The summer showed no slowdown of job creation, as hiring across the US rose 7.2% year over year in August, according to the September LinkedIn Workforce Report. Throughout the summer, hiring stayed consistently strong with no signs of weakening, nor of further acceleration since July.

One exception to the positive national trend was in the Houston metro area, which saw a sharp decline in hiring compared to normal levels between Aug 27 and Aug 30 — during Hurricane Harvey.

The oil and energy sectors once again added the most workers, and had the biggest year-over-year increase in hiring at 16.3% increase. Manufacturing and industrial, up 7.4%; and government, education, and nonprofit, up 5.9%, rounded out the strongest industries.

Other key insights:

• Hospitality and travel skills are in demand as tourists flock to the fastest-growing US cities: The report found rapid growth in demand for people skilled in travel and hospitality skills in the fast-growing cities of Austin, Texas; Denver; and Jacksonville and Tampa-St. Petersburg, Fla. These skills include hotel management, reservations and hotel booking, tour operating, business travel, and destination marketing. Demand for travel and hospitality skills is also growing in Portland, Ore.; Oklahoma City and Phoenix. Across all these cities, operations, sales, and customer-facing roles are at the top of the list for open jobs.
• Detroit is the new Chicago, with surging demand for high tech skills: Detroit has rebounded from the depths of its 2008-2013 unemployment crisis with an unemployment rate that’s now closer to the national average and comparable to its Midwestern peers like Chicago and Cleveland-Akron.

The LinkedIn Workforce Report is a monthly report on employment trends in the US workforce, highlighting workforce trends in the U.S. and across 20 cities. Insights include whether hiring is up, down, or flat, which skills cities need most, and where workers are moving to and from.