The number of vacant jobs registered by the Ministry of Labour is increasing and exceeded 60,000 in the third quarter of last year, according to data obtained by Jornal de Notícias. Sales, IT and call center technicians are among the most unfilled vacancies.

At the end of September 2022, there were 61,626 job offers that did not generate interest among the unemployed, which, according to the JN, is 43.9% more than in the same period of 2021 and 19.9% more than the number of vacant jobs registered in the second quarter of 2022.

More than a third of vacant jobs are located in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area (27,377). In the North, there were 18,117 vacancies to be filled and in the Centre 9,844.

With regard to the type of jobs, most of the vacancies were for salespeople, specialists in information and communication technologies, direct customer support personnel and workers in the extractive industry, construction and transport.