The Most In-Demand Jobs Right Now
Curious about the hottest jobs in the market or looking to recruit top talent? This article provides a comprehensive look at the most in-demand jobs, updated quarterly to help talent professionals manage expectations, make informed hiring decisions, and understand the evolving talent landscape.
Jobs with the Fastest-Growing Demand: Sales and Customer Service Roles Lead the Way
Sales and customer service roles are seeing a significant surge in demand. Four of the top ten fastest-growing roles fall into these categories. Alongside sales agents and customer assistants, floor managers and customer service supervisors have also made the list, each experiencing about a 50% increase in job postings on LinkedIn. Interestingly, the role of solicitor, which refers to legal practitioners in many Commonwealth countries, ranks third in fastest-growing demand.
Top Jobs with the Fastest-Growing Demand (QoQ):
- Sales Agent: +163% increase
- Customer Assistant: +118% increase
- Solicitor: +85% increase
- PHP Developer: +76% increase
- Patient Coordinator: +76% increase
- Medical Doctor: +71% increase
- Payroll Clerk: +71% increase
- Director of Analytics: +53% increase
- Floor Manager: +51% increase
- Customer Service Supervisor: +50% increase
The healthcare sector, already facing staffing shortages before the pandemic, shows significant growth with patient coordinator and medical doctor roles seeing over 70% increases in demand. Fortunately, the talent pool for healthcare workers on LinkedIn has grown by 35% over the past five years.
Tech roles are also on the rise, with PHP developers and directors of analytics seeing about 75% and 50% increases, respectively. PHP developers focus on web development, while directors of analytics oversee data-driven decision-making.
Most In-Demand Jobs Overall: Stability in Sales and Engineering
While the previous list highlights the biggest increases in demand, the following list details the jobs with the highest overall demand, based on the number of paid job posts on LinkedIn. This list provides a snapshot of the top jobs, which remain remarkably stable.
Most In-Demand Jobs (Q2 2024):
- Salesperson: No change in rank
- Retail Salesperson: No change
- Software Engineer: No change
- Registered Nurse: No change
- Project Manager: No change
- Sales Manager: No change
- Customer Service Representative: No change
- Full Stack Engineer: No change
- Driver: +13
- Cashier: +8
Sales roles continue to dominate, along with engineering, nursing, and project management rounding out the top five. The only changes this quarter are the rise of driver and cashier jobs, both frontline roles that have appeared on this list in the past
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