A report from the Regional Australia Institute found 1135 job vacancies in the Riverina Murray region during October, up by 23 per cent compared to the same time period two years ago.

The Riverina Murray region covers numerous local government areas including Wagga, Albury, Coolamon, Griffith, Gundadai, Snowy Valleys, Greater Hume, Lockhart and Junee.

Institute co-chief executive Dr Kim Houghton says new figures showed thousands of professional jobs on offer across regional NSW.

"Despite the fact that many areas in NSW are enduring the worst drought in history, these new figures show there are still some fantastic work prospects," he said.

"Additionally, if you move away from the coast, job vacancy rates are growing, with the Riverina-Murray area increasing by 23 per cent in just two years."

The Dubbo and Western NSW area saw a 10.3 per cent increase, with the Blue Mountains, Bathurst and Central West area recording an 11.3 per cent increase in job vacancies from 2017 to 2019.

The job types with the most vacancies in the Riverina Murray region was medical practitioners and nurses, with 143 roles advertised, followed by automotive and engineering trades workers with 70 roles.

More than 31 per cent of the jobs advertised in the Riverina Murray were for 'professional' roles, which was above the average for Regional NSW at 25 per cent.

About 9 per cent of the roles were for labourers, less than 7 per cent for sales workers and less than 6 per cent for machinery operators.

Committee 4 Wagga think tank chief executive Allan Johnston said the region's job vacancy levels were "encouraging" but the type of jobs in demand were not too different than other areas.

"When you look across all the regions and the top job classifications, they are all reasonably similar with health, professional, clerical and automotive workers being in demand," he said.

"The Riverina Murray is not unique, it;'s just that we have got more job opportunities in our region.

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Mr Johnston said he hoped the state government's incentives to bring more industrial businesses to Wagga would create more entry-level jobs.

"With the special activation precinct and the new digital connectivity making it more inviting for businesses to set up in the area, these sorts of opportunities will increase," he said.

"We do need to have a wide range of job opportunities for varying skill sets as not everyone is a professional or in the medical fraternity.

"Businesses that can employ the numbers like Teys and Laminex having the opportunity to come to Wagga would really make a difference to employment opportunities across a wide range of skill sets."