{
  "slug": "eu-hrtech",
  "name": "EU HR & Recruiting Tech",
  "updated": "2026-09-22",
  "page": "https://godofstartups.com/atlas/markets/eu-hrtech",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "facts": [
    {
      "metric": "Negotiated wage growth already agreed in collective contracts for first half of 2027",
      "value": "2.7",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "EU",
      "period": "2027-H1",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2026/html/ecb.pr260916~7bc58ebef4.en.html"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Share of employees whose collective agreements are already settled for first half of 2027",
      "value": "28.8",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "EU",
      "period": "2027-H1",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2026/html/ecb.pr260916~7bc58ebef4.en.html"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Job vacancy rate in ICT and computer-programming services",
      "value": "2.6",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "EU",
      "period": "2026-Q1",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Job_vacancy_statistics"
    },
    {
      "metric": "EU job vacancy rate (share of posts occupied and vacant that were vacant)",
      "value": "2.1",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "EU",
      "period": "2026-Q1",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Job_vacancy_statistics"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Unemployment rate expected 12 months ahead by bottom income quintile households",
      "value": "13.4",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "EU",
      "period": "2026-08",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2026/html/ecb.pr260918~295b3ab978.en.html"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Euro area negotiated wage growth, ECB wage tracker with smoothed one-off payments",
      "value": "2.2",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "EU",
      "period": "2026",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2026/html/ecb.pr260916~7bc58ebef4.en.html"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Share of fund managers naming Germany as a country where they increased or intend to increase EU exposure",
      "value": "19",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "DE",
      "period": "2025/2026",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.eif.org/files/publications/eif-equity-survey-2025.pdf"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Net balance of GPs reporting how their portfolio companies developed over the last 12 months",
      "value": "-18",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "EU",
      "period": "2025",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://www.eif.org/files/publications/eif-equity-survey-2025.pdf"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Over-qualification rate of nationals (tertiary-educated in jobs not requiring that level)",
      "value": "20.0",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "EU",
      "period": "2025",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Migrant_integration_statistics_-_over-qualification"
    },
    {
      "metric": "GDP per person employed",
      "value": "119167.84",
      "unit": "constant 2021 PPP$",
      "geo": "EU",
      "period": "2025",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.GDP.PCAP.EM.KD?locations=EU"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Growth of ICT specialists employed in the EU, 2015-2025",
      "value": "59.4",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "EU",
      "period": "2025",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=ICT_specialists_in_employment"
    },
    {
      "metric": "EU workers whose performance is assessed and rewarded automatically",
      "value": "13",
      "unit": "%",
      "geo": "EU",
      "period": "2024-2025",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/jrc-news-and-updates/impact-digitalisation-30-eu-workers-use-ai-2025-10-21_en"
    },
    {
      "metric": "EU workers whose working time is allocated automatically",
      "value": "24",
      "unit": "%",
      "geo": "EU",
      "period": "2024-2025",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/jrc-news-and-updates/impact-digitalisation-30-eu-workers-use-ai-2025-10-21_en"
    },
    {
      "metric": "EU workers whose working hours are digitally monitored",
      "value": "37",
      "unit": "%",
      "geo": "EU",
      "period": "2024-2025",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/jrc-news-and-updates/impact-digitalisation-30-eu-workers-use-ai-2025-10-21_en"
    },
    {
      "metric": "EU SMEs citing increased workload for existing staff as main consequence of skills shortages",
      "value": "48",
      "unit": "percent of SMEs",
      "geo": "EU",
      "period": "2024",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/news/eurobarometer-smes-and-skill-shortages-2024-03-14_en"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Total labor force",
      "value": "221.9",
      "unit": "million people",
      "geo": "EU",
      "period": "2024",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://data.worldbank.org"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Adults aged 25-64 who participated in education or training in the previous 12 months",
      "value": "28.5",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "EU",
      "period": "2024",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Adult_learning_statistics"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Unemployment, total (modeled ILO), European Union",
      "value": "5.923",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "EU",
      "period": "2024",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://data.worldbank.org"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Job vacancy rate, industry, construction and services (NACE B-S), annual average",
      "value": "2.4",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "EU27",
      "period": "2024",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/jvs_a_rate_r2?format=JSON&geo=EU27_2020&nace_r2=B-S"
    },
    {
      "metric": "Enterprises (10+ employees) that recruited or tried to recruit ICT specialists and had hard-to-fill vacancies",
      "value": "57.5",
      "unit": "percent",
      "geo": "EU27",
      "period": "2024",
      "tier": 1,
      "status": "ready",
      "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/isoc_ske_itrcrs?format=JSON&geo=EU27_2020&size_emp=GE10&indic_is=E_ITSPVAC2&unit=PC_ENT_ITSPRCR2"
    }
  ],
  "note": "status: ready = two or more independent sources or an official series; proxy = one source; context = macro background, not a validation figure."
}