EU
Spain
~31%
Work in exposed occupations
~6.80 m · estimate · 2025
10.0%
Unemployment
±0.0 pp (Jul 2026)
Aug 2026
22.7%
Youth unemployment (<25)
Aug 2026
0.9%
Job vacancy rate
Q2 2026
72.4%
Employment rate (20–64)
2025
20%
Firms using AI
2025 · EU average 20%
0.65
IMF AI Preparedness Index
IMF · 2023
22.2 m
Employed
2025 · Eurostat
Unemployment, monthly
SpainEU27Eurostat une_rt_m · seasonally adjusted
Who does what? — employment by occupational group
Tile size is the number employed, colour the group's average AI exposure.
Out of 100 workers — Spain
- 51Not exposed
- 18Minimal
- 5Low
- 12Medium
- 9High
- 5Highest
Outlook to 2035 (Cedefop)
The fastest growing and shrinking occupational groups between 2025 and 2035.
+11.0%
Change 2025→2035
7.78 m
Total expected openings
2025–2035
5.33 m
Replacement demand
+2.44 m
Expansion
- Food preparation assistants+50.9%
- Information and communications technicians+46.5%
- Business and administration professionals+44.0%
- Sales workers+34.0%
- Legal, social, cultural and related associate professionals+32.1%
- Refuse workers and other elementary workers+23.4%
- Teaching professionals−1.9%
- Handicraft and printing workers−8.7%
- Hospitality, retail and other services managers−9.7%
- Market-oriented skilled agricultural workers−19.6%
- Agricultural, forestry and fishery labourers−22.9%
- Personal service workers−32.5%
Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026
What employers say (WEF 2025)
19%
expected job churn by 2030
global: 22%
37%
of skills will change
global: 39%
95%
of firms run AI programmes
global: 88%
Small employer sample per country — indicative, not a precise measurement. WEF Future of Jobs Report 2025.