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I am not sure, but the only phrase that comes to mind is "X market" as in "janitor market", but I think it may sound odd in certain situation.

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Because the young generation don't want to do labor-intensive work, there was a huge lack of labor in the janitor market, which drove the wage for janitorial work through the roof to the point they earned more than most white-collar workers.

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The job market relates to the entire pool of jobs available. When formally referring to one particular job (or kind of job) use instead "field":

There is a huge demand in the janitorial field

That being said, "field" is normally associated with certain white-collar jobs, but overly formal when talking about blue-collar jobs. Instead I would say something like:

There is a huge demand for janitors.

A group of related jobs can be collectively referred to as a "sector":

There remains high demand for jobs in the technical sector, particularly programmers who have the latest buzzword on their resumes.

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If you want to maintain your sentence as much as possible, I would simply use job market and qualify it with the appropriate adjective:

There was a huge lack of labor in the janitor janitorial job market.

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