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• Euro Area Job Vacancy Rate: Q1 2025 2025-06-16 05:00
  

  The euro area job vacancy rate fell to 2.4% in Q1 2025, down from 2.3% in Q4 2024 and the lowest since Q2 2021.

  • The industry and construction vacancy rate fell to 2.1%, down from 2.2% in the previous quarter.
  • The services vacancy rate was unchanged at 2.7%.
  • The highest vacancy rates are in the professional & technical services (3.3%), accommodation & food service (3.4%), and admin & support services (3.9%) industries.

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• Euro Area Job Vacancy Rate: Q4 2024 2025-03-18 05:00
  

  The euro area job vacancy rate was unchanged from the previous quarter at 2.5% in Q4 2024, sitting just above the pre-pandemic rate of 2.3%.

  • Vacancy rates were 2.2% in both industry and construction, and 2.7% in services.
  • The services sector continues to see high vacancy rates. Admin & support services has the highest vacancy rate of all industries at 4.1% following by information & communications at 3.2%.
  • The manufacturing and mining & quarrying vacancy rates are among the lowest at 1.8% and 1.3% respectively.
  • Over the course of 2024, the vacancy rate fell -0.4 ppts with most of that decline coming in Q2 2024.

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• Euro Area 2024-12-16 05:00
  

  The euro area job vacancy rate eased from 2.6% in Q2 2024 to 2.5% in Q3 2024 and down from the near-term peak of 3.3% in Q2 2022. Vacancy rates were 2.1% in industry and construction, and 2.7% in services. The vacancy rate is not just 0.1 ppt above the peak 2019 vacancy rate of 2.4% (set in Q1 2019).

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