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.
The average salary in Ukraine reached UAH 19.5 thousand at the beginning of 2024, which is 30% or UAH 4.5 thousand more than at the beginning of 2022, according to a study of job offers by Work.ua.
“Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the labor market has recovered by 93% in terms of the number of vacancies,” the study says.
According to the published data, in January 2024, employers published more than 91 thousand vacancies, which is 6% less than in December 2023, and 7% less than in January 2022, but about 11 times more than in March 2022.
It is noted that, compared to pre-war figures, the number of vacancies has increased the most in Zakarpattia (55%), Ivano-Frankivsk (46%), Khmelnytsky (25%), Lviv (23%), Vinnytsia (20%), Rivne (18%) and Chernivtsi (16%) regions.
Kyiv (30.9 thousand vacancies), Lviv (almost 8.5 thousand), Dnipropetrovs’k (8.45 thousand), Odesa (5 752) and Kharkiv (3 347) regions remain the leading regions in terms of the absolute number of job offers. These regions account for 63% of all vacancies.
In terms of growth by category compared to pre-war figures, the top 5 categories were medicine and pharmaceuticals (+26%, to 6 thousand offers), education and science (+23%, to 4.8 thousand), security and safety (+22%, to 2.3 thousand), law (+13%, to 1.8 thousand), and retail (+9%, to 12 thousand).
At the same time, in 19 categories, there were fewer job offers in January 2024 than in January 2022. IT, computers, and the Internet are the slowest to recover.
Research by Work.ua shows that Ukrainians want to work remotely: in January 2024, there were already 3% more remote work offers (6.2 thousand) than in January 2022.
It is emphasized that there are many more vacancies in the public sector – in non-profit, charitable and public organizations: if in January 2022 there were 100 of them, now their number has exceeded 1100.
In addition, the number of vacancies for veterans has tripled. At the same time, such job offers still account for 7% of the labor market.
Also, since January 2022, the number of vacancies for pensioners has doubled (about 4% of the labor market). For people with disabilities, the number of job offers increased by 22%, and for students – by only 1%.
“Changes in the country’s life have also affected the labor market. Thus, professions that were not previously available on Work.ua have appeared on the site. First of all, these are specialists of the Defense Forces: combat medic, grenade launcher, mortar gunner, drone pilot, etc.”, the study states.
It is emphasized that there is a demand for mental health in society: an increase in vacancies can be seen for psychologists (+136% in January 2024 compared to January 2022) and psychiatrists (+129%).
There is a growing demand for rehabilitation specialists and doctors: massage therapists (+69%), nurses (+67%), cardiologists (+67%), rehabilitation therapists (+58%), surgeons (+56%), nurses (+51%), and dental assistants (+44%).
The forced migration of Ukrainians abroad has spurred demand for teachers of English (+40%), Polish (+69%), German (+93%), French (+200%), and Spanish (+218%).
The full-scale invasion affected the work of employees in the tourism, shipping, and construction sectors, so there were fewer jobs for tourism managers (-62%), crewing managers (-56%), architects (-54%), interior designers (-53%), and 1C analysts (-55%) due to the rejection of Russian software.
The biggest drop in job offers is in the IT sector: Front-end developer (-81%), back-end developer (-75%), tester (-63%), etc.
Work.ua experts said that the rejection of the Russian language has affected the labor market, and in January 2024, the vast majority of vacancies, namely 96%, were in Ukrainian.
