Most high-demand jobs in Spain in 2020

In 2020, more sales representative positions were offered by Spanish employers than any other job title, closely followed by warehouse assistant and operator positions. Combined, these account for nearly one tenth of job offers that year. However, they also indicate different aspects of the country’s labor market demands.

The future of employment

Programmers and other IT-related professionals, which are already among the most demanded, are likely to become dominant in the future Spanish job market. Blockchain experts, machine learning specialists, chatbot designers and internet of things architects are among the most demanded professions of the future. Blockchain experts alone will encompass nearly seven percent of job offers in Spain. This is not surprising given the booming size of the blockchain technology market worldwide, a market which is expected to climb to over 39 billion U.S. dollars in size by 2025.

Coronavirus and the disruption of the job market

Spain was one of the economies most affected by the coronavirus (SARS-Cov-2) pandemic of 2020. According to the Bank of Spain, the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by between 10.7 and 11.6 percent as a result of the coronavirus. The economic havoc wreaked by the pandemic caused massive job losses, with unemployment soaring to 19 percent in 2020. In addition to reducing the number of jobs, the pandemic also shifted the job market's priorities. The most in-demand professions posted online during the lockdown were delivery person, teacher and insurance agent, along with different jobs related to the healthcare sector. As the economy recovers, the jobs offered will reflect recovery of the tourism and gastronomy jobs lost.