+353 1 903 8249 Live Jobs

Permit Pulse, monthly

Permit Pulse: October 2021

Ireland issued 1,588 employment permits in October 2021, level with September and up 23% on October 2020.

Who took themPrint or save as PDF

The month in numbers

October 2021 at a glance

This month

1,588

Level with the month before

Same month last year

1,291

Up 23% on it

Year to date

12,704

Down 9% on 2020

Employers with a permit this month

640

131 for the first time

Twelve months to October

Oct
1,588
Sep
1,588
Aug
1,376
Jul
1,529
Jun
1,307
May
933
Apr
1,000
Mar
1,049
Feb
965
Jan 21
1,369
Dec
1,134
Nov 20
1,366

Permits issued per month, all employers, all permit types.

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 1,588 employment permits in October 2021, level with September and up 23% on October 2020.

That brings the year to 12,704 permits, down 9% on the same point in 2020.

640 employers received at least one permit in the month, 131 of them for the first time.

University Hospital Limerick took the most, with 63.

Busiest counties: Dublin (723), Cork (101), Limerick (88).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in October

Open an employer for its month-by-month pattern, its address and how to approach it.

#EmployerCountyOctMonth beforeOct 20202021 to date
1University Hospital LimerickLimerick63278414
2Google Ireland LimitedDublin442731233
3Ernst & Young323210196
4Accenture LimitedDublin282019121
5Cork University HospitalCork28166184
6Eugene O Neill280828
7Facebook Ireland Limited262015184
8KpmgDublin2411257
9Children's Health Ireland23229135
10Amazon Web Services EMEA SARLDublin18218111
11Anglo Beef Processors IrelandLouth1813182
12Infosys LimitedDublin16111488
13St. James's Hospital16112102
14Deloitte Ireland LLP149257
15IBM Ireland Product Distribution LimitedDublin1411031

New to permits

131 employers took their first ever permit in October

A first permit usually means a company has just found out it can hire this way. These are the ones with the most.

EmployerCountyPermits
JMC Van Trans LtdDublin5
Leatrans LimitedLimerick4
Centreng Co. Ltd3
Mold Interiors LimitedWicklow3
BeNext Technologies Inc2
Coogan Meats LimitedMeath2
Donnachadh O'Brien & Associates Consulting Engineers Limited2
Novi Financial Ireland LimitedDublin2
ShinAwiL LimitedDublin2
Sohail Khan2

Where

Permits by county in October

Counted from the employers' registered addresses, so a head office in Dublin carries the permits for sites elsewhere.

Dublin (271 employers)
723
Cork (40 employers)
101
Limerick (18 employers)
88
Kildare (15 employers)
29
Galway (15 employers)
28
Louth (6 employers)
26
Tipperary (4 employers)
21
Meath (12 employers)
18
Waterford (6 employers)
15
Mayo (5 employers)
11

Earlier months

Every Permit Pulse

For employers

Thinking about a permit hire of your own?

Trade tested before anyone travels, the permit handled, no retainer. Tell us the roles and numbers and a member of our team will get back to you.

Start a hire

Source: Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment, Employment Permit Statistics. Contains Irish Public Sector Data licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. A permit issued to a company is a record of a past application. It is not a vacancy and not a promise of sponsorship.

Is this your organisation? To update what is shown here, or for more information, email us. The figures come from the published register; we cannot change the register itself, only how it is presented here.

Permit Pulse is compiled by Sama Talent Group from the Department's published permits-by-company figures. Figures for a month can be revised in later publications.