Breaking Update
Upward Trend in Job Vacancies in Israel Continues in 4th Quarter 2025
Israel's job vacancies rose to 152,134 in December 2025, reaching a 4.59% rate, the highest since November 2022, as labor demand trends shift.
Jerusalem, 19 January, 2026 (TPS-IL) — Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) released the data on the number of job vacancies during the fourth quarter, October-December, of 2025.
Seasonally adjusted data for December 2025:
The CBS reported a continued upward trend in the number of job vacancies – 152,134 in December compared to 150,953 in November.
A slight increase in the job vacancy rate – 4.59 in December compared to 4.58 in November, the highest rate since November 2022.
Labor demand in 2025 compared to 2024 and compared to pre-war demand:
The vacancy rate rose from 4.0 before the Iron Swords War (average 2023 excluding the last quarter) to 4.4 in 2025, similar to the rate estimated in 2024.
A comparison of the rate of job vacancies by industry in 2025 with the rate before the war found that there was an increase in all industries except health and nursing services and transportation and haulage services; the sharpest increase was in the construction and trade industries.
Comparing the vacancy rate in 2024 to 2025, there is a decrease in the demand for workers in the construction industries (from 10.2 to 8.8, respectively), while there was an increase in the trade industries (from 4.4 to 4.9, respectively).
In the high-tech services industry, there was an increase in the vacancy rate in 2025 compared to 2024 (4.8 compared to 4.2 in 2024)
In the overall survey population, the vacancy rate in 2025 remains similar to the estimate in 2024.
The Job Vacancy Survey is the main source of information on the number of job vacancies in Israel, and has been conducted regularly by the Central Bureau of Statistics since 2009. The survey population includes businesses with five or more employee positions.
