{"id":15,"date":"2026-07-02T18:35:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T18:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/localwork.com\/news\/2026\/07\/02\/jobs-market-update-hiring-slows-in-tech-accelerates-in-healthcare-and-skilled-trades\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T02:20:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T02:20:28","slug":"jobs-market-update-hiring-slows-in-tech-accelerates-in-healthcare-and-skilled-trades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/localwork.com\/news\/2026\/07\/02\/jobs-market-update-hiring-slows-in-tech-accelerates-in-healthcare-and-skilled-trades\/","title":{"rendered":"Jobs Market Update: Hiring Slows in Tech, Accelerates in Healthcare and Skilled Trades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. labor market continued its sector-divergence trend in June 2026, with technology sector hiring posting its fifth consecutive month of contraction while healthcare and skilled trades employers report near-record open positions. The bifurcated job market is creating new challenges for recruiting teams, job boards, and workforce planners trying to calibrate sourcing strategies.<\/p>\n<p>Technology job postings on major boards fell 12% month-over-month in June, driven largely by continued headcount optimization at large software companies and a slowdown in venture-backed startup hiring. The decline was steepest in roles related to software engineering, product management, and data science \u2014 categories that surged during the 2020\u20132022 expansion.<\/p>\n<h2>Healthcare and Trades Tell a Different Story<\/h2>\n<p>By contrast, healthcare employer postings rose 9% in June, led by demand for registered nurses, medical technologists, and home health aides. The aging U.S. population and the retirement of pandemic-era healthcare workers are creating structural shortages that recruiting technology alone cannot solve.<\/p>\n<p>Skilled trades \u2014 electricians, HVAC technicians, plumbers, and welders \u2014 also saw a significant uptick. Infrastructure spending and reshoring manufacturing activity are driving demand that far exceeds the available supply of credentialed workers. Workforce development platforms and apprenticeship management software are seeing increased customer interest as employers look beyond traditional ATS workflows to build talent pipelines from the ground up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech hiring fell 12% in June while healthcare postings rose 9% and skilled trades demand surged, reflecting a structurally diverged U.S. labor market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jobs-market"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jobs Market Update: Hiring Slows in Tech, Accelerates in Healthcare and Skilled Trades - LocalWork News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/localwork.com\/news\/2026\/07\/02\/jobs-market-update-hiring-slows-in-tech-accelerates-in-healthcare-and-skilled-trades\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jobs Market Update: Hiring Slows in Tech, Accelerates in Healthcare and Skilled Trades - 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