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Clearly fewer open job vacancies in the second quarter of 2023 than one year earlier

release 18/08/2023 | Job vacancy survey 2023, 2nd quarter

According to Statistics Finland, there were 52,700 open job vacancies in the second quarter of 2023, while the figure was 72,300 one year earlier. The data describe the situation on the first day of June.

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In the second quarter, open job vacancies decreased significantly in the major region of Helsinki-Uusimaa (- 9,200) compared to one year earlier.
There were industry-specific changes in the number of job vacancies, which was primarily visible in the significant fall in the number of job vacancies in industry (B to E) and in the industry group of trade, transportation and storage, accommodation and food service activities (G to I).
Open job vacancies have decreased from one year ago particularly in the private sector (- 14,700) and in the central government sector (- 1,300).

Characteristics of job vacancies

In the second quarter of 2023, altogether 35,800 or 68 per cent of job vacancies were in establishments owned by private enterprises. Open job vacancies decreased considerably in the private sector compared to one year earlier. The number of open job vacancies also decreased significantly in the major region of Helsinki-Uusimaa (- 9,200) and slightly in Northern and Eastern Finland (- 5,100) and Western Finland (- 4,700).

Examined by the industry of the establishment, job vacancies decreased considerably in industry (B to E) and in the industry group of trade, transport and storage, accommodation and food service activities (G to I) and diminished or remained almost unchanged in the other industry groups.

Open job vacancies in the second quarter of 2022 and 2023

	2022Q2, number	2022Q2, share, %	2023Q2, number	2023Q2, share, %
Job vacancies	72 300	100	52 700	100
Part-time	12 400	17	9 300	18
Fixed term	21 900	30	16 200	31
Hard to fill	47 200	65	33 100	63

The sub-groups are not mutually exclusive so their sum does not correspond with the total number of open job vacancies.

In the second quarter, 31 per cent of all job vacancies were fixed-term, which was more or less the same as in the corresponding period of the year before. The share of part-time jobs in all open job vacancies was 18 per cent, which also corresponds to the level in the corresponding period last year.

Employers estimated that 63 per cent of the open job vacancies were hard-to-fill, while the corresponding share was 65 per cent one year earlier. For example, there were plenty of jobs considered hard to fill in establishments of human health and social work activities (Q) in the tasks of practical nurses and registered nurses and in establishments of construction (F) in fitter occupations.