Nearly one quarter of employed people have the opportunity for home office, with the distribution being very unequal:
In the salary bracket over €3,100 per month, working from home is possible in almost every second job; in the lowest salary bracket in less than two percent, according to the labour-market data–specialist company Nejo after analysing over 27,000 current job postings.
According to this, vocational training is currently significantly more in demand on the labour market than a university degree; in particular, higher academic qualifications are rarely explicitly required. Thirty-six percent of the examined job postings required a completed apprenticeship—more than twice as many as those demanding a completed degree (16 percent).
Work Experience Gains Importance
“In almost one third of the analysed jobs no specific educational requirements are mentioned—possibly an indication of the growing importance of work experience over formal qualifications,” said Aloisious Caraet, study author and Data Scientist at Nejo.
Companies Rely on Further Training
Instead, companies focus on further training. More than half of all examined job postings advertise this, followed by employee discounts, flexible working hours, and varied tasks. “In contrast, future topics such as sustainability, mental health, or childcare play only a minor role,” said Caraet.
IT Sector Emphasises Team Events
It is striking that, depending on industry and federal state, companies rely on different incentives. In the IT sector, it is primarily an informal work culture as well as team events and excursions. Postal and courier services, on the other hand, mainly want to score points with a secure job.
Viennese employers offer public-transport tickets above average, while Lower Austrian companies aim to attract candidates with family-friendly measures and more vacation.
“Green Jobs” Led by Vienna and Styria
And what about the much-cited “green jobs”? One fifth of all analysed positions could be classified as environmental-protection jobs, with Vienna and Styria leading here.
The AI technology used by Nejo for the current “Labour Market Radar 2025” was developed in cooperation with FH Technikum Vienna. The study is available free of charge at www.mynejo.com/analytics.
