Jobs and Skills Australia (JSA) develops products that can help inform Australia’s current and future skills needs. The 2023 Skills Priority List (SPL) shows that 36% of occupations assessed were in national shortage. JSA adopted a typology of skills shortages that provides a simple approach to a complex set of labour market dynamics and a helpful starting point for both analysing the causes and potential solutions to skills shortages.

This insights report adds a new layer of intelligence to SPL to assist in understanding of how workers move between occupations in the labour market. Its purpose is to demonstrate potential use cases of the Data on Occupation Mobility (DOM) by exploring how workers change occupations at a broad level and using case studies to investigate attraction and retention of workers in certain occupations.