Madrid/Oviedo (EFE).- Last year, the most demanded qualifications to work in Asturias were the branches of Education and Pedagogy, which concentrated 9.87 percent of job offers and 19.58 percent of those for to university students, according to a report by Infoempleo and the specialized recruitment consultancy of the Adecco Group published this Thursday.
Also in great demand were Nursing, with 13.68 percent of the offers for university graduates, and Medicine and Biomedicine, with 12.03 percent.
Next came Business Administration and Law, with 5.66 percent of the offers addressed to university students; Computer Engineering, with 4.95 percent; Business Administration and Management, with 3.77 percent; Psychology and Educational Psychology, with 3.54 percent, and Physiotherapy, with 3.3 percent.
The report highlights that in Asturias, 50.43% of job offers that specify training request a university degree as a requirement to access employment, which represents an increase of 5.89 points compared to 2021.
This means that higher education continues to be the most sought-after year in regional job offers, after it was ousted by Vocational Training two years ago, and then regained its hegemony in 2021.
Nursing and Medicine at the forefront in Spain
The health crisis continues to condition the demand for degrees and Nursing and Medicine remain, for the second year, as the most demanded by companies in the country as a whole, followed in third place by degrees in Education and Pedagogy, which remove the position to Business Administration and Management, which moves to fourth place.
Nursing leads the list of most demanded degrees with 10.78% of the total offers for university students in 2022, followed by Medicine, with 10.52%, Education and Pedagogy (9.80%) and Business Administration and Management ( 5.26%).
Despite this first position, Nursing reduces its presence in relation to 2021 by 1.64 percentage points, when it accounted for 12.42% of the offers, behind Medicine, which in 2021 reached 13.41% of the demands employment, that is, 2.89 points less than now.
The degrees of Education and Pedagogy (with 9.80% of the offers) experience the greatest growth in the ranking, up to 7.85 points, displacing Business Administration and Management, which continues to decline although it remains stable in the contribution of the offer.
According to the report by Infoemepleo and the Adecco Group, these falls are an indication of how the care situation in health centers has been normalizing once the worst of the pandemic has passed. EFE