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The number of media industry jobs advertised in Sydney and Melbourne lifted in May, according to Mercury Talent's latest hiring data.
The total number of advertised media industry jobs rebounded in May to 413 jobs, up 6.4% from April but still below the 420 in March.
Sydney remains the biggest media industry jobs market with 74% of advertised positions. The Sydney job market grew 8.5% while the Melbourne job market went backwards 7.5%.
Looking at job functions, the CEO role at CRA was the only top management role in May.
The number of advertised content roles fell a further 10% to 99 jobs which is 20% below the 124 content roles advertised in March.
After dipping in April, product roles rebounded in May to March levels.
Demand for sales people grew another 2.5% in May to 162 advertised jobs, up 12% from the 145 in March.
Marketing/comms roles grew to 39 from 32, up slightly from the 36 in March.
Of the 413 advertised media industry jobs tracked by Mercury Talent in May, just under half (200) were junior executive level positions and another 192 were mid level roles.
Only 21 positions (5%) were director/senior management roles, bad news for media leaders hit by the waves of consolidation and redundancies over the past 6-12 months.
In Melbourne, the top recruitment advertisers in May were SCA, REA, oOh! Media, ARN and Nine.
For Sydney, it was TikTok, News Corp, Nine, the ABC, Are Media and Foxtel.
Overall, the biggest recruiters for May were News Corp, TikTok, Nine, the ABC, REA, SCA, Foxtel, Are Media, SBS, Google and oOh! Media.
View the May jobs HERE:
And track June jobs HERE:
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