Official data

Is it the right time to change jobs in Switzerland ?

Probably not

Job vacancies rise to 98'215 +5,0%
Unemployment rises to 3,0% +0,3 pts
Nearly one employer in 3 struggles to recruit -1,8 pts

only one signal has improved over the past year

Over the past year
  • 4'664 more job vacancies
  • 12'331 more unemployed
  • less recruitment difficulty for employers
Job vacancies in Switzerland
98'215 +5,0% year-on-year
+4'664 job vacancies in one year · 1.74% of all jobs
Registered unemployed
140'275 +9,6% year-on-year
+12'331 unemployed in one year
Recruitment difficulty
34.3% -1,8 pts year-on-year
36.1% → 34.3% in one year
Market opportunities

Job vacancies

0 37'500 75'000 112'500 150'000 2019Q1 — 80'229 job vacancies 2019Q2 — 87'616 job vacancies 2019Q3 — 82'773 job vacancies 2019Q4 — 82'915 job vacancies 2020Q1 — 70'681 job vacancies 2020Q2 — 61'631 job vacancies 2020Q3 — 68'455 job vacancies 2020Q4 — 66'713 job vacancies 2021Q1 — 72'763 job vacancies 2021Q2 — 88'250 job vacancies 2021Q3 — 98'266 job vacancies 2021Q4 — 103'645 job vacancies 2022Q1 — 120'610 job vacancies 2022Q2 — 127'017 job vacancies 2022Q3 — 123'009 job vacancies 2022Q4 — 122'796 job vacancies 2023Q1 — 125'370 job vacancies 2023Q2 — 124'455 job vacancies 2023Q3 — 114'119 job vacancies 2023Q4 — 109'465 job vacancies 2024Q1 — 112'500 job vacancies 2024Q2 — 103'605 job vacancies 2024Q3 — 98'776 job vacancies 2024Q4 — 89'927 job vacancies 2025Q1 — 93'551 job vacancies 2025Q2 — 93'849 job vacancies 2025Q3 — 88'431 job vacancies 2025Q4 — 86'034 job vacancies 2026Q1 — 98'215 job vacancies 93'551 98'215 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026
Balance of power

How many candidates per position ?

Job vacancies
93'551 last year
98'215+5,0%
Registered unemployed
127'944 last year
140'275+9,6%
Job seekers
205'855 last year
225'475+9,5%
Dotted benchmark : the value from one year ago
  • 1.43 candidate per position
  • 2.3 counting all job seekers
Scarcity of profiles

Recruitment difficulty for employers

0% 12% 25% 37% 50% 2019Q1 — 32,6% 2019Q2 — 34,0% 2019Q3 — 32,4% 2019Q4 — 32,9% 2020Q1 — 28,1% 2020Q2 — 28,1% 2020Q3 — 28,8% 2020Q4 — 27,8% 2021Q1 — 28,6% 2021Q2 — 31,2% 2021Q3 — 34,4% 2021Q4 — 35,9% 2022Q1 — 36,9% 2022Q2 — 41,3% 2022Q3 — 41,4% 2022Q4 — 40,7% 2023Q1 — 41,1% 2023Q2 — 41,1% 2023Q3 — 40,9% 2023Q4 — 40,3% 2024Q1 — 39,5% 2024Q2 — 39,3% 2024Q3 — 38,1% 2024Q4 — 37,6% 2025Q1 — 36,1% 2025Q2 — 37,1% 2025Q3 — 36,3% 2025Q4 — 36,2% 2026Q1 — 34,3% 36,1% 34,3% 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026
  • Recruitment difficulty also depends on the required level of education : from 23.0% (Haute école) to 4.9% (École obligatoire).

It remains to be seen what this means for you : view by sector and profile →