Jobs and Skills Australia · Internet Vacancy Index

Where the advertisements are

Advertisements for Machine and Stationary Plant Operators (71) 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: Machine and Stationary Plant Operators (71)
Regions reporting: 50 of 50

Occupation

Advertisements for Machine and Stationary Plant Operators (71) 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 Perth	Capital city	644
2	Greater Brisbane	Capital city	420
3	Greater Sydney	Capital city	384
4	Greater Melbourne	Capital city	380
5	Greater Adelaide	Capital city	196
6	Western Australia - Outback (South)	Region	100
7	Mackay - Isaac - Whitsunday	Region	98
8	Gold Coast	Region	75
9	Townsville	Region	62
10	Western Australia - Outback (North)	Region	62
11	Central Queensland	Region	61
12	Central West	Region	41
13	Far West and Orana	Region	39
14	Greater Darwin	Capital city	34
15	Newcastle and Lake Macquarie	Region	34
16	Sunshine Coast	Region	31
17	Hunter Valley exc Newcastle	Region	30
18	Toowoomba	Region	25
19	Wide Bay	Region	24
20	Cairns	Region	22
21	Darling Downs - Maranoa	Region	22
22	Capital Region	Region	21
23	Geelong	Region	20
24	Bunbury	Region	19
25	Queensland - Outback	Region	18
26	West and North West	Region	18
27	Murray	Region	17
28	New England and North West	Region	17
29	South Australia - Outback	Region	15
30	Illawarra	Region	14
31	Riverina	Region	13
32	Australian Capital Territory	Capital city	12
33	Mid North Coast	Region	12
34	Richmond - Tweed	Region	12
35	Bendigo	Region	11
36	Greater Hobart	Capital city	11
37	Barossa - Yorke - Mid North	Region	10
38	Hume	Region	9
39	South Australia - South East	Region	9
40	Warrnambool and South West	Region	9
41	Western Australia - Wheat Belt	Region	9
42	Ballarat	Region	8
43	Latrobe - Gippsland	Region	8
44	Launceston and North East	Region	8
45	North West	Region	8
46	Shepparton	Region	8
47	Southern Highlands and Shoalhaven	Region	7
48	Northern Territory - Outback	Region	6
49	Coffs Harbour - Grafton	Region	4
50	South East	Region	1

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 Machine and Stationary Plant Operators (71) by region, Australia

Advertisements per region

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