The IT sector ranked second in terms of job offers in Bulgaria in August

The most serious demand for staff is in the IT sector, and in August it undoubtedly took first place in terms of supply growth by 28% compared to July. This is the only sector in which there has been a steady increase in job ads since the beginning of 2021, and compared to August 2020 the number of proposals in it has increased by 160%.

In second place is the sector "Marketing and Advertising" with a growth of 9%, followed by "Health and Pharmacy" (8%), "Administrative and service activities" (7%), "Manufacturing" (5%) and Construction (1%).

In other sectors in August we saw a decline in ads, as it is the largest in the sector "Hotels and restaurants" -23%. They are followed by the sectors "Logistics and transport" (-6%), "Accounting, audit, finance" (-5%), "Administrative and service activities" (-4%) and "Trade and sales" (-1%).

Due to the constant growth in the IT sector, it already ranks second in share of the total number of proposals in the country with 16%, led by the standard leader - the Trade and Sales sector (21%).

The Manufacturing sector ranks third with a 15% share, while the recently ranked Hotel and Restaurant Sector ranks fourth with a 13% share.

The order for the other sectors remains the same as in July:

The share distribution by sectors remained unchanged compared to July and in August was as follows: "Logistics and transport" (9%), "Administrative and service activities" (8.8%), "Construction" (5%), "Accounting, auditing" , Finance ”(4%),“ Health and Pharmacy ”(3.3%),“ Marketing and Advertising ”(2.9%) and“ Art ”(1%).

Work from home

Slight growth is also observed in offers of work from home and / or telecommuting.

In August, they accounted for 10.9% of the total (compared to 9.6% in July).

The number of this type of offers is the largest in the "IT" sector - 67% of the ads offering remote work or from home are in this industry.

In the area of "Administrative and service activities" they are 13.3%, and in that of "Outsourcing" (customer service centers and services) - 13.1%. Only 5% of the proposals are for trade professionals.

Job offers by cities

The share of job advertisements in Sofia continues to grow, amounting to 45% of the total in August. The share distribution of the ads for the other leading regional cities is as follows: Plovdiv (10%), Varna (9%), Burgas (3.4%), Ruse (3.2%) and Stara Zagora (2.6%) . Together, they account for 73% of all proposals in the country.

Source: JobTiger.bg