The number of job openings which the employer wished to be filled immediately were 85 500 while the number of job vacancies (job openings excluding substitutes) were 114 500.

Of the total number of job openings, 115 000 were in the business sector. In public administration, there were 32 100 job openings, of which 7 300 were in central government and 16 900 respectively 7 800 in municipalities and county councils.

Human health and social work establishments is the industry with the largest number of job openings and from a regional perspective, most job openings were located in the big city areas of Stockholm, Västra Götaland and Skåne.

Recruitment needs within human health and social work establishments

In the last six months

• 45 percent of employers had experienced recruitment issues
• 24 percent of employers had not experienced recruitment issues
• 31 percent of employers did not recruit or tried to recruit at all

It was more common to experience recruitment issues for employers within human health and social work establishments, mining, quarrying and manufacturing industry and information and communication companies.

If the employers did not manage to hire as many workers as they need, it can be an indicator of labour shortage. Among the employers that tried to recruit in the last six months, 62 percent managed to hire the number of employees that they sought, while 38 percent did not succeed. Not succeeding to fill their demand for labour was especially common among employers within human health and social work establishments (60 percent).

In the following year

• 29 percent of employers expect to increase their number of employees
• 12 percent of employers expect to decrease their number of employees
• 35 percent of employers expect their number of employees to remain unchanged
• 25 percent of employers cannot estimate their hiring plans

The most positive hiring plans is within information and communication, professional, scientific and technical, administrative and support service companies, where more than 40 percent of employers expect their employees to increase in the following year.

The most pessimistic hiring plans is within educational establishments, where 32 percent of employers expect their employees to decrease in the following year.

Job openings and recruitment needs

Is a new survey which has replaced the surveys Job openings and unmet labour demand, Labour market tendency survey and the Labour market outlook survey. Job openings and recruitment needs will report statistics on job openings, recruitment problems and skills needs. The statistics is used to analyse the economy and make forecasts about the economic situation, and it is part of the European Labour Market statistics on Businesses.

There are some substantial discrepancies between the design of Job openings and recruitment needs and that of Job openings and unmet labour demand, which was the base for official statistics regarding job vacancies up until the first quarter of 2024. Therefore, it is advised to take precaution in comparison over time.

Seasonally adjusted values are initially available for the total number of job openings and is presented together with the unadjusted time series for the total number of job openings in the same table.

Since the statistics is based on a sample survey, it is associated with some selection bias. Therefore, the margin of error obtaining to each statistical value is presented as well.

Friday August 29th.