Against the first quarter of 2026, the number of job vacancies went down by 1,800 and the rate remaind relatively unchanged.
Over one fifth of the total number of job vacancies was concentrated in manufacturing (5.6 thousand job vacancies) and the value rate was 0.54%.
In the second quarter 2026, the highest job vacancies rates were registered in electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply (1.41%), financial and insurance activities (1.03%), transportation and storage (0.94%), respectively in arts, sports and recreation (0.90%).
The budgetary sector summed up over 19% of the total number of job vacancies. Thus, 2.7 thousand job vacancies were found in human health and social work activities, 1.4 thousand job vacancies in public administration, and 1.0 thousand job vacancies in education.
The fewest job vacancies were found in mining and quarrying and real estate activities (0.1 thousand job vacancies each).
The job vacancies rate registered the lowest values in mining and quarrying (0.16%), respectively in other service activities (0.23%).
In the second quarter 2026, the highest values of the job vacancies rate were found for occupations related to professionals – major group 2 (0.59%), craft and related trades workers – major group 7, respectively elementary occupations – major group 9 (0.55% each).
The number of job vacancies knew the highest values for the occupations related to professionals – major group 2 (7.1 thousand job vacancies), followed by service and sales workers – major group 5 (4.1 thousand job vacancies), and elementary occupations – major group 9 (3.7 thousand job vacancies).
The lowest values for both indicators were noticed for occupations related to managers – major group 1 (0.26%, respectively 1.0 thousand job vacancies) and skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers – major group 6 (0.28%, respectively under 100 job vacancies).
(English version by Catalina Apostoiu)