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Business support, healthcare and personal services are among the categories declaring the most job vacancies in Luxembourg in 2025 and 2026, according to ADEM figures.
Despite a rise in unemployment, several sectors continue to struggle to recruit, particularly IT, healthcare and construction.
The number of jobseekers now far exceeds the number of available positions, yet the mismatch between offers and profiles remains pronounced in several skilled occupations.
In 2025, employers declared 36,984 job vacancies to ADEM, a figure that was almost stable compared to 2024 (+0.8%). This volume nonetheless masks very contrasting realities across sectors, between industries that continue to recruit heavily and others where demand is weakening, as recently highlighted by the Luxembourg Times.
While the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate calculated by STATEC reached 6.5% in August 2026, some occupations remain hard to fill, revealing a persistent imbalance between labour supply and demand.
Unsurprisingly, the "business support" category, which covers IT, accounting, secretarial work and consulting, remains by far the leading source of job vacancies in Luxembourg. It accounted for 26.1% of all vacancies declared to ADEM in 2025, or 9,668 positions, well ahead of every other category.
The single most sought-after occupation in the country remains IT study and development, with 1,430 positions declared over the year, followed by accounting (1,108 positions) and secretarial work (1,045 positions).
This trend is confirmed month after month in 2026. According to ADEM's communiqué for July, IT occupations, accounting and management, as well as secretarial and administrative support, are among those showing the strongest increases in demand. This is also reflected in ADEM's annual activity report, where IT remains, for the second year running, the field most sought after by Luxembourg employers.
This ranking should nonetheless be qualified. The "business support" category is also the one that saw the sharpest decline between 2024 and 2025, with a drop of over 10% in the number of vacancies declared. A sign that even Luxembourg's traditionally most dynamic sectors are not immune to the general economic slowdown observed since 2023.
Behind business support, two other major occupational families share third place in Luxembourg's job vacancy ranking: hospitality, catering, tourism and leisure on one hand, construction and public works on the other, each accounting for nearly 11% of total vacancies declared in 2025. Kitchen staff alone make up the second most sought-after occupation in the country, with 1,199 positions declared over the year, just behind IT.
These two sectors illustrate the diversity of profiles sought in the Grand Duchy, ranging from highly skilled roles to operational functions. Construction also shows a 5.3% increase in the number of vacancies declared between 2024 and 2025, an encouraging sign for a sector that had seen a sharp decline since the health crisis. Over five years, construction and information-communication remain the only branches yet to return to their pre-pandemic hiring levels, according to IGSS data cited by ADEM.
Retail and large-scale distribution round out this trio of high-demand sectors, with 2,213 job vacancies declared in 2025, or 6% of the total. According to ADEM's communiqué for March 2026, retail contributed significantly to the growth in declared vacancies that month, alongside specialised, scientific and technical activities.
While the largest volumes of job vacancies remain concentrated in business support and hospitality-catering, other sectors show the strongest growth dynamics. The "personal and community services" category, which includes early childhood education and socio-educational intervention, grew by 10.6% between 2024 and 2025, reaching 5,381 declared vacancies, placing it second in the ranking with 14.5% of the total.
The healthcare sector shows the strongest relative growth among the major categories, with a 17.9% rise in the number of job vacancies declared in one year. Transport and logistics follow a similar trajectory, with a 16.3% increase. Both sectors also rank among the hardest to recruit for, due notably to high language requirements and, for healthcare, obstacles linked to the recognition of foreign qualifications.
This dynamic is confirmed by the most recent data. According to Le Quotidien, citing ADEM figures for August 2026, secretarial work, IT, accounting, industrial cleaning, banking and law remain particularly sought after, with notable growth also for culinary production and daily living assistance, two functions directly linked to the ageing resident population.
These figures illustrate a paradoxical reality in the Luxembourg labour market: while the number of available resident jobseekers reached 20,136 at the end of August 2026, up 11.5% year-on-year according to ADEM, several sectors continue to struggle to recruit due to a lack of candidates matching the profiles sought. At the end of December 2025, the gap between the 21,090 available resident jobseekers and the 5,472 vacancies in stock remained considerable, but tensions by occupation remain very real in IT, healthcare, finance and engineering.
For Luxembourg companies, this situation calls for heightened vigilance in recruitment strategies, whether by revisiting language requirements, investing in internal training, or making greater use of measures facilitating the hiring of third-country nationals for occupations officially classified as in shortage.
The number of job vacancies in Luxembourg thus remains a key indicator for anticipating skills needs in the coming months, in a context where the economic slowdown has not entirely eliminated the labour market's structural tensions.
Which sectors have the most job vacancies in Luxembourg?
Business support (IT, accounting, secretarial work) ranks far ahead, followed by personal services, hospitality-catering and construction, according to ADEM's 2025 data.
Has the number of job vacancies increased in 2026?
Yes, year-on-year, declared job vacancies are rising, notably in August 2026 with a 5% increase compared to August 2025, but the number of jobseekers is growing even faster.
Which occupations are hardest to fill in Luxembourg?
IT, healthcare, finance and engineering are among the fields where ADEM records the most persistent tensions between labour supply and demand.
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