The Ukrainian labor market showed recovery and growth in key indicators in 2025, as companies posted 818,400 unique vacancies during the year, while in December 2024, the number of active vacancies was 88,900, according to the final study of the labor market in 2025 by Work.ua.
According to the published data, in regional terms, a third of all vacancies in 2025 were in Kyiv and the Kyiv region. Another 9% of job offers were posted in the Lviv region, and 8% in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
The greatest demand among employers remained for workers in blue-collar professions and in manufacturing and services, each of which accounted for 10% of vacancies. The share of retail trade, sales and procurement, as well as logistics, warehousing and foreign economic activity, was 7% each.
Among employers, the largest number of vacancies in 2025 was posted by the Aurora multi-market, with 6,900 job offers. EVA offered 6,400 vacancies, Fora offered 5,500, Nova Poshta offered 4,100, Novus offered nearly 3,700, Silpo offered 3,500, ATB Market and Foxtrot offered about 3,300, Ukrposhta offered 3,100, and MHP offered 2,800.
Work.ua emphasizes that job seekers’ activity remained at a record high. In 2025, users of the portal sent more than 16.5 million responses to job vacancies, which averaged 31 responses per minute. A third of all responses were for remote work, while the share of remote vacancies on the market was only 7%. The most responses were received for vacancies in sales and procurement with a share of 12%, IT – 8%, middle management administrative positions – 8%, marketing – 7%, and service, secretarial, and retail positions – 6% each.
The most competitive position of the year was direct manager: the number of responses in one day reached 676, with a proposed salary of 20-28 thousand UAH.
In 2025, the average salary among vacancies on Work.ua increased by 22% to 27.5 thousand UAH. The largest increase was recorded in the Donetsk region, at 55%, which is associated with a change in the structure of vacancies. There was also a significant increase in salaries in the Ternopil region, at 25%, to UAH 25,000, in the Kyiv region, at 23%, to UAH 32,000, Rivne, Khmelnytskyi, and Cherkasy regions – by 20%, to UAH 24,000, Kharkiv region – by 19%, to UAH 25,000, Lviv region – by 17%, to UAH 28,000, and Sumy region – by 17%, to UAH 21,000. The only region where the average salary decreased was Kherson, by 2% to UAH 24,000, with only 1,000 vacancies posted in the region during the year.
In terms of professions, the highest salary growth was recorded in the categories of real estate, culture, and show business, by approximately one-third. Salaries increased by 25% in blue-collar professions and manufacturing, telecommunications and communications, by 23% in the hotel and restaurant business, by 22% in logistics, by 21% in the media and IT, and by 21% in construction. The smallest increases were observed in law (9%), medicine and pharmaceuticals (8%), education and science (5%), while salaries in the security and safety category remained unchanged.
At the same time, it is noted that for some IT managers, media buyers, luxury real estate sales managers, and security service managers, some employers offered salaries of over UAH 0.5 million.
