Jobs and Skills Australia · Internet Vacancy Index

LABOURERS

Online job advertisements, July 2026, as published by Jobs and Skills Australia under code 8. The name is the publisher’s own.

Dataset: Internet Vacancy Index
Reference period: July 2026
Publisher code: 8
Regions reporting: 50 of 50

LABOURERS (8) 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	2,191
2	Greater Brisbane	Capital city	1,882
3	Greater Melbourne	Capital city	1,828
4	Greater Perth	Capital city	1,372
5	Greater Adelaide	Capital city	885
6	Gold Coast	Region	442
7	Sunshine Coast	Region	266
8	Townsville	Region	201
9	Mackay - Isaac - Whitsunday	Region	196
10	Newcastle and Lake Macquarie	Region	190
11	Australian Capital Territory	Capital city	181
12	Central Queensland	Region	180
13	Cairns	Region	166
14	Wide Bay	Region	151
15	Western Australia - Outback (North)	Region	149
16	Hunter Valley exc Newcastle	Region	137
17	Geelong	Region	124
18	Greater Darwin	Capital city	119
19	Richmond - Tweed	Region	115
20	Western Australia - Outback (South)	Region	108
21	Bunbury	Region	103
22	Riverina	Region	101
23	South Australia - South East	Region	99
24	Central West	Region	97
25	New England and North West	Region	97
26	Toowoomba	Region	96
27	Mid North Coast	Region	92
28	Latrobe - Gippsland	Region	91
29	Illawarra	Region	89
30	Darling Downs - Maranoa	Region	87
31	Capital Region	Region	82
32	Launceston and North East	Region	82
33	Northern Territory - Outback	Region	78
34	Greater Hobart	Capital city	73
35	Hume	Region	73
36	Shepparton	Region	71
37	Bendigo	Region	69
38	North West	Region	69
39	Warrnambool and South West	Region	69
40	Western Australia - Wheat Belt	Region	68
41	Murray	Region	67
42	Ballarat	Region	59
43	Southern Highlands and Shoalhaven	Region	59
44	Far West and Orana	Region	56
45	Queensland - Outback	Region	53
46	Barossa - Yorke - Mid North	Region	52
47	Coffs Harbour - Grafton	Region	50
48	West and North West	Region	46
49	South Australia - Outback	Region	45
50	South East	Region	9

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.

LABOURERS (8) 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 LABOURERS (8) by state and territory, July 2026, ordered by number of advertisements.
Rank	State or territory	Advertisements	Regions
1	Queensland	3,720	11
2	New South Wales	3,423	14
3	Victoria	2,453	9
4	Western Australia	1,800	5
5	South Australia	1,081	4
6	Tasmania	210	4
7	Northern Territory	197	2
8	Australian Capital Territory	181	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.