“Jobs analysis shows that by the summer of 2025 the number of new jobs in the industry has decreased significantly and salaries have stopped growing”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
The journalists came to this conclusion by studying the vacancies of the job search service hh.ru. They downloaded all vacancies from the site from January 2022 to 31 August 2025. After that, the authors of the study filtered among the employers of the MIC enterprise working on the direct needs of the front, they were 1266. Over the three years of the war, these enterprises published more than 577 thousand vacancies.
According to the analysis, hiring in the defense industry reached a peak in the first year of the war: in August 2022, almost 2% of all vacancies of the aggregator accounted for the MIC. In the summer of 2025, military enterprises published 34.5 thousand vacancies. According to the publication, even before the start of a full -scale invasion, in January 2022, employees were hired in the defense complex.
The increase in the volume of the state order in the MIC gave the start of the pursuit of salaries, exacerbated the shortage of personnel and dispersed inflation, journalists write. However, in the spring of 2025 salaries in the MIC ceased to grow. The income of defense enterprises offered in new vacancies has decreased by 10% since 2024. But at the same time, drones and rockets increase salaries for new employees, it is said in the study of the newspaper “Novaya Gazeta. Europe”.