Czench Republic Workforce Market Overview

There were approximately 245,573 job vacancies for about 284,430 unemployed individuals in 2024, meaning vacancies approached the number of people available to fill them rather than being far fewer.Approximately 66 % of Czech employers reported difficulties in finding qualified workers in a recent nationwide survey (2023).Employers reported around ~96,000 job vacancies at the end of May 2025, with about 3.3 job seekers per vacancy.Earlier in 2025, approximately 88,000–92,000 vacancies were registered monthly by the Czech Labour Office.As of 1 January 2024, the population of the Czech Republic was approximately 10.909 million people, according to official data published by the Czech Statistical Office for the end of 2024 which reflects the population at the start of that year.In 2023, more than 5.2 million people were active on the labour market in Czechia. The employment rate was 75.1%, 4.7 percentage points higher than the EU27 average and almost identical to 2018. In 2023, for women, the employment rate was 68.2%, for men, the employment rate was 81.6%, and for youth, the employment rate was 25.5%, with men and women having rates higher than the EU average and with only youth having a rate lower than the EU average.In 2023, 93.6% of the active workforce were from Czechia, 2.7% from other EU Member States and 3.7 from third countries. In the EU27, as of 2023, the highest proportion of the workforce comes from the respective country (85% on average), while on average a smaller portion is from foreign countries (4.3% from other EU Member States, and 10.5% from third countries).In 2022, most employees worked in manufacturing (30.9%), followed by wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles (17.9%), construction (9.8%) and professional, scientific and technical activities (7.5%). In terms of number of enterprises, most can be found in wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles (18.4%), professional, scientific and technical activities (17.2%), and construction (16%).