IBPS PO, IBPS Clerk and IBPS SO Vacancy: A comparative analysis of vacancies in 2018, 2019 and 2020

By Amrit Gouda|Updated : April 2nd, 2021

Every year Institute of Banking & Personnel Selection(IBPS) releases thousands of vacancies for various positions like Probationary Officer, Clerk, Specialist Officers. IBPS PO, IBPS CLERK and IBPS SO are considered to be the most sought-after jobs in the banking sector of our country. Lakhs of candidates apply for these exams. So students must be eager to know the expected number of vacancies for this year's IBPS PO, IBPS CLERK and IBPS SO. In this article we are going to provide you an overview of vacancy trends in IBPS PO, IBPS CLERK and IBPS SO over the years.

IBPS PO VACANCY TREND 

At first, we are going to discuss the IBPS PO vacancy trend over the years and what could be the expected upcoming vacancies for IBPS PO 2021-2022 season. So let's have a look at the below table.

YEARNO. OF VACANCIES
20184252
20194336
20204799

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS:

From the above table, we can clearly observe an upward trend in the IBPS PO VACANCY over the past years. So this can be a clear indication of a good no of vacancies in the upcoming season of IBPS PO.

So now let's quickly move towards the trend analysis of IBPS CLERK VACANCY.

IBPS CLERK VACANCY TREND

Every year a lakhs of candidates appear for IBPS CLERK exam. So a good student might have a question in his/her mind regarding the past year vacancy trends and expected no of vacancies for IBPS CLERK 2021-2022 season.

YEARNO. OF VACANCIES
20187275
201912075
20202557

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS:

From the above table, we can observe that the no of vacancies has neither upward nor downward trend. It is showing random trend. But it can not be denied that, last year the IBPS CLERK vacancy was quite less as compared to the past years. The most probable reason could be COVID 19 pandemic. So this year hopefully we can expected a good no of vacancies. So we have to pull up our socks and keep preparaing.

IBPS SO VACANCY TREND

IBPS SO is a post for specialist officer in various departments like IT, Agriculture, Human resource, Law etc. So it is also one of the reputed post for students aspiring a job in banking sector. So let's quickly analyse the IBPS SO VACANCY trend.

YEARNO. OF VACANCIES
20181599
20191163
2020720

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS:

Here we can see a clear downward trend. The most logical reason could be COVID 19 pandemic. But hopefully we will get a higher number of vacancies this year. So keep continuing your preparation.

Kindly note that the vacancies mentioned throughout the above tables are the official notification vacancies. But almost every time IBPS selected higher number of candidates during the final allotment.

So we will suggest you to keep an eye on the upcoming banking exams like IBPS PO, IBPS CLERK and IBPS SO and start preparing as soon as possible.

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FAQs

  • The reason could be the amalgamation of PSBs or the past year COVID 19 pandemic.

  • As per the past year trends we can expect around 6000-7000 vacancies this year.

  • As per the past year year trend analysis, we can observe that in 2019 there were around 12k vacancies for IBPS CLERK. but in 2020 there were less no of vacancies due to pandemic.

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