+353 1 903 8249 Live Jobs

Permit Pulse, monthly

Permit Pulse: February 2022

Ireland issued 2,539 employment permits in February 2022, up 11% on January and up 163% on February 2021.

Who took themPrint or save as PDF

The month in numbers

February 2022 at a glance

This month

2,539

Up 11% on the month before

Same month last year

965

Up 163% on it

Year to date

4,817

Up 106% on 2021

Employers with a permit this month

976

181 for the first time

Twelve months to February

Feb
2,539
Jan 22
2,278
Dec
2,018
Nov
1,553
Oct
1,588
Sep
1,588
Aug
1,376
Jul
1,529
Jun
1,307
May
933
Apr
1,000
Mar 21
1,049

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

What the numbers say

Ireland issued 2,539 employment permits in February 2022, up 11% on January and up 163% on February 2021.

That brings the year to 4,817 permits, up 106% on the same point in 2021.

976 employers received at least one permit in the month, 181 of them for the first time.

Google Ireland Limited took the most, with 90.

Busiest counties: Dublin (1,300), Cork (141), Kildare (88).

Who took them

The 15 employers issued the most permits in February

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

#EmployerCountyFebMonth beforeFeb 20212022 to date
1Google Ireland LimitedDublin903113121
2Amazon Development Centre Ireland LimitedDublin5819677
3Ernst & Young49481797
4Accenture LimitedDublin37201157
5Deloitte Ireland LLP3516151
6Microsoft Ireland Operations LimitedDublin3112343
7Amazon Web Services EMEA SARLDublin2711938
8Anglo Beef Processors IrelandLouth2627953
9St. Vincent's Healthcare GroupDublin26121038
10TikTok Technology LimitedDublin2419643
11Tiernaneill Mushrooms LimitedMonaghan230023
12Amazon Data Services Ireland LimitedDublin2210232
13LM Ericsson LimitedDublin2211233
14Cognizant Technology Solutions Ireland LimitedDublin2133654
15Facebook Ireland Limited1910829

New to permits

181 employers took their first ever permit in February

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

EmployerCountyPermits
PQE Technology LimitedMonaghan8
John Loughnane Sons Joinery Works Limited6
Mel Building Services LimitedDublin6
B-Pods (Ireland) LimitedMayo4
DevEire LtdTipperary3
Intive LtdDublin3
O'Dwyer Transport and Warehousing Ltd3
Thistlemill LtdCork3
ABC Restaurant LimitedDublin2
Bonaventura Clonmel LimitedWexford2

Where

Permits by county in February

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

Dublin (437 employers)
1,300
Cork (65 employers)
141
Kildare (26 employers)
88
Limerick (31 employers)
85
Galway (22 employers)
60
Louth (7 employers)
37
Mayo (14 employers)
33
Meath (13 employers)
32
Monaghan (2 employers)
31
Cavan (8 employers)
28

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.