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Job markets in the Northern Territory

Online job ads, unemployment and pay across the Northern Territory's 2 job market areas, from Jobs and Skills Australia and the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Each area has its own full report.

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

Key findings

  1. Shrinking: online job ads across the Northern Territory were down 8.5% on a year earlier, from 3,094 to 2,830 a month in the three months to September 2026.[1][2]

    Section 1: Job ads across the Northern Territory →

1 Job ads across the Northern 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. This page adds up the 2 areas' figures.

Northern Territory
−8.5%
2,830 ads a month[1][2]
Australia
+0.6%
the sum of every area[1][2]
Areas with more ads
0
of 2; 2 had fewer[1]

Online job ads, the three months to September 2026 against a year earlier. An area counts as more or fewer when its change shows as more than 0.0%.

Figure 1.1: Online job ads a month, Northern TerritoryThree-month average, the sum of its 2 areas, October 2023 to September 2026.
2.5k3k3.5k4kJan 2024Sep 2024May 2025Jan 2026Sep 2026Northern TerritoryNorthern Territory, Sep 2026: 2,8302,830

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

Show the numbers
Online job ads a month, Northern Territory
MonthOnline job ads a month
October 20233,642
November 20233,502
December 20233,115
January 20243,047
February 20243,103
March 20243,421
April 20243,342
May 20243,337
June 20243,198
July 20243,231
August 20243,172
September 20243,333
October 20243,407
November 20243,359
December 20242,985
January 20252,931
February 20252,890
March 20253,194
April 20253,019
May 20253,011
June 20252,917
July 20253,053
August 20253,044
September 20253,094
October 20253,078
November 20252,948
December 20252,619
January 20262,533
February 20262,609
March 20262,972
April 20262,947
May 20262,920
June 20262,777
July 20262,758
August 20262,772
September 20262,830

2 Job market areas in the Northern Territory

Every job market area in the Northern Territory, with its online job ads and its latest ABS figures. Select an area for its report.

Figure 2.1: Online job ads, change on a year ago, by area, Northern TerritoryThe three months to September 2026 against a year earlier. Select an area for its report.
Greater Darwin: −11.7% on a year agoOutback Northern Territory: −1.7% on a year ago
  • Down more than 10%
  • Down 5–10%
  • Down 2–5%
  • About the same (±2%)
  • Up 2–5%
  • Up 5–10%
  • Up more than 10%

Source: Jobs and Skills Australia[1].

Show the numbers
Online job ads, change on a year ago, by area, Northern Territory
AreaAds a month, September 2026Change on a year ago
Outback Northern Territory961−1.7%
Greater Darwin1,869−11.7%
Table 2.1: Job market areas in the Northern 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
Outback Northern Territory961−1.7%$56,4528.9%105,272
Greater Darwin1,869−11.7%$72,5264.0%159,284

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

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]
The map
Areas are shaded by their change in online job ads on a year earlier. The shades are set from the spread of changes among the areas shown, so one change can take a different shade on a state page and on the national map.
Small numbers and ties
An area with fewer than 5 ads a month, now or a year earlier, is shown as "fewer than 5" and is not shaded or ranked. Areas tied at the figure shown share a rank.
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 Northern Territory, data to September 2026. https://www.viewjobs.com.au/job-market/nt

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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