In Poland, at the end of the second quarter of 2025, there was 5.2 percent. less free jobs than at the end of the previous quarter – It results from the latest data of the Central Statistical Office published on Tuesday morning. Free jobs indicator also decreased.
At the end of the second quarter of 2025, 95.7 thousand were recorded. free jobs. It was 5.3 thousand less than in the first quarter of 2025 IO 15.1 thousand less than in the same period of 2024.
The index of free jobs at the end of the second quarter of 2025 amounted to 0.78 percent, i.e. decreased by 0.04 percentage points For three months and 0.11 percentage points for a year (this is the participation of free jobs in total and free jobs).
This measure decreases from the peaks recorded at the turn of 2021 and 2022 (the seasonally leveled indicator reached 1.22 percent), which indicates the cooling of the situation on the Polish labor market. The highest index of free jobs at the end of June 2025 occurred in the Lower Silesian region (0.96 percent, less by 0.1 percentage per year), while the lowest – in Świętokrzyskie (0.33 percent, a decrease by 0.03 percentage points).
Lower than the average, the free job indicator was also recorded in the Warmian-Masurian and Lublin provinces (corresponding 0.43 % and 0.44 %) and Podkarpackie (0.53 %), and higher in the Warsaw capital's regions (0.95 percent), West Pomeranian (0.93 %) and Pomeranian (0.85 percent).
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In terms of the type of business, the highest rate of free jobs appeared in the “Construction” section (1.65 percent), where there were 12.2 thousand. vacancies. The high indicator was also in the “Information and communication” sections (1.31 percent, 4.8 thousand free full -time jobs) and “Transport and warehouse economy” (1.21 percent, 10.3 thousand). The lowest indicator was in the “Education” section (0.34 percent, 5,000 vacancies) and in “Trade and repair of motor vehicles” (0.54 % 10.9 thousand).
However, the highest increase in the indicator compared to the second quarter of 2024 was recorded in the “Accommodation and gastronomy” section (by 0.16 percentage points to 0.96 percent). On the other hand, the largest decrease in the indicator was recorded in the “Other service activities” section (by 0.45 percentage points to 1.05 percent).
In absolute numbers, the most free jobs at the end of the second quarter of 2025 were recorded in the “Industrial Processing” section (22,000), and the least in the “Accommodation and gastronomy” section (3.1 thousand).
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“The demand for work is not as strong as in the peak 2021 and is a delayed adaptation to a slower pace of economic growth in 2023–2024” – wrote the economists of Bank Millennium.
Another proof of cooling the Polish labor market is unemployment data. The Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Policy said on Tuesday morning that the estimated rate of unemployment registered in August was 5.5 percent. This is slightly more than in July, when it was 5.4 percent. However, the indicator has been growing for several months: in June it was 5.2 percent, and in May 5 percent. A year ago in August it was lower and reached 5 percent.
To a large extent, the increase in unemployment rate is the result of the reform of employment officeswhich entered into force in June and assumes, among others The possibility of registration of farmers or registration according to the place of residence, and not as before according to the place of registration. In practice, this means that the status of an unemployed person can be maintained without the need for personal appearance at the Labor Office, which limited the number of deregistration and thus affected statistical data. We wrote more about it here.
