Where all the new jobs will be in Queensland by 2022

However, despite that boom, the proportion of the workforce with qualifications in sociology was projected to grow by the largest rate, followed by those with creative arts qualifications.

At the same time, the proportion of those with degrees in education was expected to fall over the five years to 2022.

Management and commerce were projected to remain the largest field of education in 2022, followed by health.

Bachelor-qualified workers were projected to make up more than one-third of all new qualifications.

The Anticipating Future Skills: Jobs growth and alternative future for Queensland to 2022 report showed female-dominated industries were projected to grow at a faster rate than those that employed a majority of men.

However, industries that traditionally employed younger workers, such as retail and food services, were expected to experience below-average growth.

The numbers of workers gaining science, technology, engineering and maths qualifications would not increase as quickly as other fields of education.

Economic reforms in the 1980s and 1990s, which included increased international competition, led to increases in employment in services industries, while work in traditional sectors, such as agriculture, forestry, fishing and manufacturing, declined.

The report said technological advances, including automation, artificial intelligence and digital disruption, would lead to the creation of new jobs, the restructuring of many others and the disappearance of some.

Under all scenarios modelled, jobs in mining and information media and telecommunications were predicted to fall.

Jobs in agriculture, forestry and fishing were also projected to expand, due in part to recovery from Tropical Cyclone Debbie.

Employment Minister Shannon Fentiman said the Queensland workforce was experiencing a technological revolution.

“But it’s not just technology that will have an impact on our labour market, of course, it’s an ageing population, it’s interstate migration and it’s how our resources sector will fare into the future as well,” she said.

“No matter what scenario [Jobs Queensland] looked at, our workforce will continue to grow but it will mean we’ll need to invest in our skills and training to make sure that young Queenslanders can fill these jobs of tomorrow.

“It’s really low-skilled jobs that may transition, which is why it’s so important in the future we get people trained up.”

Under a baseline scenario, which used the 2017-18 budget predictions and other government data, about 75 per cent of growth in employment was projected to occur in south-east Queensland.

A scenario that reduced the price of iron ore, coking coal and thermal coal by 50 per cent from their projected baseline values meant employment would be 0.4 per cent lower than projected in the 2022 baseline, but it was still higher compared with 2017.

There would be 9500 fewer jobs than the baseline prediction, and it would lead to a fall in company profits, business investment, government revenue and household consumption, while the exchange rate would also fall.

However, some sectors, such as tourism and agriculture, would benefit from the lower exchange rate, the report said.

LNP industrial relations spokesman Jarrod Bleijie said the government had to do something because Queensland’s economy was one of the “worst of the worst”, but he described the report as a stunt.

“We used to be battling it out with South Australia and Tasmania and now the latest CommSec report puts us at the absolute bottom,” he said.