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Job vacancies. By economic activity groups

Job vacancies. By economic activity groups Catalonia. 2nd quarter 2025
Value Variation quarterly % Variation year-over-year %
Food, textile, wood, paper and printing 1,272 7.1 44.2
Chemical and rubber 517 -12.8 -23.7
Metallurgy, machinery, electrical and transport equipment 851 -30.5 -15.1
Rest of the industry 94 -56.7 -61.3
Construction 1,041 -38.4 90.3
Trade 2,627 -44.2 -26.5
Transport, storage and hospitality 3,079 -31.0 104.2
Information and communication 2,038 -17.6 -10.7
Financial, insurance, real estate, professional and technical activities 3,009 5.1 7.0
Administrative and support service activities 2,580 -19.6 -26.5
Public administration 4,712 -20.6 13.8
Education, health and social services 3,113 28.1 -13.9
Cultural and sports activities and other services 1,391 45.2 139.8
Total 26,323 -17.6 3.7
Units: Number.
Source: Idescat, based on the INE's Quarterly Labour Cost Survey.

Last update: December 16, 2025. Next update: December 16, 2025 Calendari

Methodological note

The Quarterly Labour Cost Survey (QLCS) is a continuous sample-based statistical operation conducted by the National Statistical Institute (INE). Since the third quarter of 2013, the QLCS includes a new section for the preparation of Vacancy Statistics (VE), which are mandatory, given that it is regulated by Regulation 453/2008 of the European Parliament and Council. Until the fourth quarter of 2012, the VE was produced based on the data provided by the Labour Situation Survey (developed by the Ministry for Labour and Social Security).

A vacancy or job offer is understood to be the job that has either been recently created, or is not occupied, or is about to become free, and for which the employer takes active measures with the aim of finding a suitable person from outside the company to fill it.

Job vacancies reflect, in part, the unmet demand for labour, as well as potential mismatches between the capacity and the availability of unemployed people and the workers that employers are looking for.

The population studied in the QLCS is made up of all the contribution accounts included in the Social Security General Regime and the Special Coal Mining Regime, regardless of their size. The QLCS takes into account all workers that paid at least one day worth of Social Security contributions during the reference month and studies the contribution accounts whose activity is carried out within one of the three main economic sectors: industry, construction and services, particularly those included in sections C to K and M to O of the Catalan Classification of Economic Activities from 1993, Revision 1 (CCAE-93 Rev.1). Therefore, agriculture, fishing, Public administration, mandatory defence and Social Security, household services and extraterritorial bodies are excluded from the survey.

Tables that detail the number of jobs vacancies may present data rounding problems, since employment units or positions must be inserted as whole numbers so they can be interpreted correctly once the weighting factors have been applied.

For further information about these statistics, you may check the methodology.