Jobs and Skills Australia · Internet Vacancy Index

Food Preparation Assistants

Online job advertisements, July 2026, as published by Jobs and Skills Australia under code 85. The name is the publisher’s own.

Dataset: Internet Vacancy Index
Reference period: July 2026
Publisher code: 85
Regions reporting: 50 of 50

Food Preparation Assistants (85) 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 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

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 Preparation Assistants (85) 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 Preparation Assistants (85) by state and territory, July 2026, ordered by number of advertisements.
Rank	State or territory	Advertisements	Regions
1	New South Wales	214	14
2	Queensland	210	11
3	Victoria	206	9
4	South Australia	79	4
5	Western Australia	78	5
6	Tasmania	19	4
7	Northern Territory	12	2
8	Australian Capital Territory	11	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.