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.
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 October 2024.
Jobs Online Monthly Unadjusted Series from May 2007 [CSV, 38 KB]
Jobs Online quarterly release
Overview of key trends
- Demand continued to weaken with online job advertisements falling by 31.4% over the year to the September 2024 quarter.
- Advertisements fell for all industries. The biggest annual falls were in the IT, Health care, Manufacturing, Business services, and Construction industries. The smallest annual fall was for the Education industry.
- All occupation groups experienced a drop in online job advertisements, with Clerical & administration, Machinery operators & drivers, and Labourers occupation groups seeing the largest annual declines.
- Online job advertisements continued to decline across all 5 skill levels over the year to the September 2024 quarter.
- Over the past 5 years to the September 2024 quarter, vacancies fell in most industries, occupations, skill levels, and regions, although regional results vary.
- The fall in vacancies over the year to the September 2024 quarter is consistent with NZIER’s 'Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion' which reports that a net 33.5% of firms had a fall in the number of people employed in the last quarter. Additionally, a net 8.9% of firms expect that the numbers employed will fall in the next quarter. Despite this, business confidence improved with a net 1% of firms reporting that they expected general business to decline over the next quarter, compared with a net 52% of firms expecting a decline in business over the next quarter a year prior.
Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion – October 2024(external link) — New Zealand Economic Institute of Economic Research
Download the latest quarterly report
Jobs online quarterly report – September 2024 [PDF 1.3MB]
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 – September 2024 quarter [CSV, 490 KB]
Jobs Online Vacancies unadjusted quarterly [XLSX, 83 KB]
Jobs Online Vacancies by Industry unadjusted quarterly [XLSX, 165 KB]
Jobs Online Vacancies by Occupation unadjusted quarterly [XLSX, 129 KB]
Jobs Online Vacancies by Skilled/Unskilled unadjusted quarterly [XLSX, 40 KB]
Jobs Online Vacancies by Skills unadjusted quarterly [XLSX, 93 KB]
Jobs Online Quarterly AVI growth charts [CSV, 32 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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