The weight of professional training in the Spanish labor market is gaining ground little by little, even imposing itself to the demand for university degrees.
According to the Adecco 2024 Infoempleo report, 46.96% of the job offers published during the last year asked the candidates have a FP titlewhich means an increase of five percentage points compared to the previous year. This growth consolidated FP uprising trend as a priority way to access a job in Spain.
FP gains land to university titles. according to The report ‘Adecco 2024 Infoempleo: Supply and demand for employment in Spain‘, the vacancies aimed at university degrees They have receded strongly against the promotion of the demand for profiles with FP degrees.
In 2024, university profiles only represented 21.42% of the new job offers published in Spain, which represents a 6.1 percentage points with respect to the 2023 records. The authors of the report emphas To technical needs Already the shortage of qualified labor.
More upper cycles, less than average degree. However, despite the global increase in the requests for professional training specializations, not all degrees have evolved the same in the labor market.
Study data reveal that companies have increased the demand for candidates with higher degree training cycles, monopolizing 33.03% of offers that demanded professional training. This data is an increase of 7.31 points with respect to the data recorded in 2023.
In contrast, the job offers that demanded 2.25 points in the same period, staying in 13.93%, marking a trend among companies to demand candidates with a greater professional specialization.
Old habits, new needs. A striking fact is that 75.93% of vacancies requesting a FP degree in their job offers does not specify the specific professional family of that degree. All they ask is for the candidate to have a Title of that formative levelwhich leads us to the old habits of human resources departments to request a university degree in positions that did not require it.
In those offers in which more concrete requirements are established, the most demanded professional areas are administration and management (6.29%), followed by electricity and electronics (4.5%) and mechanical manufacturing (2.61%).
According to the authors, the rise of the FP is also explained by changes in the productive sectors. Offers are increasingly oriented towards areas such as industry, Construction and logistics, to the detriment of the most generalist services, which have lost weight in a remarkable way. For example, the services sector concentrated 23.97% of vacancies in 2023, but in 2024 this percentage fell to 18.38%, a drop of 5.5 points.
Madrid and Catalonia lead the demand for FP. If we take into account the geographical distribution of the demand for graduates in FP, some clear differences come to light. Madrid concentrates 27.67% of the offers aimed at FP graduates, standing as the community with the most demand for the third consecutive year.
Just behind is Catalonia, with 25.45%, followed by Andalusia, with 9.78%. Only these three communities total 62.68% of the total employment offer for professional training profiles in Spain, highlighting the importance of the FP in the main industrial poles of the country and its High demand for qualified personnel.
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