Tech and science roles see drop in job vacancies, manufacturing sees rise

Manufacturing labourers recorded the largest increase in job vacancy rates in the EU between 2019 and 2023, according to Eurostat, signalling growing recruitment difficulties in that occupation.

The figures, which compare developments before the Covid-19 pandemic in 2019 with figures for 2023, indicate that the job vacancy rate for manufacturing labourers rose by 4.2 percentage points over the period.

The next largest increases were observed among sales, marketing and development managers, whose vacancy rate climbed by 3.