Slightly fewer open job vacancies in the second quarter of 2024 than one year earlier

Characteristics of job vacancies

In the second quarter of 2024, altogether 34,700 or 74 per cent of the job vacancies were in establishments owned by private enterprises. The number of open job vacancies decreased compared to one year ago, for example in establishments of municipalities, joint municipal authorities and wellbeing services counties (-2,100). The number of job vacancies also decreased in establishments with 10 to 49 employees (-5,100) or more than 50 employees (-2,000).

The number of open job vacancies decreased in the major regions of Southern Finland (-6,500) and Helsinki-Uusimaa (-4,700) compared to one year earlier. In other major regions changes in the number of job vacancies were smaller and open job vacancies increased slightly in Northern and Eastern Finland (+3,200) together with Western Finland (+2,000).

Examined by the industry of the establishment, job vacancies decreased in the industry groups public administration, education, human health and social work activities (-5,600), as well as trade, transportation and storage, accommodation and food service activities (-2,700).

In the second quarter, 35 per cent of all open job vacancies were fixed-term positions, while one year earlier the corresponding share was 31 per cent. The share of part-time jobs in all open job vacancies was 19 per cent, which is slightly more than in the previous year. Employers estimated that 43 per cent of the open job vacancies were hard-to-fill, which is 20 percentage points lower than one year before (63%).