Skilled labor shortage? Over a quarter of all additional employees since 2011 work in the health and education sectors.

The largest contribution to employment growth came from the healthcare sector (NOGA 86) with around 94,487 newly created jobs, accounting for 16.1% of total growth. In second place is the education and teaching sector (NOGA 85) with 56,910 additional full-time equivalents (9.7% share). Thus, 25.8% of all additional employed persons were active in the health or education sector. In third place is administration, consulting, and management of companies (NOGA 70) with around 44,333 new full-time equivalents (7.6% share). The following sectors (TOP 10) contributed the most proportionally to growth: 7.2%: Information technology services (NOGA 62) 6.4%: Social services, excluding homes (NOGA 88) 5.6%: Homes, excluding recreational and holiday homes (NOGA 87) 5.1%: Building maintenance, gardening and landscaping (NOGA 81) 4.7%: Employment placement and temporary staffing (NOGA 78) 4.7%: Architectural and engineering offices, technical, physical and chemical testing (NOGA 71) 4.6%: Preparatory construction site work, building installation and other finishing trades (NOGA 43) Other sectors such as research and development (1.8% share, NOGA 72) contributed less to growth. Further sectors such as agriculture, hunting and related activities (NOGA 01, -1.1%) or the provision of financial services (NOGA 64, -2.3%) even declined.