Job vacancies fall in the second quarter of 2025
Job vacancies fell by 18,900 (-3.6%) to 505,900 in the second quarter of 2025, following a decrease of 20,000 (-3.7%) in the first quarter. Compared with the second quarter of 2024, job vacancies were down by 72,900 (-12.6%) in the second quarter of 2025. The number of vacancies in the second quarter was the lowest recorded since the first quarter of 2018 (501,500).
In the second quarter of 2025, job vacancies fell in full-time positions (-20,300; -5.1%), while there was little change for part-time positions. Vacancies fell in both permanent (-14,600; -3.4%) and temporary (-4,300; -4.5%) positions.
Total labour demand (the sum of filled and vacant positions) fell by 54,800 (-0.3%) in the second quarter due to a combined decrease in both job vacancies (-18,900; -3.6%) and payroll employment (-36,000; -0.2%).
The job vacancy rate—which corresponds to the number of vacant positions as a proportion of total labour demand—fell by 0.1 percentage points to 2.8% in the second quarter. On a year-over-year basis, the job vacancy rate was down 0.4 percentage points.
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