In June, the Kazakh labor market experienced a sharp surge in activity. After a lull in May, employers posted nearly 109,000 vacancies (+25.4%), and job seekers submitted 126,700 resumes (+38.3%). The main trend of early summer: the market was flooded with young graduates, and the salary expectations of some specialists reached 3.4 million tenge. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Kursiv Media.

According to the Electronic Labor Exchange (Enbek.kz), an interesting gap has emerged in the structure of supply and demand: the highest-paying vacancies do not match the most ambitious requests of candidates.

While businesses are ready to pay substantial sums to managers and oil workers, the highest demands come from narrow specialists in aviation, IT, and medicine.

Top salaries

**Offered by employers:** - Division director – about 1.98 million tenge - Well engineer – 1.31 million tenge - Deputy head of department – 1.38 million tenge

**Requested by job seekers:** - Pilot – 3.4 million tenge - System architect – 2.5 million tenge - Surgeon – 2 million tenge

Despite the million-tenge salaries at the top, the bulk of vacancies are concentrated in completely different sectors. Employers are experiencing a shortage of personnel in the social and real sectors.

Demand structure

Demand for low-skilled labor and mid-level specialists is now almost equal – 37-38% each. Highly qualified personnel are required only in every fourth vacancy (25%).

Experts attribute the June surge in resumes to the graduation season. Almost half of all job seekers (49%) are young people under 35. Moreover, women are now more active in the labor market than men (55% vs. 45%).

Geography

Employees are most actively sought in the south and in the capital. The leaders in the number of offers from employers were: - Almaty region - Astana - Shymkent

Since the beginning of 2026, more than 600,000 vacancies and over 730,000 resumes have been posted on the platform, indicating a full recovery of business activity.

Earlier, Kursiv reported that even for 400,000 tenge, employers cannot find couriers.