A stable unemployment rate of 6.3%, accompanied by an acceleration in the rise in job vacancies

As at 31 July 2026, ADEM recorded 19,943 registered resident jobseekers available for work, i.e. 1,547 more people than at the end of July 2025 (+8.4% year-on-year).

This year-on-year increase is almost twice as strong among the most highly qualified jobseekers (+16.3%), who account for one third of all those concerned. In terms of age groups, the increase is more pronounced among young people (+10% year-on-year) and less marked among those aged 45–64 (+6.8% year-on-year).

In terms of occupations sought, the strongest increases concern IT occupations (ROME category M18), industrial cleaning and sanitation occupations (ROME category K22), banking occupations (ROME category C12), as well as legal occupations (ROME category K19). Business support occupations are also particularly sought after, with increased demand for accounting and management occupations (ROME category M12), secretarial and assistance occupations (ROME category M16), as well as organisation and research occupations (ROME category M14).

The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate, calculated by STATEC, stands at 6.3%.

In July 2026, the number of new registrations of resident jobseekers decreased by 1.9% year-on-year, with 2,799 new registrations compared with 2,854 in July 2025.

The number of resident jobseekers receiving full unemployment benefits stood at 10,148¹ at the end of the month. Jobseekers with professional redeployment status who receive the waiting allowance (IA) or professional waiting allowance (IPA) numbered 1,587².

The number of residents benefiting from an employment measure stood at 4,441, representing an increase of 5.7% compared with July 2025.

As regards non-residents, 870 people registered with ADEM in July 2026 (+16.0% year-on-year). There were 4,128 available non-resident jobseekers (+24.5% year-on-year), of whom 2,482 had external professional redeployment status and were therefore eligible for financial assistance paid by ADEM under the same conditions as residents. For this latter category, the year-on-year increase was 9.5%. The other non-residents registered with ADEM did so on their own initiative and are not entitled to any financial assistance. At the end of July 2026, this category comprised 1,646 people (+56.9% year-on-year).

In July 2026, 1,068 non-resident jobseekers with external professional redeployment status received full unemployment benefits, while 1,863 received a waiting allowance (IA) or professional waiting allowance (IPA)³.

In July 2026, employers declared 3,754 job vacancies to ADEM, corresponding to a 12.8% increase compared with July 2025. The stock of available job vacancies at the end of the month stood at 7,183 positions, an increase of 6.5% year-on-year. The occupations recording the strongest year-on-year increases are in the fields of paramedical care (ROME category J15), information and telecommunications systems (ROME category M18), as well as social, socio-educational and socio-cultural services (ROME category K12), construction (ROME category F11), and organisation and research (ROME category M14).

[1] The statistical series relating to recipients of full unemployment benefits / IA / IPA are subject to a rolling monthly revision covering the previous twelve months in order to take account of the retroactive granting of entitlement to benefits.
[2] See note above.
[3] See note above.

• An available resident jobseeker is a person registered with ADEM who resides on Luxembourg territory and who on the date of the statistical statement is neither in employment, nor assigned to an employment measure, nor on sickness or maternity leave.
• A resident jobseeker is a person registered with ADEM who resides in Luxembourg and who, on the date of the statistical report, is assigned to an employment measure.
• An available non-resident jobseeker is a person registered with ADEM who does not reside in Luxembourg and who, on the date of the statistical report, is neither in employment, nor assigned to an employment measure, nor on sickness or maternity leave.
• A jobseeker with reduced capacity for work is a person who benefits from an external reclassification decision pursuant to articles L.551-1 et seq. of the Labour Code.
• A recipient of full unemployment benefit is a person who is registered with ADEM and who is receiving benefit under article L. 521-1 et seq. of the Labour Code.
• A beneficiary of a waiting allowance or a waiting professional allowance is a person registered with ADEM and receiving compensation under application of article L. 551-5 of the Labour Code.
• The unemployment rate is the ratio between the number of available resident jobseekers and the resident active population.

More detailed interactive tables relating to the above data can be found in the ‘Key figures’ section of the ADEM website.

Raw data are also available on the Statistics Portal via the ‘Open Data’ portal.

The August 2026 data will be published on 21 September 2026.