09.05.2023

IN WHICH SECTORS ARE THEY LOOKING FOR WORKERS?

Job offers decreased by 5%, and at the end of April they were just over 49,000, according to an analysis of the JobTiger platform. On an annual basis, there is also a decrease of 7% or 3,500 listings less compared to April 2022. However, the number of listings remains high and there is still no cause for concern.

Contrary to the previous March, April saw a slight drop in offers in almost all sectors. The exception is the "Hospitality and restaurant industry" sector, which, characteristic of the season, continues to see growth. The number of listings in this sector increased by 4% or 440 more offers.

The number of advertisements in the "Healthcare and Pharmacy" sector remains almost unchanged. Its offers have increased by 25 (1% growth). In all other sectors, the number of offers decreased in April.

The biggest declines were in the "Manufacturing" (560 offers less, 7% drop) and "IT" (460 offers less, 9% drop) sectors. They are followed by the sectors "Administrative and service activities" (390 offers less, 7% drop), "Accounting, auditing, finance" (330 offers less, 14% drop), "Construction" (310 offers more little, down 11%), "Trade & Sales" (250 fewer offers, down 2%), "Logistics & Transportation" (240 fewer offers, down 5%) and "Marketing & Advertising" (110 offers down -small, 7% decline). The noticeable decline in offers in the "IT" sector continues, and compared to April 2022, they are 3,370 fewer, or a drop of 45%.

Share distribution

As a share of offers in April, the sectors "Trade and sales" with 23% and "Hospitality and restaurants" with 20% are strong leaders. Advertisements in these two sectors formed almost half of the job offers in the country in April.

The sectors "Manufacturing" (14%) "Administrative and service activities" (9.4%), "Logistics and transport" (8.8%), "IT" (8%) "Construction" (5%), " Healthcare and Pharmacy' (4.1%), 'Accounting, Auditing, Finance' (4%), 'Marketing and Advertising' (3%) and 'Art' (1%).

Work from home

Offers for work from home and/or remote work decreased by 11% in April. In number, they are just over 3900. The distribution of these offers by sector is: 60% in the "IT" sector, followed by "Administrative and service activities" (15%), the outsourcing industry sectors (13%) and "Trade and sales" (7%). As a share in April, work from home and/or telecommuting ads are 9% of all ads. The analysis shows that since the beginning of the year, offers of this type have fallen by 20%. Of course, here you can see the connection between these listings and listings in the IT sector, which has seen a year-to-date decline of 23%. On a year-over-year basis, job-from-home and/or telecommuting jobs are down 34% or 2,000 less than in April 2022.

Offer by cities

The total number of advertisements in the leading regional cities decreased by 7%. The dynamics in each of them is as follows: Sofia (-8%), Plovdiv (-7%), Varna (-2%), Burgas (-1%), Ruse (-4%) and Stara Zagora (1 %).

As a share, the ads for the city of Sofia are 40%, and in the other cities are: Plovdiv (10%), Varna (10%), Burgas (5%), Ruse (3%) and Stara Zagora (3%).