UP to 8000 more Victorians have been left jobless as the state's unemployment rate continues to rise.

New Australian Bureau of Statistics figures reveal unemployment in Victoria jumped 0.3 per cent to 5 per cent between December 2010 and December 2011, the Sunday Herald Sun reports.

The state's depressing unemployment was 0.5 per cent below NSW but matched the national average.

Melbourne's outer west, which includes suburbs such as Werribee, Sunshine and Melton, was worst affected, with 6800 more people unemployed - the highest in the state.

Melbourne's northeast, including Diamond Creek and Whittlesea, also showed a spike in job losses with an extra 4700 people joining the unemployment line.

The Gippsland region defied the depressing trend by almost cutting the number unemployed in half from 10,400 to 5800.

The Goulburn and Murray areas also saw a drop in the number of jobless by 1800. Employment in the Barwon and Western district region remained stable.

The jobless surge comes as the Baillieu Government comes under growing pressure to produce a plan to stop an outbreak of sackings, particularly in the manufacturing industry.

A spokeswoman for Treasurer Kim Wells, Kate Walsh, denied Victoria was headed for an unemployment crisis.

"Victoria has the second-lowest unemployment rate in Australia and last year employment increased," she said.