taken into account, when interpreting the results. Because of this extra number of vacancies, the numbers of vacancies, new vacancies and filled vacancies in this period are not completely consistent with the vacancies in the second quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2010. The results of this table are including the second quarter of 2009 based on recalculated information on basis of the perception according SBI 2008. Because of this the numbers of vacancies, new vacancies and filled vacancies are in the third quarter of 2009 not completely consistent with the vacancies in the second quarter.

Changes as of 14 February 2025: Figures of the fourth quarter of 2024 and year figures of 2024 have been added.

When will new figures be published? Figures of the first quarter of 2025 will be published in April/May 2025.

Belgium and The Netherlands had the highest job vacancy rate in the European Union in the second quarter of 2024, at 4.4 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 2.4 percent, while for the Euro area - which contains 20 of 27 member states - it was 2.6 percent.

Number of job vacancies and payroll employees, job vacancy rate, and average offered hourly wage by province and territory, last 5 quarters.

Netherlands Number of Job Vacancies: PS: Unfilled: Education data was reported at 1.600 Unit th in Mar 2018. This stayed constant from the previous number of 1.600 Unit th for Dec 2017. Netherlands Number of Job Vacancies: PS: Unfilled: Education data is updated quarterly, averaging 1.200 Unit th from Mar 1997 (Median) to Mar 2018, with 85 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 3.000 Unit th in Jun 2007 and a record low of 0.300 Unit th in Sep 1997. Netherlands Number of Job Vacancies: PS: Unfilled: Education data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Statistics Netherlands. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Netherlands – Table NL.G021: Number of Job Vacancies: Standard Industrial Classification 2008.