Jobs and Skills Australia · Internet Vacancy Index

Where the advertisements are

Advertisements for Legal, Social and Welfare Professionals (27) across Australia, July 2026. Capital cities are shown as whole cities and the rest of the country by region, which is how the index is published.

Dataset: Internet Vacancy Index
Reference period: July 2026
Occupation: Legal, Social and Welfare Professionals (27)
Regions reporting: 50 of 50

Occupation

Advertisements for Legal, Social and Welfare Professionals (27) by region, July 2026. Ordered by number of advertisements. Select a region for its figures; bars are scaled to the largest figure shown.
Rank	Region	Type	Advertisements
1	Greater Sydney	Capital city	1,582
2	Greater Melbourne	Capital city	1,549
3	Greater Brisbane	Capital city	951
4	Greater Perth	Capital city	553
5	Greater Adelaide	Capital city	393
6	Mid North Coast	Region	259
7	New England and North West	Region	236
8	Australian Capital Territory	Capital city	189
9	Gold Coast	Region	146
10	Capital Region	Region	135
11	Newcastle and Lake Macquarie	Region	134
12	Richmond - Tweed	Region	115
13	Coffs Harbour - Grafton	Region	106
14	Central West	Region	105
15	Greater Hobart	Capital city	105
16	Illawarra	Region	105
17	Sunshine Coast	Region	100
18	Greater Darwin	Capital city	98
19	Latrobe - Gippsland	Region	94
20	Wide Bay	Region	91
21	Central Queensland	Region	88
22	Townsville	Region	87
23	Cairns	Region	85
24	Far West and Orana	Region	84
25	Hunter Valley exc Newcastle	Region	84
26	Southern Highlands and Shoalhaven	Region	78
27	Geelong	Region	72
28	Riverina	Region	72
29	Shepparton	Region	68
30	Bendigo	Region	64
31	Northern Territory - Outback	Region	62
32	Murray	Region	61
33	Ballarat	Region	57
34	North West	Region	56
35	Mackay - Isaac - Whitsunday	Region	55
36	Hume	Region	53
37	Western Australia - Outback (South)	Region	52
38	Launceston and North East	Region	50
39	South Australia - South East	Region	50
40	Western Australia - Outback (North)	Region	48
41	Bunbury	Region	44
42	West and North West	Region	42
43	South Australia - Outback	Region	41
44	Queensland - Outback	Region	39
45	Warrnambool and South West	Region	38
46	Western Australia - Wheat Belt	Region	37
47	Toowoomba	Region	33
48	Darling Downs - Maranoa	Region	28
49	Barossa - Yorke - Mid North	Region	19
50	South East	Region	3

Notes

This is not a count of jobs. The Internet Vacancy Index counts advertisements appearing on a defined set of job boards. Vacancies never advertised online, or advertised only through an employer’s own site, are not in it. It is an indicator of advertising activity, not a measure of total Australian vacancies.
Shading is by rank, in five equal groups of regions, not by a fixed scale. Greater Sydney carries more advertisements than every regional area of New South Wales combined, so a fixed scale would leave almost the whole map in the palest band. The key prints the value each band opens at.
Capital cities are drawn as whole cities and the rest of each state region by region, because that is how the index is published. The two levels together cover the country exactly once.

Where the advertisements are

Advertisements for Legal, Social and Welfare Professionals (27) by region, Australia

Advertisements per region

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