Trade Me sees no immediate end to double-digit growth in the market for jobs listings.

The jobs market is booming, especially in Auckland, according to Trade Me.

The online auction and listings site reported a 14 per cent rise in vacancies advertised on Trade Me Jobs during the last three months of 2014 and it expected growth to continue at a similar level for the foreseeable future.

The official unemployment rate as reported by Statistics New Zealand fell to 5.6 per cent at the end of September from 6.2 per cent a year earlier. The Treasury forecast in December that the unemployment rate would continue descending, dropping to 4.5 per cent by 2018.

Trade Me, along with Australian-owned Seek, dominates the market for online jobs listings.

Vacancies in Auckland rose 20 per cent, year-on-year, between October and December, the company said, with listings in Canterbury up 10 per cent and Wellington up 8 per cent.

There was also strong demand in most other regions with job listings in the Bay of Plenty up 26 per cent, Manawatu and Whanganui up 13 per cent and Otago up 10 per cent. The only blackspots were the West Coast, where listings fell 11 per cent, and Taranaki where they dropped 10 per cent.

Trade Me Jobs head Peter Osborne said 2014 had been a bumper year.

"Industrial sectors like automotive, construction, manufacturing, operations and the trades are all surging, and we've seen a lot more job opportunities created. With New Zealand being in good economic health, retail jobs were also up, and these factors have collectively helped to create a very buoyant job market."

Listings for information technology staff continued their "meteoric rise", climbing 11.6 per cent last year.

Vacancies for "executives and general managers" leapt 84 per cent and there was a 38 per cent rise in listings for construction workers and architects during the final quarter of last year.

However, listings for government and council jobs fell by a third and there was a 10 per cent drop in listings for roles in the banking and insurance sectors.

Osborne forecast the jobs market would achieve double-digit percentage growth "well into 2015", driven in part by a construction boom in Auckland and Christchurch.

"Many of our advertisers have found it difficult to source talent and fill roles," he said.