The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has tracked a continual downward trend in job vacancies in the May quarter, with the bureau finding vacancies had fallen by 6.1 per cent in May compared to the same time last year.

 

The ABS found that job vacencies had decreased 2.6 per cent from the February quarter. The number of vacencies in the private sector was 158,600, while public sector was at 16,100.

 

The ABS statistics can be found here