“State of the Spain’s job market in 2025” report by InfoJobs – Esade confirms an increase in vacancies
The 16th edition of “The State of Spain’s Job Market” – a report published in 2025 by InfoJobs and Esade about the changes in vacancies and situations wanted posted on the InfoJobs website – recorded 2.5 million vacancies and 4.2 million persons who registered for at least one vacancy. These figures are indicative of a stable job market with increasing numbers of jobseekers, against a background of economic moderation and new recruitment methods.
In the words of Mónica Pérez, Director of Communications and Surveys at InfoJobs, “The stability of the job market, with a slight upturn in vacancies and an increase in applicants and persons signing up, reveals that professionals and companies continue to adapt to changes, at a time when employment is being shaped by digital and socio-demographic change.”
Anna Ginès i Fabrellas, an associate professor at Esade Law School and director of the Esade Institute for Labor Studies, also pointed out that “in 2025, the rate of employment increased, in other words, the job market grew for eleven years running, apart from 2020 due to the pandemic. Employment reached an all-time high (22.4 million) and the year ended with an unemployment rate of 9.9%, beneath the 10% barrier for the first time since 2008.”
Key sectors and most sought-after jobs
Rather than deliver merely a traditional analysis, the study focuses on professional fields, specific jobs, and the skills shaping the job market. This approach to employment delivers a thorough overview of the job market taking into account factors such as digitalization, sustainability and automation, all of which are driving the demand for more hybrid professional profiles and transversal skills whilst offering a more flexible perspective for understanding the evolution of employment.
Using this approach, the analysis pinpoints several key areas expected to shape the evolution of the job market in the coming years, such as technology, healthcare and wellbeing, logistics and transportation, tourism, sustainability, and technical professions related to vocational training.
In addition to this view of employment, the report also analyses job vacancies by professional categories, a standpoint providing an insight into the distribution of vacancies across different sectors and how they have evolved over the past year. Six categories account for more than 100,000 job vacancies posted on InfoJobs in 2025: Sales and Marketing; Purchasing, Logistics and Warehousing; Professions, Arts and Crafts; Customer Service; Tourism and Hospitality, and Quality, Production and R&D.
Geographical distribution of vacancies
The distribution of vacancies over Spain’s autonomous regions remained generally stable compared to 2024, with Madrid, Catalonia and Andalusia having the highest volume of vacancies. However, the fourth-ranking region, Valencia, has changed the most with its share of total vacancies up from 8% to 10% due to a 21% increase in the total number of vacancies compared to last year. This positive trend is driven mainly by the logistics sector, in addition to other sectors involved in the reconstruction and repairs required after the DANA flooding. Other regions where vacancies have also increased significantly include the Balearic Islands, Castile and León, and Murcia.
In terms of provinces, employment has grown considerably in Malaga, thanks, among other things, to the importance of the logistics sector both in this province and in the region of Andalusia as a whole. This is one of the factors that explain these figures.
The State of the Labor Market in 2025 Report by InfoJobs and Esade also includes contributions by Anna Ginès i Fabrella, Associate Professor of Labor Law at Esade Law School-URL, and the author of the article “La gestión algorítmica del trabajo: la necesidad de una regulación específica” (The Algorithmic Management of Work: The Need for Specific Regulations”; David López-López, Professor and Associate Dean of Esade’s Full-Time MBA program, and the author of “Inteligencia Artificial y empleo: el año que redefine el liderazgo” (Artificial Intelligence and Employment: The Year that Redefines Leadership), and Omar Rachedi, Professor in Esade’s Department of Economics, Finance, and Accounting, the author of “El talón de Aquiles del milagro laboral: la productividad” (The Achilles’ Heel of the Labor Miracle: Productivity.)
