The article presents an analysis of the prerequisites for labour mobility of educators of regional universities, which, from the author’s point of view are in many ways related to the intensification of the precarious employment. The review of scientific works in this field of research is carried out; the actual directions of studying labour mobility of educators are outlined. The purpose of the study is to consider the prerequisites for labour mobility of educators, which is caused by transformations in the system of labour relations with the university, intensifying precarious employment of the educators, as well as o assess its possible consequences for regions and universities. The research methods used in writing the article are based on the analysis, synthesis and generalization of scientific literature on labour mobility of the population and university professors in particular, grouping and analyzing the results of research on the economics of higher education. It analyzes how the situation in the system of higher education is superimposed on the capacity of regional universities, as well as the educators in which they work. It is shown that the rigid requirements to the staff lead to a decrease in their interest in working at their institution. On the contrary, some universities are trying to change traditional ideas about the feasibility of academic inbreeding, introduce new approaches to the selection of educators from the external market. At the junction of the identified trends, contradictions are growing in the interests of the labour subjects operating in the labour market of the higher education system. As a result, acute, and their desire for labour mobility is increasing.