France job vacancies: NACE B-S excluding public admin
France job vacancies: NACE B-S excluding public admin stood at 457,503 Job vacancies in Q2 2026, according to DARES – Direction de l'animation de la recherche, des études et des statistiques (Ministère du Travail). It is one of the indicators in the Job vacancies table (Value · Quarterly), with a complete series running from Q2 2011 to Q2 2026. The complete series with an interactive chart, free to download.
This indicator in the Job vacancies table
| Indicator | Q2-2026 | Q1-2026 | Q4-2025 | Q3-2025 | Q2-2025 | Q1-2025 | Q4-2024 | Q3-2024 | Q2-2024 | Q1-2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All sectors (NACE B to S excluding public administration)12 | 457,503 | 463,109 | 482,858 | 469,012 | 488,337 | 488,064 | 493,226 | 520,482 | 539,380 | 545,141 | |
| Industry | 59,307 | 60,613 | 63,678 | 64,586 | 61,539 | 60,350 | 57,112 | 60,508 | 65,673 | 73,887 | |
| Market services | 280,423 | 289,581 | 302,076 | 294,765 | 304,590 | 313,722 | 321,221 | 330,761 | 342,868 | 341,045 |
Understanding france job vacancies: NACE B-S excluding public admin
Counting the absolute aggregate of unfilled positions across the broad private and semi-public business economy, this series tallies positions across NACE sections B through S while omitting public administration. A job vacancy is defined as a paid post that is newly created, vacant, or about to become vacant, for which the employer is actively taking steps to find a suitable candidate outside the enterprise. Excluded are positions meant solely for internal redeployment or apprenticeship schemes that do not meet standard hiring criteria. This aggregate serves as the macro-level benchmark for overall labor demand before any sectoral or regional slicing.
Raw tallies in this series display distinct seasonal patterns linked to budgetary periods and corporate hiring schedules, making period-on-period changes misleading without proper adjustment. Preliminary estimates draw on sample surveys that undergo routine revision once exhaustive administrative registers are matched and validated. When evaluating this total against other labor market indicators, analysts must verify whether self-employed individuals or specific non-market branches are included in the comparative datasets to avoid conceptual mismatches.
Frequently asked questions
- Which NACE sections are captured within this aggregate vacancy count?
- Sections B through S are included, covering mining, manufacturing, construction, trade, services, and various private activities, while excluding public administration.
- What criteria make a post countable as a vacancy in this series?
- The post must be paid, either newly created or unoccupied, and the employer must be actively seeking an external candidate with immediate availability.
- How do early figures for this series typically behave upon subsequent release cycles?
- Initial survey-based estimates are regularly revised as late survey responses arrive and administrative data sources are fully reconciled.