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Job markets in the Australian Capital Territory

The Australian Capital Territory is one job market area in Jobs and Skills Australia's and the ABS's figures. This page sets it beside Australia; its own report has the detail.

Latest data
JSA September 2026; ABS 2023 to 2025 and the 2021 Census
Updated
25 October 2026
Areas
One job market area
Sources
JSA and ABS

Key findings

  1. Shrinking: online job ads across the Australian Capital Territory were down 6.9% on a year earlier, from 4,985 to 4,643 a month in the three months to September 2026.[1][2]

    Section 1: Job ads across the Australian Capital Territory →

1 Job ads across the Australian Capital Territory

Jobs and Skills Australia's Internet Vacancy Index is a monthly count of online job ads, compiled from SEEK, CareerOne and Workforce Australia. Regional figures are three-month averages. It is not a count of ViewJobs' own ads.

Australian Capital Territory
−6.9%
4,643 ads a month[1][2]
Australia
+0.6%
the sum of every area[1][2]

Online job ads, the three months to September 2026 against a year earlier.

Figure 1.1: Online job ads a month, Australian Capital TerritoryThree-month average, October 2023 to September 2026.
4k6k8k10kJan 2024Sep 2024May 2025Jan 2026Sep 2026Australian Capital TerritoryAustralian Capital Territory, Sep 2026: 4,6434,643

Sources: Jobs and Skills Australia[1]; ViewJobs analysis[2].

Show the numbers
Online job ads a month, Australian Capital Territory
MonthOnline job ads a month
October 20238,110
November 20237,478
December 20236,473
January 20246,158
February 20246,152
March 20246,881
April 20246,842
May 20246,812
June 20246,439
July 20246,194
August 20246,099
September 20246,341
October 20246,488
November 20246,176
December 20245,292
January 20254,980
February 20254,839
March 20255,323
April 20255,125
May 20255,062
June 20254,768
July 20254,827
August 20254,689
September 20254,985
October 20254,880
November 20254,678
December 20254,056
January 20264,012
February 20264,122
March 20264,630
April 20264,489
May 20264,441
June 20264,259
July 20264,393
August 20264,434
September 20264,643

2 Job market areas in the Australian Capital Territory

The Australian Capital Territory is one job market area, so its report covers the whole territory.

Table 2.1: Job market areas in the Australian Capital TerritoryOnline job ads are the three months to September 2026; ABS figures are the latest year for each.Scroll the table sideways for every column.
AreaAds a month, September 2026Change on a year agoMedian employee income, 2023Unemployment, 2021 CensusPopulation, 2025
Australian Capital Territory4,643−6.9%$79,6593.8%484,630

Sources: Jobs and Skills Australia[1]; Australian Bureau of Statistics[3].

Read the Australian Capital Territory job market report →

3 Notes and method

What the figures count, where they come from, and the rules these pages apply to them.

The areas
The reports cover 50 job market areas, 42 regional ABS regions and the eight capital cities: the areas Jobs and Skills Australia publishes online job ads for. Each has its own report.
Online job ads
Jobs and Skills Australia's Internet Vacancy Index is a monthly count of online job ads, compiled from SEEK, CareerOne and Workforce Australia. Regional figures are three-month averages. It is not a count of ViewJobs' own ads. It counts ads, not jobs filled, by occupation and area.
State and national ads
These pages read the index's series by area, so a state or national figure here is the sum of its areas, read at the same month for every area and marked as ViewJobs analysis. It can differ from the state and national totals Jobs and Skills Australia publishes separately.[2]
Small numbers
A figure under 5 ads a month is shown as "fewer than 5".
ABS figures
The latest ABS income figures here are for the year to 30 June 2023; population counts are more recent. Every figure shows its year. These pages take unemployment from the Census: each figure is the rate at the Census named, not a current rate. The ABS's monthly Labour Force estimates by region are not included yet.

4 References

Every figure on this page points at one of these entries.

  1. Jobs and Skills Australia, Internet Vacancy Index, September 2026. jobsandskills.gov.au/sites/default/files/2026-10/internet_vacancies_anzsco2_occupations_gccsa_and_sa4_regions_-_september_2026.xlsx. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Accessed 25 October 2026.
  2. ViewJobs, ViewJobs analysis of the Jobs and Skills Australia Internet Vacancy Index, September 2026. jobsandskills.gov.au/data/internet-vacancy-index. State and national figures are the sum of the ABS areas in Jobs and Skills Australia's regional series.
  3. Australian Bureau of Statistics, Data by Region, v1.6.0. dbr.abs.gov.au. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Accessed 25 October 2026.

Cite this report

ViewJobs (2026). Job markets in the Australian Capital Territory, data to September 2026. https://www.viewjobs.com.au/job-market/act

Licence

Contains data from Jobs and Skills Australia, and the Australian Bureau of Statistics, used under CC BY 4.0. ViewJobs has charted the data and, where marked as ViewJobs analysis, added areas together.

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