Jobs Online
Jobs Online is a regular data series that measures changes in online job advertisements from 4 internet job boards – Seek, Trade Me Jobs, Education Gazette and Kiwi Health Jobs.
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Information about our new data processing pipeline
- MBIE has redeveloped the Jobs Online data processing pipeline. The switch to the new process has not resulted in any major changes to the Jobs Online data series.
- The All Vacancies Index is very similar. There are minor differences in the breakdowns of region, industry, occupation and skill level, but these do not change the overall patterns of the time series.
- All the quarterly data series are no longer being seasonally adjusted. Users are recommended to do annual comparisons to avoid seasonal effects.
- MBIE has done extensive testing and is fully confident in the robustness of all Jobs Online data. However, because of the minor changes noted above, users are advised to re-download the full data series rather than just appending the latest data point.
- There will be no interruption to the Jobs Online processing schedule resulting from this processing change.
Jobs Online – Information about our new data processing pipeline [PDF, 292 KB]
Jobs Online monthly data release
This file is updated monthly. It currently contains data from May 2007 through to January 2025.
Jobs Online – Monthly Unadjusted Series from May 2007 [CSV, 39 KB]
Jobs Online quarterly release
Overview of key trends
- Demand continued to weaken with online job advertisements falling by 27.2% over the year to the December 2024 quarter. This is the ninth consecutive quarter of decline since December 2022, consistent with a falling employment rate that peaked in 2022, see the Household labour force survey for more statistics:
Household labour force survey: September 2024 quarter [XLSX](external link) – Stats NZ - Advertisements fell for all industries. The biggest annual fall was for the Healthcare industry and the smallest annual fall was for the Primary industry.
- All occupation groups experienced a drop in online job advertisements, with the Labourers occupation group seeing the largest annual decline, and Technicians & trades the smallest decline.
- Online job advertisements continued to decline across all 5 skill levels over the year to the December 2024 quarter. The biggest drop was in unskilled job ads, while skilled roles saw the smallest decline.
- Regional declines varied in magnitude over the year to the December 2024 quarter.
- Over the past 5 years to the December 2024 quarter, advertisements fell in all regions, all occupations, all skill levels, and in all industries, except Education.
Download the latest quarterly report
Jobs Online quarterly report – December 2024 [PDF 1.4MB]
Quarterly release data files
Note: The file 'Jobs Online Detailed occupational data' is now a csv file and the formats of the variable names have changed.
Jobs Online – Detailed occupational data – December 2024 quarter [CSV, 497 KB]
Jobs Online – All vacancies – Unadjusted quarterly [XLSX, 78 KB]
Jobs Online – Vacancies by industry – Unadjusted quarterly [XLSX, 161 KB]
Jobs Online – Vacancies by occupation – Unadjusted quarterly [XLSX, 124 KB]
Jobs Online – Vacancies by skilled/unskilled – Unadjusted quarterly [XLSX, 40 KB]
Jobs Online – Vacancies by skills – Unadjusted quarterly [XLSX, 87 KB]
Jobs Online – Quarterly AVI growth charts [CSV, 32 KB]
All unadjusted data in the above Excel files is available in this consolidated file:
Jobs Online – All unadjusted quarterly data consolidated [CSV, 756 KB]
About Jobs Online
Jobs Online monitors changes in an index of online job advertisements, not the number of actual online job advertisements. It uses information from online job advertisements from 4 internet job boards: SEEK, Trade Me Jobs, the Education Gazette and Kiwi Health Jobs.
Online job advertisements are a proxy for all job advertisements as there are other forms of advertising. Online job advertisements are also a proxy for job vacancies, a key indicator of labour demand, as some vacancies are not advertised. Duplicate advertisements within each job board, across job boards and months are removed.
The relationship between online job advertisements and labour demand is complex, particularly when disaggregated at an industry, occupation and regional level. For example, an increase in job advertisements in a particular industry may indicate the industry is expanding, and looking for new workers, or the industry has a high rate of turnover or churn (workers are moving between businesses, but overall employment is not necessarily increasing). Likewise, a decline in online job advertisements can signal reduced employment in an industry, or that the industry is using alternatives to online advertising in their hiring processes (such as word-of-mouth or social networks). Alternatively, a decline in online advertisements may signal an industry has less turnover than before.
This report uses the All Vacancies Index (AVI) to measure changes. The AVI is calculated by using raw unweighted data from the 4 internet job boards mentioned above. Comparisons using the AVI can be distorted by small numbers of online job advertisements.
With these caveats in mind, data from Jobs Online tracks well in terms of the direction of change of other labour market indicators, such as the unemployment rate.
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