The local work report
Work in Delaware
9,990
Live openings our index could see in Delaware.
Counted exactly, against live rows, . Not a projection and not an annual average. A posting counts if its source still listed it at the most recent crawl.
960
9.6% of openings in Delaware
read as entry level, on our reading of the posting text.
That label is ours, not the employer’s. We read it from the posting, and it is not perfect: in a 3,000-row sample, 0.6% of postings we call entry level carry a senior-sounding word in the title, and some of those are fine (“Shift Supervisor Trainee” really is a trainee role). Treat it as a good guide, not a guarantee.
The other 9,030 openings in Delaware read as expecting experience a student does not have yet, which is a fact about the route rather than about them.
Which fields are hiring
Ranked by live openings. Shares are of the 8,712 postings we could classify, never of the state total, because the unclassified remainder is real.
Healthcare
2,19825.2%
Transportation and driving
89010.2%
Technology and software
8319.5%
Sales and marketing
8169.4%
Retail
6697.7%
Finance and accounting
4795.5%
Manufacturing
4785.5%
Customer service
3794.4%
Skilled trades
3554.1%
Food service
3544.1%
Childcare and education
2673.1%
Business and operations
2392.7%
Warehouse and logistics
1872.1%
Office and administration
1802.1%
Beauty and wellness
1311.5%
General labor
740.8%
Hospitality
700.8%
Creative and media
550.6%
Security and safety
360.4%
Engineering
80.1%
Agriculture and natural resources
70.1%
Science and research
60.1%
Community and social services
30.0%
A further 1,278 live openings in Delaware carry no field in our index. They are real postings we have not classified, and they are excluded from the shares above rather than distributed into them.
Where the work is
The 12 places in Delaware with the most live openings. For most students the honest answer to “can I do this without moving?” is on this list.
Place names are exactly as the employer wrote them and are not normalized, so one city can appear under several labels and a big metro can be split across them. Treat a row as a floor for that place, not as its total.
Wyoming
1,594
Wilmington
1,446
Newark
939
Dover
471
Manor
295
Middletown
279
Seaford
255
Milford
232
Paris
229
Millsboro
228
Nassau
220
Bear
203
How much experience these postings ask for
Our reading of the posting text, not a field the employer filled in. Every live posting gets one of these three, so unlike the field breakdown above there is no “did not state” residue here — which is itself the sign that the label is inferred rather than reported.
- 960
- Reads as entry level
- 6,786
- Reads as expecting some experience
- 2,244
- Reads as senior or specialized
What this is, and what it is not
It is a count of job postings our index held for Delaware at the moment this page was built. It is not a census of the Delaware labor market, and it is not a forecast.
Our coverage of Delaware is richer than our coverage of most states. We hold 101 indexed openings per 10,000 residents here, against a median of 47 across the states we can read. That is a fact about our index, not about Delaware’s economy, and the two are easy to confuse. Across all 52 the ratio between the best and worst covered is more than twentyfold, so comparing one state’s total against another’s tells you more about us than about them.
It is a floor, not a total. Nationally the index held 1,537,993 live US openings, of which 1,308,341 carry a state and 229,652 do not. Those unplaced postings are real work that we cannot put on a map, so every state figure on this page understates what exists.
Some of these postings will already be filled. Employers do not reliably take listings down, so a live posting means “still listed by its source”, not “confirmed open”. Anybody who tells a student otherwise is selling them something.