Jobs Online

Jobs Online monthly data release

Jobs Online Monthly Unadjusted Series from May 2007 to October 2023 [CSV, 37 KB]

Jobs Online quarterly release

Overview of key trends

• There has been a decline in online job advertising, even though firms continue to hire more people. Job advertising was down in the September 2023 quarter (down 4.9% compared to the previous quarter) and over the year to September 2023 (down 24.5%).
• Online job advertising for all industries fell over the quarter to September 2023. The biggest fall was for the Manufacturing industry and the smallest fall was for the Education industry.
• Job vacancies for all occupation groups fell with the smallest fall for Clerical & administration. The biggest quarterly fall was in the Labourers and Machinery Operators & Drivers occupation groups.
• Job vacancies advertised online declined across all five skill levels compared to the previous quarter. The smallest decline was for Skilled vacancies (down 2.3%) which fell in all regions except Northland and Gisborne/Hawke’s Bay.
• Compared to the previous quarter, online job advertisements decreased in all regions. Northland saw the smallest fall in overall online advertising due to growth in the Health care, Education, Sales, Construction and Business Services industries.
• Advertised job vacancies in most regions are lower than otherwise would be expected at this time of year.

Jobs online quarterly report – September 2023 [PDF, 1.1 MB]

Quarterly release data files

Note: The file 'Jobs Online Detailed occupational data' is now a csv file and the formats of the variable names have changed.

Jobs Online Detailed occupational data – September 2023 quarter [CSV, 11 KB]

Jobs Online Seasonally adjusted data – September 2023 quarter [XLSX, 81 KB]

Jobs Online Vacancies trend quarterly [XLSX, 80 KB]

Jobs Online Vacancies by Industry seasonally adjusted quarterly [XLSX, 170 KB]

Jobs Online Vacancies by Industry trend quarterly [XLSX, 170 KB]

Jobs Online Vacancies by Occupation seasonally adjusted quarterly [XLSX, 140 KB]

Jobs Online Vacancies by Occupation trend quarterly [XLSX, 139 KB]

Jobs Online Vacancies by Skilled/Unskilled seasonally adjusted quarterly [XLSX, 44 KB]

Jobs Online Vacancies by Skilled/Unskilled trend quarterly [XLSX, 44 KB]

Jobs Online Vacancies by Skills seasonally adjusted quarterly [XLSX, 92 KB]

Jobs Online Vacancies by Skills trend quarterly [XLSX, 91 KB]

Jobs Online Quarterly AVI growth charts [CSV, 45 KB]

All the trend data in the above Excel files is available in this consolidated file [CSV, 706 KB]

About Jobs Online

This report highlights the latest Jobs Online data up to June 2023. Jobs Online monitors changes in an index of online job advertisements, not the number of actual online job advertisements. It uses information from online job advertisements from 4 internet job boards: SEEK, Trade Me Jobs, the Education Gazeze and Kiwi Health Jobs.

Comparisons have been made between June 2023 and the previous quarter (March 2023) and with the previous year (June 2022).

Online job advertisements are a proxy for all job advertisements as there are other forms of advertising. Online job advertisements are also a proxy for job vacancies, a key indicator of labour demand, as some vacancies are not advertised. Duplicate advertisements within each job board, across job boards and months are removed.

The relationship between online job advertisements and labour demand is complex, particularly when disaggregated at an industry, occupation and regional level. For example, an increase in job advertisements in a particular industry may indicate the industry is expanding, and looking for new workers, or the industry has a high rate of turnover or churn (workers are moving between businesses, but overall employment is not necessarily increasing). Likewise, a decline in online job advertisements can signal reduced employment in an industry, or that the industry is using alternatives to online advertising in their hiring processes (such as word-of-mouth or social networks). Alternatively, a decline in online advertisements may signal an industry has less turnover than before.

This report uses the All Vacancies Index (AVI) to measure changes. The AVI is calculated by using raw unweighted data from the four internet job boards mentioned above. Comparisons using the AVI can be distorted by small numbers of online job advertisements.

With these caveats in mind, data from Jobs Online tracks well in terms of the direction of change of other labour market indicators, such as the unemployment rate.

The monthly unadjusted vacancies from May 2007 to June 2023 are now published online: Jobs Online monthly unadjusted data. This data shows the monthly patterns of online job advertising.

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