The Michael Page Swiss Job Index recorded an increase in the number of jobs advertised throughout Switzerland in June by 14.2% when compared to the previous year and 1.2% between May and June 2017.

The Index, which measures the number of advertised vacancies on company sites across Switzerland, showed that June continued the trend of growth in advertised job vacancies since January 2017.

The increase in advertised jobs was led by the transport, logistics and supply chain industry with year-on-year growth of up to 33.6% and monthly growth of 9.2%, depending on the type of job. The IT sector continued to boom, especially for systems specialists. Advertised jobs for systems specialists grew by 52.8% growth, year-on-year and by 6.6% between May and June 2017.

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“The strong demand for logistics specialists is driven by both the increase in exports as well as the demand for customers to shop across all channels – online, instore with scanning and traditional checkout options,” Nicolai Mikkelsen, Director, Michael Page, said. “This has made supply chain jobs more important and increased the demand for Entreprise Resource Planning systems specialists to ensure closer integration between sales, planning, manufacturing and delivery. In addition, companies are increasingly consolidating their supply chain and logistics hubs in Switzerland, due to its recognised leadership in this field as well as the ability to locally source well qualified and experienced candidates.”

The German speaking region grew by 1.6% compared with the Swiss Romande (-1.0%). The Mid-region showed the highest monthly growth in advertised jobs (3.1%) compared with the Lake Geneva region which posted a decline in advertised jobs (-2.3%).