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Advertisements for Business, Finance and Human Resource Professionals (2A) 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
Business, Finance and Human Resource Professionals (2A)
Regions reporting
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Advertisements for Business, Finance and Human Resource Professionals (2A) by region, Australia

July 2026. Counts of advertisements, not of vacancies. Shaded by rank, in five equal groups of regions.

Australian Capital Territory: 163 advertisementsBallarat: 28 advertisementsBarossa - Yorke - Mid North: 9 advertisementsBendigo: 20 advertisementsBunbury: 27 advertisementsCairns: 58 advertisementsCapital Region: 21 advertisementsCentral Queensland: 34 advertisementsCentral West: 29 advertisementsCoffs Harbour - Grafton: 14 advertisementsDarling Downs - Maranoa: 22 advertisementsFar West and Orana: 18 advertisementsGeelong: 40 advertisementsGold Coast: 155 advertisementsGreater Adelaide: 430 advertisementsGreater Brisbane: 1,263 advertisementsGreater Darwin: 54 advertisementsGreater Hobart: 55 advertisementsGreater Melbourne: 1,698 advertisementsGreater Perth: 957 advertisementsGreater Sydney: 2,131 advertisementsHume: 13 advertisementsHunter Valley exc Newcastle: 54 advertisementsIllawarra: 25 advertisementsLatrobe - Gippsland: 28 advertisementsLaunceston and North East: 17 advertisementsMackay - Isaac - Whitsunday: 64 advertisementsMid North Coast: 25 advertisementsMurray: 30 advertisementsNew England and North West: 24 advertisementsNewcastle and Lake Macquarie: 74 advertisementsNorth West: 23 advertisementsNorthern Territory - Outback: 16 advertisementsQueensland - Outback: 15 advertisementsRichmond - Tweed: 29 advertisementsRiverina: 28 advertisementsShepparton: 18 advertisementsSouth Australia - Outback: 8 advertisementsSouth Australia - South East: 14 advertisementsSouth East: 1 advertisementsSouthern Highlands and Shoalhaven: 15 advertisementsSunshine Coast: 81 advertisementsToowoomba: 24 advertisementsTownsville: 50 advertisementsWarrnambool and South West: 15 advertisementsWest and North West: 16 advertisementsWestern Australia - Outback (North): 21 advertisementsWestern Australia - Outback (South): 20 advertisementsWestern Australia - Wheat Belt: 16 advertisementsWide Bay: 38 advertisements

Advertisements per region

1162329642,131

Source Based on Jobs and Skills Australia data. Internet Vacancy Index, © Commonwealth of Australia, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Figures have been aggregated and reformatted for display.

Advertisements for Business, Finance and Human Resource Professionals (2A) by region, July 2026. Ordered by number of advertisements. Select a region for its figures; bars are scaled to the largest figure shown.
RankRegionAdvertisements
1Greater Sydney2,131
2Greater Melbourne1,698
3Greater Brisbane1,263
4Greater Perth957
5Greater Adelaide430
6Australian Capital Territory163
7Gold Coast155
8Sunshine Coast81
9Newcastle and Lake Macquarie74
10Mackay - Isaac - Whitsunday64
11Cairns58
12Greater Hobart55
13Greater Darwin54
14Hunter Valley exc Newcastle54
15Townsville50
16Geelong40
17Wide Bay38
18Central Queensland34
19Murray30
20Central West29
21Richmond - Tweed29
22Ballarat28
23Latrobe - Gippsland28
24Riverina28
25Bunbury27
26Illawarra25
27Mid North Coast25
28New England and North West24
29Toowoomba24
30North West23
31Darling Downs - Maranoa22
32Capital Region21
33Western Australia - Outback (North)21
34Bendigo20
35Western Australia - Outback (South)20
36Far West and Orana18
37Shepparton18
38Launceston and North East17
39Northern Territory - Outback16
40West and North West16
41Western Australia - Wheat Belt16
42Queensland - Outback15
43Southern Highlands and Shoalhaven15
44Warrnambool and South West15
45Coffs Harbour - Grafton14
46South Australia - South East14
47Hume13
48Barossa - Yorke - Mid North9
49South Australia - Outback8
50South East1

Notes

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.