Job vacancy rate in Europe 2023

The job vacancy rate of the European Union was 2.8 percent in the first quarter of 2023, the same as in the previous quarter. Prior to 2021 the job vacancy rate was highest in the first quarter of 2019 at 2.3 percent, and lowest in 2013, when the job vacancy rate was 1.2 percent.

Job vacancy rate in the European Union from 1st quarter 2013 to 1st quarter 2023

Characteristic	EU	Euro area
Q1 2013	1.3%	1.4%
Q2 2013	1.2%	1.3%
Q3 2013	1.2%	1.3%
Q4 2013	1.2%	1.4%
Q1 2014	1.3%	1.5%
Q2 2014	1.3%	1.4%
Q3 2014	1.3%	1.4%
Q4 2014	1.3%	1.5%
Q1 2015	1.5%	1.5%
Q2 2015	1.4%	1.5%
Q3 2015	1.4%	1.4%
Q4 2015	1.5%	1.6%
Q1 2016	1.6%	1.6%
Q2 2016	1.6%	1.6%
Q3 2016	1.5%	1.6%
Q4 2016	1.6%	1.7%
Q1 2017	1.8%	1.9%
Q2 2017	1.8%	1.9%
Q3 2017	1.9%	1.9%
Q4 2017	1.9%	1.9%
Q1 2018	2.1%	2.1%
Q2 2018	2.1%	2.1%
Q3 2018	2.1%	2.1%
Q4 2018	2.2%	2.2%
Q1 2019	2.3%	2.3%
Q2 2019	2.2%	2.3%
Q3 2019	2.1%	2.2%
Q4 2019	2.1%	2.2%
Q1 2020	1.9%	2%
Q2 2020	1.6%	1.6%
Q3 2020	1.7%	1.7%
Q4 2020	1.8%	1.9%
Q1 2021	2%	2.1%
Q2 2021	2.2%	2.3%
Q3 2021	2.4%	2.6%
Q4 2021	2.6%	2.8%
Q1 2022	2.9%	3.1%
Q2 2022	3%	3.2%
Q3 2022	2.9%	3.1%
Q4 2022	2.8%	3.1%
Q1 2023	2.8%	3%

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Release date

June 2023

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Region

Europe, EU

Survey time period

Q1 2013 to Q1 2023

Age group

15-64 years

Supplementary notes

The job vacancy rate is the number of job vacancies divided by the number of occupied posts plus the number of job vacancies multiplied by 100. An occupied post means a paid post within the organisation to which an employee has been assigned.

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