According to the Hanoi Employment Service Center, in the fourth quarter of 2025, the salary offered by businesses is 5-10 million VND/month, accounting for 44.27% in Hanoi City.
Previously, in the third quarter of 2025, the most common salary offered by businesses was from 5-10 million VND/month, accounting for an overwhelming proportion of 62.17%. However, in the fourth quarter, this rate has sharply decreased to 44.27%.
Contrary to the above trend, there is a boom in the high-middle income segment: salaries from 10 - 20 million VND/month have witnessed a significant breakthrough, increasing from 31.84% in the third quarter to the leading market level with 54.23% in the fourth quarter.
This shows that in the late period of the year, businesses are focusing on recruiting positions that require higher qualifications or better remuneration to attract quality personnel," the Hanoi Employment Service Center said.
Regarding fluctuations at both ends of salary levels: Salaries over 20 million VND/month recorded a sharp decrease from 5.68% to only 1.08% in the fourth quarter. This reflects the trend of businesses limiting the recruitment of new positions of experts or senior leaders with excessive costs at the end of the fiscal year.
The recruitment market in the fourth quarter of 2025 strongly focuses on the group of workers with mid-range salaries (10 - 20 million VND/month). This may be the result of the increase in the demand for recruitment of intermediate and college-level professionals recorded in the same period, showing that businesses are prioritizing skilled enforcement forces with fairly stable incomes.
Regarding job search demand in the city, the trend of job search in the fourth quarter of 2025 shows that a labor force is actively shifting strongly to meet the new demands of the economy, clearly shown through career orientation and qualifications.
The labor market at the end of the year is shifting job search demand from the group of technical/machinery and equipment operation industries to the group of general laborers, administrative office workers and managers at all levels. The group of "machinery and equipment assembly and operation workers" is the group with the highest job search demand in the third quarter (38.10%) but has decreased by nearly half in the fourth quarter, down to 20.79%.
Going in the opposite direction is a significant increase in the "simple labor" and "office assistants" groups (both account for over 19% of workers' job search needs).
The leadership and management group has a sudden increase in job search demand in proportion, more than doubling from 3.98% (Q3) to 9.19% (Q4). This reflects the fluctuation of senior personnel or the need to change the working environment of the management team during the finalization and preparation for the new year.
