Careers in HR

Market pulse

What the Australian HR job market looks like today.

Counted from every live HR role advertised directly by an employer — career sites, job boards and public listings, pulled together daily and deduplicated. Recruiter-led roles are held separately and are not in these numbers. Free to read, nothing to sign up for.

Live right now

2,962

HR roles open across Australia, deduplicated so one job counts once.

Hiring them

1,938

Distinct employers and agencies with an HR role open today.

Where the roles are

NSW751
VIC707
QLD607
WA469
SA175
National126
NT50
TAS41
ACT32

How they are engaged

Full time2,339
Contract330
Part time291

What kind of HR work

Occupational Health and Safety737
Talent Acquisition376
HR Advisor343
HR Business Partner336
Early Career219
HR Manager196
Senior Leadership / Executive HR157
Training and Development137
Industrial and Employee Relations120
Injury Management / Return to Work111
Organisational Development55
HR Generalist53

Counted from the Careers in HR board on 5 September 2026. Roles move daily — these are a snapshot, not a live feed.

Why this is hard to find anywhere else

Nobody else is counting.

General job boards can tell you how many roles they carry. None of them can tell you how many HR roles exist across the country, because none of them look outside their own listings. This is assembled from all of them, plus employer career sites that never reach a board at all.

One job, counted once

The same role posted to three places is one entry here. Counts that double-count are worse than no counts.

HR, and only HR

No adjacent roles inflating the numbers. Every figure on this page is an HR role.

Collected daily

The board is rebuilt every night, so this reflects the market as it currently is rather than as it was.

What is not here

Counts, not listings.

This page deliberately shows shape rather than roles — no titles, no employers, no links. The board itself sits behind a subscription, partly because the content is aggregated from other people’s sites and partly because a free national view of every HR opening is worth rather more to a competing recruiter than to anyone actually looking for a job.

The roles behind these numbers.

One subscription opens the board itself, ranked against the roles you would actually take.

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