Jobs and Skills Australia · Internet Vacancy Index

Food Trades

Online job advertisements, July 2026, as published by Jobs and Skills Australia under code 35. The name is the publisher’s own.

Dataset: Internet Vacancy Index
Reference period: July 2026
Publisher code: 35
Regions reporting: 50 of 50

Food Trades (35) by region

July 2026. Counts of advertisements, not of vacancies. Bars are scaled to the largest region shown.

Ordered by number of advertisements. Region names link to the map.
Rank	Region	Type	Advertisements
1	Greater Sydney	Capital city	857
2	Greater Melbourne	Capital city	756
3	Greater Brisbane	Capital city	453
4	Greater Perth	Capital city	383
5	Greater Adelaide	Capital city	252
6	Gold Coast	Region	164
7	Sunshine Coast	Region	111
8	Australian Capital Territory	Capital city	70
9	Cairns	Region	69
10	Newcastle and Lake Macquarie	Region	60
11	Townsville	Region	50
12	Richmond - Tweed	Region	46
13	Geelong	Region	42
14	Western Australia - Outback (North)	Region	40
15	Hume	Region	39
16	Illawarra	Region	38
17	Capital Region	Region	37
18	Hunter Valley exc Newcastle	Region	37
19	Greater Hobart	Capital city	36
20	Latrobe - Gippsland	Region	36
21	Mackay - Isaac - Whitsunday	Region	36
22	Bunbury	Region	35
23	Wide Bay	Region	33
24	Central Queensland	Region	32
25	South Australia - South East	Region	31
26	Central West	Region	30
27	Greater Darwin	Capital city	28
28	Mid North Coast	Region	28
29	Murray	Region	26
30	Ballarat	Region	25
31	New England and North West	Region	25
32	Northern Territory - Outback	Region	25
33	Toowoomba	Region	25
34	Western Australia - Outback (South)	Region	25
35	Southern Highlands and Shoalhaven	Region	24
36	North West	Region	23
37	Warrnambool and South West	Region	21
38	Bendigo	Region	20
39	Darling Downs - Maranoa	Region	20
40	Queensland - Outback	Region	20
41	Barossa - Yorke - Mid North	Region	19
42	Riverina	Region	19
43	Western Australia - Wheat Belt	Region	18
44	Launceston and North East	Region	16
45	Shepparton	Region	16
46	South Australia - Outback	Region	16
47	Far West and Orana	Region	15
48	Coffs Harbour - Grafton	Region	13
49	West and North West	Region	12
50	South East	Region	4

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.

Food Trades (35) by state and territory

July 2026. Regions summed into the states they sit in, computed here rather than published as state figures.

Online job advertisements for Food Trades (35) by state and territory, July 2026, ordered by number of advertisements.
Rank	State or territory	Advertisements	Regions
1	New South Wales	1,255	14
2	Queensland	1,013	11
3	Victoria	978	9
4	Western Australia	501	5
5	South Australia	318	4
6	Australian Capital Territory	70	1
7	Tasmania	68	4
8	Northern Territory	53	2

Notes

The figure in the margin is the sum of the regions the publisher reports on, added here rather than published as a national total by Jobs and Skills Australia. Its regions cover Australia exactly once, so the sum is well defined, but it is our arithmetic and not their figure.
The Internet Vacancy Index counts advertisements appearing on a defined set of job boards. It is an indicator of advertising activity, not a measure of total Australian vacancies.
Two reference periods are held, so this page states a month and its change on the month before. That is a comparison, not a trend, and it is deliberately not drawn as one.