About this metric
The job vacancy rate shows unfilled jobs as a share of all jobs. The chart shows it for each year from 2008 to 2024.
In 2024 vacancies were 1.8% of jobs. The highest share of the period was 2.1% in 2021, and the lowest was 0.6% in 2010.
The share rose from 1.5% in 2018 to 2.0% in 2019 and has stayed between 1.7% and 2.1% since.