The Hanoi Employment Service Center believes that the employment picture in the Capital in June 2026 is vibrant, but the pressure to shift the quality of personnel will become increasingly greater according to some major trends.
Accordingly, other service sectors and food and beverage services continue to be the main driving force attracting labor. Due to the abundance of office personnel and general labor, service businesses will shift to higher recruitment criteria, prioritizing personnel with good communication skills, foreign languages and multitasking capabilities instead of recruiting large numbers in large numbers.
The processing and manufacturing industry is forecast to still maintain stable demand. However, with a part of the production line shifting to the suburbs and inner city of Hanoi, job opportunities for simple workers in the inner city will be significantly narrowed. Businesses will shift to focusing on recruiting technical staff and professional professionals with practical skills (graduated from colleges, intermediate schools or experienced technical workers).
Hanoi's labor market is increasing the demand for recruitment and salary levels for the construction industry. Unlike the manufacturing sector, the construction industry will enter an extremely fierce competition for personnel when major projects (Belt Road 4, urban railway network, Olympic urban area) enter the construction phase. This pressure forces large general contractors to push the salary level up by 10-20% (engineers can reach 30-55 million VND/month, mechanics up to 65 million VND/month). The biggest bottleneck is still the risk of a shortage of high-level engineers and technicians.
Hanoi Employment Service Center said that June 2026 witnessed the "rise" of experienced and multi-tasking middle-aged personnel. Statistics show that more than 82% of job seekers are in the age range of 25-54 years old, with a very realistic salary range expected from 5-20 million VND/month (accounting for 92.9%). In the context of increasing input cost pressure, businesses that optimize their apparatus will prioritize recruiting these mature personnel if they prove their multi-tasking skills, know how to apply technology/AI to increase efficiency and have the ability to manage commodity and warehouse risks.
In addition, the Hanoi Employment Service Center recorded the trend of restructuring the labor space. There will be a wave of labor migration from the inner city center to the suburbs (Dong Anh, Hoai Duc, Dan Phuong...) following large infrastructure projects, creating new job growth poles. In parallel, there is the development of occupational groups related to operation and management. Demand will gradually shift from basic construction workers to the need for building management personnel, electrical maintenance, toll-collecting operating staff...
