Jobseeker activity in Q4 2025 highlights strong interest in service, administrative, and trades roles. This blog explores what search behaviour reveals about Durham’s workforce.
4 2025 data shows many Durham jobs remain accessible, while wages continue to rise modestly. This blog looks at skills demand, pay trends, and job quality.
Retail, healthcare, and food services continued to drive hiring in Q4 2025. This blog examines which sectors and occupations shaped Durham’s labour market at year-end.
Durham’s labour market remained active in Q4 2025, with steady employer hiring and seasonal shifts in demand. This blog explores what the latest data reveals about local employment trends.
As 2025 comes to a close, Durham’s labour market reflects a year of transition, insight, and collaboration. From the Durham Workforce Data Walk to ongoing research and analysis, this year reinforced the importance of using local data to support better decisions for job seekers, employers, and service providers across the region.
The 2024 DWA Workforce Survey and Jobs First Durham tools reveal who makes up Durham’s workforce and how local data can connect job seekers and employers in real time.
Durham Region’s skilled trades and energy sectors are key to its economic future. Explore insights from the 2025 DWA Data Walk on apprenticeships, diversity, and the clean energy transition.
Durham Region’s labour market shows both opportunity and challenge. Explore 2025 DWA Data Walk findings on youth unemployment, hiring obstacles, and strategies to strengthen the local workforce.
The 2025 DWA Data Walk brought local labour market data to life through six interactive research stations. Explore the key themes and how data informs Durham’s workforce planning.
Jobseekers in Durham stayed active in Q3 2025, with more than 38,000 interactions on DWA tools. Searches focused on warehouse, retail, and personal support roles, with growing interest in work-from-home and apprenticeship opportunities. Explore what this reveals about Durham’s evolving workforce priorities.
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