Adzuna Australia skills demand data

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a widespread shift to remote work,
reducing the level of face-to-face interaction between workers
and changing their modes and patterns of communication.
This study tests whether this transformation in production
processes has altered the longstanding labour market trend of
increasing demand for interpersonal skills. To address this question, we
integrate an established skills taxonomy with the text of over 12
million job postings (covering the period from 2015 to 2022) to
measure trends in skills demand at the aggregate and occupational levels.
We find that since the start of the pandemic there has been a
significant and sustained acceleration in the aggregate demand
for interpersonal skills. We also find a strong positive association
between an occupation’s propensity for remote work and the level
of acceleration in interpersonal skills demand for the
occupation. Our findings suggest that interpersonal skills continue to
grow in importance for employment in the post-pandemic, remote
work friendly labour market.