{"id":400499,"date":"2026-04-27T21:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/400499\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T21:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:17:09","slug":"seek-reveals-the-10-most-in-demand-jobs-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/400499\/","title":{"rendered":"Seek reveals the 10 most in-demand jobs in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jobs for heating, ventilation and air conditioning technicians (+118.8%), designers in engineering (+117.1%) and roofers (+108.8%) rounded out the top six.<\/p>\n

Chapman said there was a strong presence of trades and construction roles in the top 10.<\/p>\n

\u201c[This] reflects ongoing workforce needs in housing and infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n

The trades and services industry featured three times in the top 10, followed by construction and information and communication technology with two each.<\/p>\n

\u201cOverall, the list shows a labour market that is grounded in practical, skilled work while also shifting toward a more technology-enabled future, and that balance is something we expect to see continue throughout 2026,\u201d Chapman said.<\/p>\n

This month, Seek NZ\u2019s Employment Report showed job ad volumes continued to grow across the board, rising 0.8% in March on a monthly basis and 13% year on year.<\/p>\n

The largest annual rise recorded was in construction, up 36%.<\/p>\n

Demand for AI skills<\/a> has also grown exponentially over the past few years, with AI references in job ads up 143.5 % since March 2025 \u2013 and over five times higher than they were in 2019.<\/p>\n

However, AI references currently appear in only 2.9% of job ads on Seek.<\/p>\n

\u201cOverall, the March data reinforces what we\u2019ve been seeing build since late 2025 \u2013 a broad-based, durable recovery anchored in goods-producing industries, essential services, and infrastructure-related hiring,\u201d said Seek country manager Rob Clark.<\/p>\n

Top 10 in-demand jobs:<\/p>\n

(September 2025-February 2026 compared with September 2024-February 2025)<\/p>\n

Automation engineer (information and communication technology) +184.8%Salesperson (sales) +145.5%Truck driver (construction) +126.1%Heating, ventilation and air conditioning technician (trades and services) +118.8%Designer (engineering) +117.1%Roofer (trades and services) +108.8%HIAB crane operator (manufacturing, transport and logistics) +97.4%Interpreter (trades and services) +94.4%Machine operator (construction) +93.4%Technical lead (information and communication technology) +81.5% <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jobs for heating, ventilation and air conditioning technicians (+118.8%), designers in engineering (+117.1%) and roofers (+108.8%) rounded out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9055,2246,3225,3471,138,3105,71,78,206675,232,17382,3025,111,139,69,1517,3599,667,11925,145,223,21637],"class_list":["post-400499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-9055","tag-2246","tag-according","tag-among","tag-business","tag-data","tag-from","tag-in","tag-indemand","tag-jobs","tag-logistics","tag-most","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-reveals","tag-roles","tag-sales","tag-seek","tag-technology","tag-the","tag-trades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}