Market pulse
What the Australian HR job market looks like today.
Counted from every live HR role we can find — employer career sites, recruiters, job boards and public listings, pulled together daily and deduplicated so one job counts once. Both sides of the market, which is what makes the agency share below possible. Free to read, nothing to sign up for.
Live right now
3,800
HR roles open across Australia, deduplicated so one job counts once.
Hiring them
1,983
Distinct employers with an HR role open today.
Added this week
878
Roles we had not seen anywhere seven days ago.
Through an agency
20%
749 recruiter-led, against 3,051 advertised direct.
Where the roles are
How they are engaged
What kind of HR work
How much of each discipline goes through an agency
Where the share is high, the recruiter relationship tends to matter more than the application.
Which sectors are hiring HR
Share of employer-advertised roles by the hiring organisation’s industry. Agency-led roles are excluded — they report the recruiter’s industry, not the client’s.
Based on the 1,984 of 3,051 employer-advertised roles (65%) where the hiring organisation’s industry is known.
Counted from the Careers in HR board on 9 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, plus the recruiter-led assignments that sit alongside them.
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.
Both sides of the market
Employer-advertised and recruiter-led, deduplicated against each other. That is what makes the agency share above computable, and it is the number no job board can produce.
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.