Salaries also increased significantly in the pharmaceutical and construction industries

By: Trademagazin Date: 2025. 10. 21. 11:17

🎧 Hallgasd a cikket: Nyelv: Sebesség: 1.05×

The HR report prepared at the end of last year In the Korkép survey, employers expressed optimism about their recruitment plans for this year. However, in practice, this was manifested in a much more cautious attitude. In the second quarter of the year – in line with the global trend – there was a significant decrease in the number of advertised positions, and this trend continued in the third quarter – according to the recent third-quarter report of Profession.hu.

This year, it was observed that companies are recruiting more restrainedly, and this trend continued in the third quarter. In the previous quarter, there was also a double-digit percentage decrease in the number of advertised jobs, but in the third quarter, the decline was more than 15 percent compared to the same period last year.

In terms of category, companies also experienced moderate recruitment: only in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries did the number of advertised jobs increase, while in all other cases this number decreased. The number of new job opportunities fell the most in the hospitality, hotel, and tourism category, where they were reduced by half, followed by public administration (37%) and HR, labor (33%). The fourth and fifth largest decreases were in engineering jobs (32%) and IT, programming, development (30%).

Big increases

At the regional level, however, the number of job advertisements increased in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok and Komárom-Esztergom counties in the third quarter of 2025 compared to the same period of the previous year. In the former region, the growth was most pronounced in the areas of administration, assistant, office work (106%), construction and real estate (36%), and manufacturing, production (29%). In the latter county, the largest jumps occurred in the categories of IT, operations, telecommunications (256%), HR, labor (41%), and transportation, purchasing, logistics (28%). The labor market in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County is particularly active locally, as not only have job opportunities expanded, but also the number of applications (12%) showed the fourth largest increase nationwide.

Based on the advertisements containing salary information, the healthcare and pharmaceutical industry category showed an increase not only in the number of job opportunities, but also in the net average salaries offered, as these increased by 15% compared to the same period of the previous year. The greatest growth in this regard – albeit with a decreasing number of job advertisements – is seen in the fields of IT, operations, telecommunications (27%), construction (26%) and business support centers (21%).

Currently, employers active in the IT field rarely mention salary in their job advertisements (3-5%), but they are at the forefront when it comes to the possibility of working from home: this option is included in 42% of job advertisements in the IT, programming, development category, while in 29% of those in IT, operations, telecommunications.

Employees are still active

The number of applications decreased minimally, by 0.3%, compared to the same period of the previous year, but employee activity can still be said to be very high. The largest increase occurred in the counties of Vas (25%), Tolna (21%), Veszprém (15%), and Nógrád (14%), Hajdú-Bihar (14%), and Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén (7%) counties.

Examined by area, the largest jump in the number of employee applications occurred in business support centers (37%), marketing, media, PR (15%), and IT, operations, telecommunications (15%), while the largest decline was in hospitality, tourism (22%), company management, administration (20%), and law, legal advice (19%) during the period under review.

“In our survey last fall, companies were still fundamentally optimistic about their economic prospects and staffing plans for this year, but in the second quarter, there was a significantly more cautious attitude compared to preliminary plans The stagnation of the domestic economy for nearly three years is clearly reflected in labor market statistics: the number of job advertisements in the first eight months of this year decreased by 6 percent compared to the same period last year, while on average there were 10