Saccording to a Dares study, the rate of vacant jobs in France rose to 2.6% in the third quarter of 2024 in private sector companies, compared to 2.9% a year earlier and 3.4% at the end of 2022 A vacant position is defined as “a vacant position, newly created or unoccupied, or occupied and about to become available, for which active steps are being taken to find the suitable candidate”.
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In total, 520,000 jobs were vacant in France in the third quarter of 2024, a drop of 4% compared to the previous quarter, with declines of 10% in industry, of 4% in the tertiary sector, but, on the other hand, an increase of 3% in the construction sector. In detail, 46% of jobs declared vacant correspond to unoccupied jobs, 30% to newly created jobs and 24% to jobs still occupied and about to become available. Compared to its peak of 675,000, reached in the fourth quarter of 2022, the number of vacant jobs is down sharply by 23%.
According to Eurostat data this time, the job vacancy rate stood at 2.3% in the third quarter of 2024 in the European Union, compared to 2.4% three months earlier and 3.1% in the second. quarter 2022. The highest job vacancy rates are observed in The Netherlands (4.3%), in Belgium (4.2%) and Austria (3.8%) while, conversely, the lowest rates are observed in Romania and Bulgaria (0.8%), as well as in Poland and Spain (0.9%).
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