Israeli Software-Developer Vacancies Fall 6% to 5,959

Software-developer vacancies in Israel fell 6% to a monthly average of 5,959 in August–October 2026, according to new Central Bureau of Statistics figures released on November 15. The comparison is with the overlapping July–September period. Openings for network technicians also declined 6% in the latest three-month average. The figures show different trends across technical occupations. Engineers had an average of 11,213 vacancies a month, down 3%. That category includes computer, electrical, industrial and management, and mechanical engineers, among other specialties. Openings for practical engineers and technicians rose 5% over the same comparison period. Outside those technical categories, sales workers had 12,117 monthly vacancies, up 3%, while openings for waiters and bartenders fell 10% to 7,758. Across the economy, the seasonally adjusted number of vacancies declined from 146,757 in September to 143,770 in October, a reduction of nearly 3,000 openings. The national vacancy rate fell from 4.4 to 4.32 openings per 100 employees. The rate had stabilized around 4.5 from mid-2024, compared with about 3.5 in 2019 and approximately 5 following the pandemic.