The aim of the article is to diagnose the future demand for labor, in term of sections and occupations, the most likely to occur, in an exemplary labor market of Podlaskie Voivodeship, in the context of the level of economic development and global trends. An example for the analysis was a region statistically classified as underdeveloped. Both, the level of economic development and the identified global trends strongly determine the demand for specific categories of employees. Generally, territories in the process of development experience structural changes at the level of the basic sectors of the economy. Labor resources are migrating from the agricultural sector to the industry and services sector. A number of factors influence the differences in the level and pace of these changes. The fact that economies are subject to the influence of certain phenomena on a global scale, simultaneous observation of what is happening in the economies of more developed territories allow to predict changes awaiting labor markets of less developed economies in terms of future labor demand.