Job vacancies for early years practitioners have risen by 146 per cent since before the Covid-19 pandemic, reveals new data.
The Recruitment & Employment Confederation’s (REC) Labour Market Tracker finds that in January, active job vacancies for early years practitioners were up 146.2 per cent on pre-pandemic levels (February 2020), and 5.5 per cent higher than last January.
Similarly, active job postings for early education and childcare assistants were up by 30.2 per cent last month compared to February 2020.
There was an increase in active job postings for primary teachers also, but not to the same extent, with the number of vacancies up by 10.4 per cent on pre-pandemic levels.
