These apprenticeships will be the most popular in 2025
An analysis of the most popular apprenticeships in 2025 shows: Commercial apprenticeships cannot be displaced from the top spot. However, IT and retail professions are close behind. Compared to the previous year, however, there have been no shifts in the ten most popular apprenticeships.
Apprenticeships are highly valued in Switzerland, as shown by SERI's barometer of apprenticeships last year. 45% of all school leavers opted for basic vocational training in summer 2024. The apprenticeship portal yousty.ch has carried out an evaluation of the most popular apprenticeships.
The ten most popular apprenticeships
As can be seen from the usage figures, young people have clear preferences when it comes to choosing an apprenticeship. Based on the search queries on yousty.ch in German-speaking Switzerland, these are the most frequently searched apprenticeships compared to the previous year:
Top 10 apprenticeships 2024 & 2025 with descending popularity according to search queries on yousty.ch (01.08.2024 - 31.03.2025)
*GvE = Designing shopping experiences.
Still many unfilled apprenticeship positions
The occupation of commercial clerk EFZ is still by far the most searched for occupation, with 1.1 million (out of a total of 6.5 million) search queries. The cantons with the lowest proportion of searches for KV are AI (6.1% less than the national average), NE (-5.0%), VS (-3.7%) and TI (-2.6%)
It is noticeable that there have been no shifts in the top 10 compared to the previous year. The previous year's climbers (FaBe, Fachmann/-frau Apotheke EFZ) were able to maintain their position, while the relegated apprentices were also able to keep their position stable. The vacancy barometer shows that 13% of apprenticeships remained open in the last recruitment year.
There are currently 15115 (as of 28.04.2025) apprenticeships advertised on yousty.ch for 2025.
More exciting facts
The analysis by yousty.ch also shows that in the home canton of Crypto Valley (Canton Zug), as in the previous year, the occupations of computer scientist EFZ (+3.1%) and ICT specialist (+2.4%) are more popular than anywhere else in Switzerland. The occupation of care specialist EFZ (FaBe) is the least popular in the central Swiss cantons of ZG, OW, LU and NW and the most popular in the western Swiss cantons of FR, VS, NE and VD.
Another interesting detail: the proportion of search queries for the profession of pharmacy specialist EFZ (formerly pharmaceutical assistant) in the canton of BS is in line with the Swiss average. NE and VD top the rankings, while the rural cantons of OW, UR, ZG, AI, GR, LU, NW, JU and SZ have the lowest search rates.
Source and further information: www.yousty.ch
