The labor market is experiencing a sweet moment. This is reflected in the figures from the Infojobs job portal, “a thermometer of activity where professionals come to find a job or improve the one they have,” according to its general director, Román Campa. During last year the platform registered 2.5 million offers, just 1% more than the previous yearbut the number of applicants who applied for at least one of them increased by 5% to 4.2 million. A record number.
“We are at historic highs in market size, with 25 million active population, and we have seen that reflection in the increase of our candidateswhich has generated more growth in the volume of registrations to the platform, exceeding 136 million, another record number,” says Mónica Pérez Callejo, Director of Studies at Infojobs. And this has contributed to the struggle for each available vacancy becoming more acute: 56 people competed on average for each job offer in 2025, four more than in the previous year.
These are the main conclusions of the 16th edition of the report State of the labor market in Spain in 2025prepared by Infojobs and Esade, and presented in Barcelona. Although job offers are stabilizing and the evolution in the first three months of 2026 reinforces this trend, “the labor market has had 11 consecutive years of growth, with the exception of 2020 due to the pandemic. occupancy reached a record, above 22 million employedaccording to the latest Active Population Survey (EPA), and the year closed with an unemployment rate of 9.9%, an unprecedented level since 2008,” according to Anna Ginès, director of the Esade Institute of Labor Studies.
Despite this favorable context, the loss of workers’ purchasing power has continued. The average remuneration of the platform’s vacancies stood at 27,336 euros gross per year, just 276 euros or 1% more than in 2024 (compared to almost 3% of the CPI). “Which is one of the main problems of the uneven progress of the labor market and that leads to tensions,” according to Mónica Pérez. In fact, working poverty affects 11% of workers, compared to the European average of 8.2%. And 10% of employees have several jobs at the same time, multiple jobs that exceed 30% in the case of people between 25 and 34 years old. “Improve productivitywhich has gone from 58,400 euros per employee in 2015 to 58,536 euros in 2025, stands as the biggest challenge in the Spanish labor market: it is the variable why salaries are not rising,” explained Pérez Callejo.
Although computer science and telecommunications, the labor branch headed by the ranking by salaries of Infojobs in recent years, has moved to second position, with an average of 35,031 gross euros per year, is a consequence of a “significant volume” of offers in the healthcare sector that have as destinations other countries such as Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, Norway or France, where salaries are higher and have caused an increase of 30% in the last year and the sector has come to lead the classification of the employment platform, with 35,363 euros. Engineering, education and commercial are the next highest paying areas.
Most in-demand position
Precisely in the latter, commercial and sales (which accounts for 16% of the total vacancies), is where some of the positions that concentrate the greatest number of offers are found, such as teleoperator, the most in-demand profile of all in Spain, with 178,000 vacancies, and one of the only three that exceeds the 100,000 barrier (along with warehouse waiter and delivery vehicle driver). Also that of clerk (99,787), commercial representative (81,182) or real estate agent (73,039). Curiously, with the exception of the clerk position, the rest of them register a level of competition on the part of the applicants that is much lower than average (20 applications per teleoperator compared to 200 for store salespeople).
Among the 20 positions that concentrate the majority of job offers published by Infojobs, you have to reach position 16 to find a profile with vocational training or university training, such as that of an accountant. The rest are industry workers, forklift operators, waiters, cleaning workers, cooks, administrators or maintenance employees.
However, in the coming years, Esade and Infojobs consider that technical professions linked to Vocational Training will gain greater popularity. According to the report, the future of work will be marked by the technology sectors (although the effect of artificial intelligence is beginning to be noticed, in the 41% drop in offers for younger profiles); care and health, logistics and transportation (where the volume of vacancies has accumulated two years of growth and in 2025 it increased by 17%), tourism and sustainability.
IT and telecommunications professionals, along with healthcare employees, are the ones with the least competition for job offers. For example, veterinarians have an average of six registered per vacancy and dentists have 10, while ICT system architects compete with 11 candidates. “These data show the growing importance of specialization and adaptation to digital transformation, which are marking changes in the roles and skills required by professionals,” according to the study.
Madrid, Catalonia and Andalusia are the regions that register the highest proportion of job offers by far over the rest. But it is the Valencian Community that has recorded higher growth in the last year, with 21%, as a consequence of the growth of the logistics sector and the effects derived from the dana. The Balearic Islands and Murcia follow.
Structural market gaps
The report on the labor market by Infojobs and Esade focuses this year on a painful reality: working poverty is an increasingly present gap in Spain, as is the significant presence of multiple employment and pluriactivity, especially recurrent among young people.
But that is not the only structural gap in the market. He gap gender continues to be present and determines that, although women registered in the employment portal are the majority and have a higher education than men “in all cases (with the sole exception of engineering)” and represent 61% of applicants with a university degree, they continue to have a lower employment rate, suffer more temporary work and are at greater risk of unemployment. Something that gets even worse when they are under 25 years old or over 45. Because age-related inequality, which affects the entire Spanish population, has a greater impact on them.
