Health care and social assistance, and construction, are expected to have the highest workforce growth over the next 3 years

In terms of new workers expected, health care and social assistance and construction are Victoria’s highest growth industries.
Together, both industries account for around 42% of new workers expected over 2025-28.

Industry	New workers expected ('000s), 2025-28
Health care and social assistance	90.3
Construction	64.5
Professional, scientific and technical services	35.9
Education and training	31.2
Retail trade	23.2
Accommodation and food services	21.2
Transport, postal and warehousing	19.3
Financial and insurance services	17.5
Public administration and safety	13.3
Manufacturing	13.2
Administrative and support services	8.6
Rental, hiring and real estate services	8.4
Wholesale trade	6.0
Agriculture, forestry and fishing	5.4
Electricity, gas, water and waste services	4.4
Arts and recreation services	3.6
Other services	3.2
Information media and telecommunications	2.9
Mining	0.7

Priority sectors identified in the Victorian Economic Growth Statement and Victorian Industry Policy will also see workforce growth over 2025-28. For example:
- 19,300 new workers are expected to work in the digital technologies sector, with in-demand occupations including software and applications programmers and ICT managers. Technological advances are also driving growth in emerging occupations such as cloud developers, solutions architects (who help businesses adapt to new technologies, methodologies and best practices) and automation engineers.
- 5,400 new workers are expected in agriculture, forestry and fishing, including in agribusiness. Agriculture and agritech technicians and agriculture consultants are emerging as important occupations in this sector.
- 2,200 new workers are expected in advanced manufacturing, including in occupations such as industrial, mechanical and production engineers and emerging occupations such as robotics engineers.