Jobs and Skills Australia surveys around 1000 employers each month to understand their recruitment experiences and staffing expectations. The monthly survey reports provide data on recruitment activity, difficulty, staffing outlook, reasons for recruiting and more.

This report examines trends in the Australian labour market, specifically comparing employment growth in the public and private sectors from 2014 to 2024. It finds that public sector jobs make up an increasing share of the total workforce, with the vast majority of new jobs post-Covid in the public sector.

The report identifies 37 emerging roles in the Australian labour market across four areas: net zero, health care and medical, data and technologies and science and engineering. The report provides a detailed analysis of the skills required for these roles and their projected growth in the coming years.

This report builds on the understanding of Australia’s workforce and skills recovery from COVID-19. The report analyses the impact of the pandemic on Australia's labour market, through scenario modelling, and profiles a resilient occupations framework.

This report examines the job market of four key industries in regional Australia, which included food processing, tourism, advanced manufacturing and creative industries. It highlights ‘hotspots’ that could help drive the economic future of local economies, and is designed to spark conversations at all levels of government, industry and within regional communities.