Jobs and Skills Australia · Internet Vacancy Index

MACHINERY OPERATORS AND DRIVERS

Online job advertisements, July 2026, as published by Jobs and Skills Australia under code 7. The name is the publisher’s own.

Dataset: Internet Vacancy Index
Reference period: July 2026
Publisher code: 7
Regions reporting: 50 of 50

MACHINERY OPERATORS AND DRIVERS (7) 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	2,073
2	Greater Brisbane	Capital city	2,006
3	Greater Perth	Capital city	1,913
4	Greater Melbourne	Capital city	1,605
5	Greater Adelaide	Capital city	860
6	Gold Coast	Region	350
7	Mackay - Isaac - Whitsunday	Region	329
8	Central Queensland	Region	255
9	Western Australia - Outback (South)	Region	252
10	Townsville	Region	250
11	Western Australia - Outback (North)	Region	181
12	Cairns	Region	167
13	Greater Darwin	Capital city	164
14	Sunshine Coast	Region	163
15	Newcastle and Lake Macquarie	Region	152
16	Wide Bay	Region	131
17	Hunter Valley exc Newcastle	Region	126
18	Central West	Region	125
19	Australian Capital Territory	Capital city	122
20	Toowoomba	Region	117
21	Far West and Orana	Region	95
22	Darling Downs - Maranoa	Region	94
23	Bunbury	Region	84
24	Geelong	Region	82
25	Capital Region	Region	78
26	New England and North West	Region	72
27	Richmond - Tweed	Region	72
28	Riverina	Region	72
29	Queensland - Outback	Region	71
30	Murray	Region	67
31	Greater Hobart	Capital city	59
32	Illawarra	Region	58
33	Western Australia - Wheat Belt	Region	58
34	Launceston and North East	Region	55
35	Mid North Coast	Region	55
36	South Australia - South East	Region	55
37	North West	Region	52
38	Shepparton	Region	49
39	West and North West	Region	49
40	Latrobe - Gippsland	Region	46
41	Bendigo	Region	43
42	Coffs Harbour - Grafton	Region	43
43	South Australia - Outback	Region	42
44	Warrnambool and South West	Region	40
45	Ballarat	Region	39
46	Hume	Region	38
47	Southern Highlands and Shoalhaven	Region	38
48	Northern Territory - Outback	Region	35
49	Barossa - Yorke - Mid North	Region	31
50	South East	Region	5

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.

MACHINERY OPERATORS AND DRIVERS (7) 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 MACHINERY OPERATORS AND DRIVERS (7) by state and territory, July 2026, ordered by number of advertisements.
Rank	State or territory	Advertisements	Regions
1	Queensland	3,933	11
2	New South Wales	3,126	14
3	Western Australia	2,488	5
4	Victoria	1,994	9
5	South Australia	988	4
6	Northern Territory	199	2
7	Tasmania	168	4
8	Australian Capital Territory	122	1

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.