Labor market analysis
Production has the most open jobs
The big data job platform Jobfeed analyzed 2.28 million job vacancies in the third quarter. The result: the number of vacancies increased by 5.2% compared to 2016 - especially in production.
In the third quarter of 2017, the number of jobs advertised rose by 5.2%, according to an analysis by Jobfeed. According to the analysis, a total of 3.9 million job advertisements were published online on job boards and company career pages. 1.65 million of these were duplicates, which Jobfeed identified and summarized.
Direct link: Job vacancies in the field of production can be found here at Markt&Technik Job
Of these 2.28 million duplicate-free job advertisements, over 1 million come from direct employers, with most advertisements coming from large companies with more than 5,000 employees (20.7%), followed by medium-sized companies with 50-199 employees (18.1%).
Adjusted for job advertisements for internships, freelance work, part-time jobs, voluntary work and volunteering, Jobfeed comes to the following conclusion for the third quarter of 2017:
- The number of job ads increased by 5.2%.
- Daimler, Bertrandt, Deutsche Bahn and Bosch posted the most.
- Most jobs can be found in production.
- North Rhine-Westphalia gained 1.6% market share of jobs published online per federal state, overtaking Bavaria for the first time.
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