According to new data job vacancies in the UK have surpassed pre-pandemic levels.
The Office for National Statistics said there were 862,000 jobs on offer between April and June, 77,500 higher than the first three months of 2020.
The rise in vacancies is mainly in hospitality and retail.
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There has also been a big rise in people on payroll.
It increased by 356,000 in June to 28.9 million which is the biggest leap since the start of the pandemic and the biggest increase since records began in 2014.
The main increase in payroll came in the food and accommodation sectors after hospitality venues were allowed to re-open in May.
The unemployment rate also dropped to 4.8% between March and May, against 5% from December to February, in line with a revised figure of 4.8% for the three months to April.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak cheered a recovering economy and jobs market.
He said: "We are bouncing back - the number of employees on payrolls is at its highest level since last April and the number of people on furlough halved in the three months to May."
However, the Office for National Statistics said that despite the increases over the last seven months the number of people on payroll has fallen by 206,000 since the start of the pandemic.
Darren Morgan, ONS director of economic statistics, said: "The labour market is continuing to recover, with the number of employees on payroll up again strongly in June.
"The number of job vacancies continued to rise very strongly.
"The biggest sector driving this was hospitality, followed by wholesaling and retailing.
"As the economy gradually reopened, the unemployment rate fell in March to May. This was especially marked for younger people, who had been hardest hit by earlier lockdowns."
Despite the improvements in the jobs market, experts are predicting unemployment rates to rise once the furlough support scheme comes to an end in September, although this is set to be far less than initially feared.
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