Jobs and Skills Australia · Internet Vacancy Index

Where the advertisements are

Advertisements for Food Preparation Assistants (85) 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: Food Preparation Assistants (85)
Regions reporting: 50 of 50

Occupation

Advertisements for Food Preparation Assistants (85) 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 Melbourne	Capital city	153
2	Greater Sydney	Capital city	145
3	Greater Brisbane	Capital city	97
4	Greater Adelaide	Capital city	62
5	Greater Perth	Capital city	61
6	Gold Coast	Region	29
7	Sunshine Coast	Region	27
8	Geelong	Region	15
9	Wide Bay	Region	14
10	Australian Capital Territory	Capital city	11
11	Townsville	Region	10
12	Cairns	Region	9
13	Greater Hobart	Capital city	9
14	Newcastle and Lake Macquarie	Region	9
15	Launceston and North East	Region	8
16	Mackay - Isaac - Whitsunday	Region	8
17	Mid North Coast	Region	8
18	Barossa - Yorke - Mid North	Region	7
19	Central Queensland	Region	7
20	Greater Darwin	Capital city	7
21	Richmond - Tweed	Region	7
22	South Australia - South East	Region	7
23	Bendigo	Region	6
24	Hume	Region	6
25	Hunter Valley exc Newcastle	Region	6
26	Illawarra	Region	6
27	Latrobe - Gippsland	Region	6
28	Murray	Region	6
29	North West	Region	6
30	Warrnambool and South West	Region	6
31	Capital Region	Region	5
32	Central West	Region	5
33	Northern Territory - Outback	Region	5
34	Riverina	Region	5
35	Shepparton	Region	5
36	Western Australia - Outback (South)	Region	5
37	Bunbury	Region	4
38	New England and North West	Region	4
39	Western Australia - Outback (North)	Region	4
40	Western Australia - Wheat Belt	Region	4
41	Ballarat	Region	3
42	Coffs Harbour - Grafton	Region	3
43	Darling Downs - Maranoa	Region	3
44	Queensland - Outback	Region	3
45	South Australia - Outback	Region	3
46	Southern Highlands and Shoalhaven	Region	3
47	Toowoomba	Region	3
48	Far West and Orana	Region	2
49	West and North West	Region	2
50	South East	Region	0

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 Food Preparation Assistants (85) by region, Australia

Advertisements per region

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