Top Companies 2022: The 25 best workplaces to grow your career in Australia

LinkedIn Top Companies is a ranking of the 25 companies that are investing in their talent and helping people build careers that will set them up for long-term success.

The world of work continues to transform in front of our eyes. As professionals moved jobs at unprecedented rates in 2021, companies have had to step up to attract and retain talent — from offering more opportunities to get promoted and gain new skills to increasing flexibility. These changes have put employees and job seekers in the driver’s seat, igniting them to rethink what they expect out of an employer today.

Our 2022 LinkedIn Top Companies list is the 6th annual ranking of the 25 best workplaces to grow your career, all based on unique LinkedIn data. These are the companies that are offering stability in our ever-changing world of work?—?the ones that are not only attracting employees, but retaining them.?

To put together this year’s rankings, we looked at LinkedIn data across seven pillars, each revealing an important element of career progression: ability to advance, skills growth, company stability, external opportunity, company affinity, gender diversity and spread of educational backgrounds. You can learn more about our methodology at the bottom of this article.?

This list is meant to be a resource for you, guiding professionals at every stage — whether that means a career pivot, jumping back into the workforce after a hiatus or investing in new skills. As part of each company listing, you’ll find insights around which roles and skills are in demand, top locations and much more. You can also explore open jobs (many of which are remote positions) and people you may know at the company. If a company catches your eye, follow their LinkedIn page and/or turn on job alerts to stay on top of future opportunities.?

Here are this year’s 25 #LinkedInTopCompanies in Australia.

Commonwealth Bank is the parent company of Bankwest, Colonial First State, Comminsure and others. ?

Australia headcount: 48,000 | Global headcount: 50,000 | Top Australia locations: Sydney, Melbourne, Perth | Most notable skills: Banking, Retail Banking, Mortgage Lending | Most common job titles: Customer Service Specialist, Senior Business Analyst, Lending Specialist | Largest job functions: Finance, Support, Engineering | What you should know: Commonwealth Bank is keeping itself at the forefront of new technology, with big investments particularly in artificial intelligence. It has invested in Silicon Valley tech firm H20.ai and plans to establish a technology hub at the new Entrepreneur and Innovation Centre at Lot Fourteen in Adelaide. To support workers during 2021, CBA offered an additional 10 days’ special pandemic leave as well as paid leave for vaccinations. The bank also has publicly announced goals around diversity and inclusion – which includes 47%-50% gender equality in executive manager and above roles by 2025.

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Woolworths Group is the parent company of Woolworths Supermarkets, Big W, WooliesX and others.

Australia headcount: 170,000 | Global headcount: 189,000 | Top Australia locations: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane | Most notable skills: Supermarkets, Rostering, Customer Service | Most common job titles: Customer Service Representative, Personal Shopper, Retail Assistant | Largest job functions: Support, Operations, Sales | What you should know: Woolworths Group is set for a big 2022 following a major investment in a new third-party online marketplace offering, with hopes of competing with eBay and Amazon. Woolworths is also expanding its online grocery offering, with a new robotic warehouse in Sydney under construction, showing the retailer’s commitment to digital expansion and new technologies in fulfilment.

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NAB is the parent company of Bank of New Zealand.

Australia headcount: 32,000 | Global headcount: 34,209* | Top Australia locations: Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane | Most notable skills: Banking, Mortgage Lending, Retail Banking | Most common job titles: Business Banking Manager, Senior Business Analyst, Customer Advisor | Largest job functions: Finance, Engineering, Information Technology | What you should know: NAB is looking to fill 1,500 technology roles across the business in 2022. The bank is looking to build a pipeline for tech talent, by bringing on board 500 interns and reskilling workers from different careers for in-demand roles. For the first time, the bank is also onboarding a group of neurodiverse individuals for a new pilot program.

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Westpac Group is the parent company of St George Bank, Bank SA and Bank of Melbourne.

Australia headcount: 38,747 | Global headcount: 33,969* | Top Australia locations: Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide | Most notable skills: Banking, Mortgage Lending, Retail Banking | Most common job titles: Senior Business Analyst, Senior Project Manager, Business Analyst | Largest job functions: Finance, Research, Program and Project Management | What you should know: Westpac is preparing for a lower emissions economy by upskilling 800 team members across Australia in environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. Westpac has also extended paid maternity leave from 13 weeks to 16 weeks, and included additional special paid parental leave entitlements for premature births.?

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Australia headcount: 23,230* | Global headcount: 28000 | Top Australia locations: Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane | Most notable skills: Banking, Mortgage Lending, Retail Banking | Most common job titles: Product Owner, Banking Advisor, Personal Banker | Largest job functions: Finance, Engineering, Information Technology | What you should know: ANZ has embraced a workforce looking for more flexible options, providing team members with the option to work parts of their week from the office, home, on the road or wherever they are comfortable and able to work. That includes remote onboarding for graduates during the pandemic, and establishing online communities within their workforce such as a pride network and people-leader guidance groups.??

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Australia headcount: 23,000 | Global headcount: 27,000 | Top Australia locations: Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane | Most notable skills: Telecommunications, Leadership Accountability, Self Assessment Most common job titles: Product Owner, Sales Consultant, Project Manager | Largest job functions: Information Technology, Sales, Engineering | What you should know: Telstra has built its vision of a hybrid workplace of the future with the company’s new Adelaide offices. The offices aim to be a place team members can get together for meetings, training and other activities rather than the traditional 9am-5pm work model. Across the country, Telstra seeks to make sure geography is no barrier to entry, onboarding talent from anywhere in Australia as part of its flexible working model.?

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WPP is the parent company of Ogilvy, Mindshare, Wavemaker, GroupM and others.?

Australia headcount: 3,607* | Global headcount: 109,000 | Top Australia locations: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane | Most notable skills: Media Planning, Media Buying, Programmatic Media Buying, Advertising | Most common job titles: Account Manager, Accounts Payable Officer, Strategic Partner | Largest job functions: Business Development, Accounting, Information Technology | What you should know: WPP, through its subsidiaries, is striving to “make advertising better”, both to support clients and attract the best talent. GroupM chief executive Aimee Buchanan said, “Ultimately, if we’re not making things here better for our people, I’m not doing my job and we won’t have the best talent.” For this initiative, workers are encouraged to define what their working day looks like, with flexibility around where they work, with time-out factored for wellness programs or school pick-up, and expanded parental leave policies.

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Salesforce is the parent company of Tableau, Mulesoft, Slack and others.

Australia headcount: 2,465 | Global headcount: 74,251 | Top Australia locations: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane | Most notable skills: Solution Selling, Salesforce.com Consulting, Enterprise Software, Salesforce Marketing Cloud | Most common job titles: Account Executive, Solutions Engineer, Enterprise Account Executive | Largest job functions: Sales, Engineering, Business Development | What you should know: Salesforce has committed to supporting a changing working landscape by offering new benefits. The new conditions include things like claiming home gym equipment as a wellness expense, introducing a $100-per-day allowance for emergency back-up childcare, and a $50,000 package for transgender workers to accommodate gender affirmation surgeries, prescription drugs, therapies and other allowances to ease the financial and time burden associated with new gender identities.

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Australia headcount: 7,000 | Global headcount: 130,000 | Top Australia locations: Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide | Most notable skills: Stakeholder Management, IT Outsourcing, Microsoft Azure | Most common job titles: Solutions Architect, Senior Technical Consultant, Senior Project Manager | Largest job functions: Information Technology, Engineering, Program and Project Management | What you should know: DXC Technology places a strong focus on graduate positions, hiring more than 130 graduates in 2022. The well-established graduate program runs for 12 months, includes self-paced training and development courses and full-time employment at associate level upon completion. Further to the company’s investment in the future workforce, DXC has collaborated with Western Sydney University to launch the student “Innovating Human Identity” challenge, seeking to develop ideas around the future of digital identities in respect to biometrics and artificial intelligence.

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Alphabet is the parent company of Google and others.?

Australia headcount: 2,000 | Global headcount: 163,000 | Top Australia locations: Sydney, Melbourne | Most notable skills: YouTube, Site Reliability Engineering, Adobe Premiere Pro | Most common job titles: Software Engineer, Content Creator, Founder | Largest job functions: Engineering, Business Development, Media and Communication, Information Technology, Sales | What you should know: Google parent company Alphabet is investing in an Australian research hub as part of a $1bn Digital Future Initiative to increase cloud capacity and partnerships with local organisations. The initiative seeks to address local issues specifically, such as improving monitoring of native Australian sea life with the CSIRO, and will support 6,000 new jobs directly and up to 28,000 indirectly over the next five years.

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Australia headcount: 4,100 | Global headcount: 556,000 | Top Australia locations: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane | Most notable skills: PL/SQL, Requirements Analysis, Amazon Web Services (AWS) | Most common job titles: Information Technology Analyst, Business Analyst, Solutions Architect | Largest job functions: Information Technology, Engineering, Program and Project Management?

See jobs at Tata Consultancy Services | See people you may know at Tata Consultancy Services

Australia headcount: 11,500 | Global headcount: 380,000 | Top Australia locations: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane | Most notable skills: Management Consulting, External Audit, Stakeholder Management | Most common job titles: Audit Analyst, Personal Assistant, Audit Manager | Largest job functions: Finance, Information Technology, Accounting

See jobs at Deloitte | See people you may know at Deloitte

Australia headcount: 2,617* | Global headcount: 6,433 | Top Australia locations: Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide | Most notable skills: Kotlin, Typescript, Amazon Dynamodb | Most common job titles: Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Engineering Manager | Largest job functions: Engineering, Information Technology, Product Management

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Australia headcount: 5,500 | Global headcount: 150,000+ | Top Australia locations: Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne | Most notable skills: Insurance, General Insurance, Workers Compensation | Most common job titles: Customer Service Specialist, Case Manager, Claims Consultant | Largest job functions: Finance, Support, Community and Social Services

See jobs at Allianz | See people you may know at Allianz

Australia headcount: 1,460 | Global headcount: 401,300 | Top Australia locations: Melbourne, Sydney, Perth | Most notable skills: Continuous Improvement, Engineering, Data Analysis | Most common job titles: System Engineer, Key Account Manager, Finance Manager | Largest job functions: Information Technology, Engineering, Sales

See jobs at Bosch | See people you may know at Bosch

Australia headcount: 7,000 | Global headcount: 30,011* | Top Australia locations: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane | Most notable skills: Telecommunications, Retail Sales, Telco, Customer Experience | Most common job titles: Salesperson, Sales Consultant, Technical Specialist, Network Engineer | Largest job functions: Sales, Information Technology, Engineering

See jobs at Optus | See people you may know at Optus

Australia headcount: 9,277 | Global headcount: 295,000 | Top Australia locations: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane | Most notable skills: Alteryx, External Audit, Microsoft Power BI | Most common job titles: Executive Assistant, Assurance Associate, Senior Accountant, Assurance Specialist | Largest job functions: Accounting, Finance, Information Technology?

See jobs at PwC | See people you may know at PwC

Australia headcount: 3,872* | Global headcount: 63,600 | Top Australia locations: Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane | Most notable skills: Shutdown, Refinery Operations, Oil & Gas | Most common job titles: Customer Service Representative, Console Operator, Process Control Technician | Largest job functions: Support, Operations, Sales

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Australia headcount: 22,000 | Global headcount: 22,000 | Top Australia locations: Melbourne, Victoria, Sydney | Most notable skills: Nursing, Healthcare, Electronic Medical Record (EMR) | Most common job titles: Registered Nurse, Nursing Manager, Administrative Assistant | Largest job functions: Healthcare Services, Research, Administration

See more about Monash Health | See people you may know at Monash Health

APAC headcount: 58,953 | Global headcount: 312,250 | Top Australia locations: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane | Most notable skills: External Audit, Assurance, Management Consulting | Most common job titles: Assurance Associate, Executive Assistant, Cyber Security Consultant | Largest job functions: Accounting, Finance, Information Technology

See jobs at EY | See people you may know at EY

Australia headcount: 7,289* | Global headcount: 674,000 | Top Australia locations: Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane | Most notable skills: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Requirement Analysis | Most common job titles: Application Development Analyst, Management Consultant, Managing Director | Largest job functions: Engineering, Information Technology, Business Development

See jobs at Accenture | See people you may know at Accenture

Global headcount: 133,000 | Top Australia locations: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane | Most notable skills: Storage Solutions, Storage Architecture, VMware vSphere | Most common job titles: Account Executive, Account Manager, Technical Support Engineer? | Largest job functions: Sales, Information Technology, Engineering

See jobs at Dell Technologies | See people you may know at Dell Technologies

Australia headcount: 10,918* | Global headcount: 236,000 | Top Australia locations: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane | Most notable skills: Personal Branding, Spreadsheets, Messaging | Most common job titles: Accountant, Senior Personal Assistant, Audit Assurance | Largest job functions: Accounting, Finance, Administration?

See jobs at KPMG | See people you may know at KPMG

Australia headcount: 948* | Global headcount: 72,779 | Top Australia locations: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane | Most notable skills: Equities, Investment banking, Risk Management | Most common job titles: Investment Banking Analyst, Cadet, Managing Director | Largest job functions: Finance, Information Technology, Business Development, Military and Protective Services, Research

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Australia headcount: 2100 | Global headcount: 132000 | Top Australia locations: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane | Most notable skills: Oracle Cloud, Cloud Computing, Software as a Service (SaaS)| Most common job titles: Account Director, Sales Director, Enterprise Account Director | Largest job functions: Sales, Engineering, Information Technology

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You can also check out the Top Companies in Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Philippines, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, the US, the UK and the UAE.

Methodology

Our methodology uses LinkedIn data to rank companies based on seven pillars that have been shown to lead to career progression: ability to advance; skills growth; company stability; external opportunity; company affinity; gender diversity and educational background. Ability to advance tracks employee promotions within a company and when they move to a new company, based on standardised job titles. Skills growth looks at how employees across the company are gaining skills while employed at the company, using standardised LinkedIn skills. Company stability tracks attrition over the past year, as well as the percentage of employees that stay at the company at least three years. External opportunity looks at Recruiter outreach across employees at the company, signaling demand for workers coming from these companies. Company affinity, which seeks to measure how supportive a company’s culture is, looks at connection volume on LinkedIn among employees, controlled for company size. Gender diversity measures gender parity within a company and its subsidiaries. Finally, educational background examines the variety of educational attainment among employees, from no degree up to Ph.D. levels, reflecting a commitment to recruiting a wide range of professionals.?

To be eligible, companies must have had at least 500 employees as of Dec. 31, 2021 in the country and attrition can be no higher than 10% over the methodology time period, based on LinkedIn data. Similarly, companies with layoffs during that time that amount to more than 10% of their workforce, based on public announcements, are also ineligible. Only parent companies rank on the list; majority-owned subsidiaries and data about those subsidiaries are incorporated into the parent company score. Certain data counts — like gender diversity and educational background — are normalised based on company size across the pool of companies eligible for the list.. The methodology time frame is Jan. 1, 2021 through Dec. 31, 2021. All of the data used is aggregated and/or de-identified.

We exclude all staffing and recruiting firms, educational institutions and government agencies. We also exclude LinkedIn, its parent company Microsoft and Microsoft subsidiaries.

Correction: Certain data counts were normalised for company size. The previous version stated that all data counts were normalised for company size.

About company insights

*Company insights were sourced from LinkedIn Talent Insights and include the parent company and majority-owned subsidiaries. Data reflects aggregated public member data from active LinkedIn profiles in the relevant country and includes employee profiles associated with the parent company and majority-owned subsidiaries on LinkedIn. We exclude members who identify as interns or contractors. Headcounts are provided by the companies directly or public filings, unless otherwise noted with an asterisk. Those headcounts are based on LinkedIn data. All insights reflect a 12-month time period looking back from January 2022. Top locations were categorized as the regions or cities that employed the largest percentage of each company. Skills data was derived from measuring the most frequent unique skills among a company’s employees, relative to other companies. Most common job titles represent the occupations that are most common within each company. Largest job function measures the function area most prevalent within each company.?

Reported by: Cathy Anderson, Cayla Dengate, Natalie MacDonald and Capucine Yeomans

Methodology and insights by:?LinkedIn Economic Graph team