The headline
There were 211,500 new online job ads across Australia in , seasonally adjusted. Over the month, ads held steady (up less than 0.1%). Over the year they were up 1.5% on , which our rule calls steady. Against the monthly average, they were up 23.2%.
The unemployment rate was 4.7% in , seasonally adjusted: up 0.1 points on the month and up 0.3 points on the year, which our rule calls rising. Employment stood at 14,782,700 people, down 0.3% on the month and up 1.2% on the year.
Occupations
Major groups, from the biggest rise over the year to the biggest fall:
- Machinery Operators and Drivers: 14,100 ads, up 12.5% on the year (rising).
- Managers: 25,700 ads, up 5.2% on the year (rising).
- Labourers: 14,600 ads, up 4.8% on the year (steady).
- Technicians and Trades Workers: 30,500 ads, up 3.1% on the year (steady).
- Professionals: 60,900 ads, up 1.7% on the year (steady).
- Sales Workers: 16,300 ads, down 0.5% on the year (steady).
- Clerical and Administrative Workers: 30,100 ads, down 3.9% on the year (steady).
- Community and Personal Service Workers: 19,700 ads, down 4.2% on the year (steady).
Among detailed groups with at least a thousand ads in both months, the biggest rises over the year:
- Medical Practitioners and Nurses: up 21.6%, to 14,800 ads.
- Engineers: up 18.7%, to 5,150 ads.
- Arts and Media Professionals: up 14.4%, to 1,280 ads.
And the biggest falls:
- Education Professionals: down 19.6%, to 2,950 ads.
- ICT Professionals: down 12.4%, to 5,900 ads.
- Sales Representatives and Agents: down 10.6%, to 4,520 ads.
States and territories
- New South Wales: ads down 0.3% on the year (steady); unemployment rate 4.7%, up 0.5 points on the year.
- Victoria: ads up 0.1% on the year (steady); unemployment rate 5.1%, up 0.3 points on the year.
- Queensland: ads up 1.4% on the year (steady); unemployment rate 4.5%, up 0.4 points on the year.
- South Australia: ads up 5.2% on the year (rising); unemployment rate 4.2%, down 0.3 points on the year.
- Western Australia: ads up 8.3% on the year (rising); unemployment rate 4.2%, down 0.1 points on the year.
- Tasmania: ads down 0.7% on the year (steady); unemployment rate 5.0%, up 0.5 points on the year.
- Northern Territory: ads down 5.5% on the year (falling); unemployment rate 4.8%, up 0.5 points on the year (trend).
- Australian Capital Territory: ads down 5.3% on the year (falling); unemployment rate 4.2%, up 0.1 points on the year (trend).
Regions
Three-month averages, among regions with at least five hundred ads a month.
Biggest rises over the year:
- Southern Highlands & Snowy (NSW): up 21.6%, to an average of 1,300 ads a month.
- Port Augusta & Eyre Peninsula (SA): up 11.9%, to an average of 730 ads a month.
- Blue Mountains, Bathurst & Central West NSW (NSW): up 11.2%, to an average of 2,360 ads a month.
Biggest falls over the year:
- Darwin (NT): down 11.2%, to an average of 1,920 ads a month.
- Hobart & Southeast Tasmania (TAS): down 9.4%, to an average of 1,640 ads a month.
- Gold Coast (QLD): down 6.1%, to an average of 6,140 ads a month.
Next
Jobs and Skills Australia publishes the Internet Vacancy Index monthly. The ABS lists its next Labour Force release for . We will load each release when it is out.