Job openings and recruitment needs
Upcoming publishing: 2026-05-29
Statistics Sweden and the Swedish Public Employment Service are currently developing a new survey which will replace the surveys Job openings and unmet labour demand, Labour market tendency survey and the Labour market outlook survey. The new survey, Job openings and recruitment needs, will report statistics on job openings, recruitment problems and skills needs, the latter for a selection of occupations.
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2026-03-06
Last year, Swedish employers experienced a labour shortage of 61 000 people across various occupations. The size of the shortage was roughly the same for occupations that require upper secondary education as for occupations that require post secondary education. This is shown in Statistics Sweden’s survey Job openings and recruitment needs, which for the second time presents statistics on the skills shortage in the Swedish labour market.
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