07.07.2022

IN WHICH PROFESSIONS ARE THE MOST PEOPLE EMPLOYED

The occupation that reported the largest increase in the number of employees in the first quarter of this year compared to the same in 2021 was food preparation assistants. The increase is 25.1% or from almost 1.1 to almost 1.4 million people in the EU working in this profession. This is shown by Eurostat data on the top 10 growing professions.

The second largest increase, at 15.6%, was in the personal service workers group, which refers to attendants, conductors, guides, cooks, waiters and bartenders, hairdressers, beauticians, and construction and housekeeping supervisors. In the first quarter of 2022, this occupational group had 7.6 million workers.

Information and communication technology professionals came in third with a 9.6% year-over-year increase. Between those two quarters, that group (which refers to software and application developers and database and network analysts and professionals) grew from 4.1 to 4.5 million people.

There are two occupational groups with a 9% increase in the number of workers: legal, social, cultural and related associated professionals (+9.4%), and managers in tourism, retail and other services (+9.1%) ). In the first quarter of 2022, these groups numbered 3.5 and 2.4 million workers, respectively.

Next in the list of leading occupations with the sharpest percentage increase in the number of employed persons are business and administration professionals (+7.4%), craftsmen and printers (+6.7%), information and communication technicians (+5, 9%), science and engineering professionals (+5.7%) and production and specialized services managers (+5.3%).

In contrast, workers in agriculture, forestry and fisheries recorded the most significant decrease in the EU – by -12.6%.