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Skilled trades jobs in Chicago, IL
The newest live skilled trades openings in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area, from employer career sites and job boards. Each employer's name shows once you sign in.
- Live openings
- More than 1,000
- Matching this page's search
- Median advertised pay
- $61,880
- From 1,170 postings with pay
Figures as of .
More than 1,000 live openings match. The 10 newest are listed below with employer names hidden.
Postings that list pay advertise a median of $61,880 a year, from 1,170 postings with pay as of November 5, 2026.
Newest openings
Live openings from employer career sites and job boards, as of November 5, 2026. Pay is yearly, or as the posting words it when we could not read its figures.
| Job | Location | Pay | Posted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laborer Construction | Glencoe, IL | $36,088 to $40,144 a year | November 5, 2026 |
| Trailer/PM Mechanic | Harvey, IL | $53,872 to $74,152 a year | November 5, 2026 |
| Flooring Installer | Chicago, Illinois | Not listed | November 5, 2026 |
| Construction Scheduler | Chicago, IL | Not listed | November 5, 2026 |
| General Service Technician | Bolingbrook, Illinois | $31,200 to $31,699 a year | November 5, 2026 |
| Senior Mechatronics & Robotics Technician | Chicago, IL | $70,013 to $82,368 a year | November 5, 2026 |
| Collision Estimator | IL Batavia - 114052 | $60,000 to $180,000 a year | November 5, 2026 |
| Entry Level Commercial Refrigeration Technician HVAC-R | Merrillville, IN | Not listed | November 5, 2026 |
| Senior Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor - Data Center Construction | Aurora | $135,000 to $165,000 a year | November 5, 2026 |
| Senior Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor - Data Center Construction | Naperville, IL | $135,000 to $165,000 a year | November 5, 2026 |
More skilled trades jobs
Other skilled trades pages, with the live postings each counted as of November 5, 2026.
| Where | Postings |
|---|---|
| Across the US | 178,825 |
| Remote | 1,922 |
| Dallas, TX | 5,543 |
| Houston, TX | 4,881 |
| Atlanta, GA | 3,822 |
| New York, NY | 3,514 |
| Phoenix, AZ | 3,338 |
| Washington, DC | 3,013 |
| Los Angeles, CA | 2,893 |
| Philadelphia, PA | 2,314 |
| Miami, FL | 2,283 |
Other jobs in Chicago, IL
Other role families with a page here, with the live postings each counted as of November 5, 2026.
| Role family | Postings |
|---|---|
| Healthcare | 13,798 |
| Retail | 13,795 |
| Food and hospitality | 12,519 |
| Sales | 4,846 |
| Finance | 4,807 |
| Operations | 4,579 |
| Engineering | 3,995 |
| Education | 3,463 |
| Warehouse and logistics | 3,080 |
| Manufacturing and production | 2,407 |
| Facilities and maintenance | 2,067 |
| Transportation and driving | 1,967 |
| Customer support | 1,860 |
| Marketing | 1,620 |
| Administrative | 1,542 |
| HR and recruiting | 1,269 |
| IT support | 1,001 |
| Project management | 904 |
| Legal | 882 |
| Backend | 832 |
| Data | 799 |
| Product and design | 611 |
| Security | 361 |
| Full stack | 223 |
| DevOps | 196 |
| QA | 106 |
| Machine learning | 95 |