Jobs and Skills Australia · Internet Vacancy Index

Machine and Stationary Plant Operators

Online job advertisements, July 2026, as published by Jobs and Skills Australia under code 71. The name is the publisher’s own.

Dataset: Internet Vacancy Index
Reference period: July 2026
Publisher code: 71
Regions reporting: 50 of 50

Machine and Stationary Plant Operators (71) 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 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

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.

Machine and Stationary Plant Operators (71) 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 Machine and Stationary Plant Operators (71) by state and territory, July 2026, ordered by number of advertisements.
Rank	State or territory	Advertisements	Regions
1	Queensland	858	11
2	Western Australia	834	5
3	New South Wales	645	14
4	Victoria	461	9
5	South Australia	230	4
6	Northern Territory	40	2
7	Tasmania	38	4
8	Australian Capital Territory	12	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.