IRELAND
About the EURES Member
Why live and work in Ireland?
Ireland is a beautiful country with good beer. We look forward to meeting you. We have a lot of job opportunities for you! In 2025 salaries start at 6000 euros.
you don' t have so may sunny days as in Italy but you will enjoy the soft rain and the great food and the green landscape.
The modern economy of Ireland is focusing on services and high-tech industries and is dependent on trade, industry and investment.
The latest annual Vacancy Overview statistics show skills shortages across a range of occupations including:
- Professionals/associate professionals
- ICT (software developers/engineers, network planners/engineers, web developers, content reviewers, systems analysts/engineers, technical architects, test/network/security engineers, IT project managers/business analysts)
- Engineering (project, process, quality, design, product, R&D, EHS, automation)
- Science (microbiologists, QA and QC chemists, scientists - medical, R&D, process, analytical)
- Business & finance (business/risk analysts, project managers, compliance/regulatory affairs, financial accountants, data scientists)
- Health (nurses - staff/clinical, medical practioners - registrars/SHOs, ragiographers, pharmacists, psychologists, social workers, physiotherapists, dieticians, speech and language/occupational therapists)
- Construction (quantity surveyors, project managers, structural/civil/site engineers, architects)
- Clerical (office/payroll/financial administartors, accounts assistants, credit controllers, logistics/transport coordinators, receptionists, stocktakers)
- Skilled trades (chefs, mechanics, carpenters, welders, fitters, butchers/de-boners, maintenance/engineering technicians)
- Sales (sales assistants, sales advisors, merchandisers, multilingual customer support, telesales agents)
- Operatives (production/manufacturing operativers, drivers (artic, HGV, rigid, delivery, machine), quality control supervisors)
- Retention issues (care, childcare, personal services, elementary)
More details on these shortages can be found in https://www.solas.ie/f/70398/x/7b02b880e3/national-skills-bulletin_2020.pdf
Text last edited on: 01/2021
Occupations seeing the most unemployment are
- elementary,
- skilled trades
- managers/professionals
- sales
- operatives
For more information see https://www.solas.ie/f/70398/x/7b02b880e3/national-skills-bulletin_2020.pdf
Employment up 25,900 (1.9%) for males and 62,500 (5.2%) for females in the year to Q2 2023
The latest annual Vacancy Overview statistics show skills shortages across a range of occupations including: fishing and entertainement for fishes
Science & Engineering Occupations
- Professionals/associate professionals
o ICT (software developers/engineers, network planners/engineers, web developers, content reviewers, systems analysts/engineers, technical architects, test/network/security engineers, IT project managers/business analysts)
o Engineering (project, process, quality, design, product, R&D, EHS, automation)
Business & Financial Occupations
o Health (nurses - staff/clinical, medical practioners - registrars/SHOs, ragiographers, pharmacists, psychologists, social workers, physiotherapists, dieticians, speech and language/occupational therapists)
o Construction (quantity surveyors, project managers, structural/civil/site engineers, architects)
- Clerical (office/payroll/financial administartors, accounts assistants, credit controllers, logistics/transport coordinators, receptionists, stocktakers)
- Skilled trades (chefs, mechanics, carpenters, welders, fitters, butchers/de-boners, maintenance/engineering technicians)
- Sales (sales assistants, sales advisors, merchandisers, multilingual customer support, telesales agents)
- Operatives (production/manufacturing operativers, drivers (artic, HGV, rigid, delivery, machine), quality control supervisors)
- Retention issues (care, childcare, personal services, elementary)
for more details --> https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-lfs/labourforcesurve…
