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September 2025 data were released on 15 October 2025.
Introduction
The Internet Vacancy Index (IVI) is a monthly count of online job advertisements compiled by Jobs and Skills Australia. Data are available by occupational groups, skill level groups, state or territory and by regional areas.
Key points
In seasonally adjusted terms, job advertisements increased by 2.3% (or 4,700 job advertisements) in September 2025 to stand at 207,700. Vacancy numbers continue at elevated levels, with around 20% more advertisements in the labour market presently than compared with the monthly average for 2019.
The monthly Vacancy Report includes spotlights on key facets of the Australian labour market. These bring together the wider breadth of data produced by Jobs and Skills Australia and our external stakeholders to provide an overarching summary of a particular labour market segment.
This month’s spotlight is ‘Sound advice: tracking the growing demand for Audiologists and Speech Pathologists/Therapists’.
Job Advertisements and Unemployment Rate – January 2006 to September 2025
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DownloadFuture release dates
The Vacancy Report is published on the third Wednesday of the month.
| For data covering | Release date |
|---|---|
| October 2025 | 12 November 2025 |
| November 2025 | 10 December 2025 |
| December 2025 | 20 January 2026 |
Feedback
The Internet Vacancy Index is an ongoing project that seeks to continuously improve the accounting of job vacancies listed online, understanding of businesses’ use of online tools for advertising vacancies and users’ needs and interests regarding our data and reports. To facilitate ongoing improvement, feedback and enquiries are welcome1.
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Caveats
Jobs and Skills Australia publishes seasonally adjusted IVI data to better show monthly fluctuations in job advertisements, which can be affected by seasonal factors and economic shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic. There is some volatility in the IVI series month-on-month, particularly for results post-COVID-19, and as such results should be interpreted carefully.
Acknowledgements
Jobs and Skills Australia thanks Seek, CareerOne and Workforce Australia for their ongoing contribution to the IVI.
Footnotes
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