--- title: "Job market report October 2026: hiring from live job postings" description: "Openings are concentrated: 70.0% of live postings belong to the 7.5% of employers with ten or more open roles, while 57.9% of hiring employers have exactly one." canonical: https://jobspipe.dev/blog/job-market-report date_published: 2026-10-11 date_modified: 2026-10-11 author: Dvir Atias --- # Job market report, October 2026: what millions of live job postings say about hiring right now Openings are concentrated: 70.0% of live postings belong to the 7.5% of employers with ten or more open roles, while 57.9% of hiring employers have exactly one. Career-site postings close in a median of 22 days, 23.6% of postings state pay, and 38.3% of postings with a seniority are entry level. A monthly read of the job market from live postings rather than surveys. 70.0% of open postings sit at the 7.5% of employers hiring ten or more roles at once, 57.9% of employers have a single opening, and postings on company career sites close in a median of 22 days. The job market in October 2026, read from millions of live postings across 30+ sources: openings are concentrated in a small group of large employers, most employers that are hiring have exactly one role open, and postings on company career sites close in a median of 22 days. 70.0% of open postings belong to the 7.5% of employers with ten or more roles open at once, while 57.9% of hiring employers have a single opening. This report is published monthly. It is built from postings, not surveys, and every figure is a share so that it reads the same as the index grows. 70.0% Postings at employers with 10+ openings 7.5% of employers 57.9% Employers with one opening of employers hiring 22 Median days to close company career sites 23.6% Postings that state pay all markets ## Hiring is concentrated 40.7% of open postings sit at employers with 100 or more live roles. For a job seeker that means most listings come from a short list of very large employers; for anyone using postings as a signal it means a single employer’s requisition habits can move an occupation’s numbers. | Market | Postings at 10+ opening employers | Employers with one opening | Postings at 100+ opening employers | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | United States | 58.7% | 59.0% | 24.0% | | United Kingdom | 49.1% | 63.3% | 9.6% | | Canada | 43.3% | 65.8% | 11.9% | | Germany | 41.5% | 52.5% | 7.3% | | France | 46.7% | 65.1% | 12.1% | | Netherlands | 51.0% | 58.1% | 14.1% | | Australia | 62.0% | 66.3% | 26.7% | | India | 28.3% | 63.4% | 4.3% | | Singapore | 42.2% | 58.6% | 12.3% | ## How fast postings close On company career sites, where a posting closes when the employer closes the requisition, the median posting that closed in the last 60 days was live for 22 days and three in four closed within 42. 12.3% closed within a week and 59.0% within a month. Aggregators expire postings on a timer, so their lifespans measure the board’s rules more than the hire; [job posting lifespan](https://jobspipe.dev/job-posting-lifespan) has the board-by-board picture. ## Who is hiring - Software Developers5.4% - Sales and Marketing Managers4.6% - Shop Sales Assistants2.9% - Advertising and Marketing Professionals2.9% - Business Services and Administration Managers Not Elsewhere Classified2.5% - Commercial Sales Representatives2.5% - Nursing Professionals2.5% - Accountants2.0% - Management and Organization Analysts1.6% - Finance Managers1.6% Share of live postings with an occupation code, top ten ISCO-08 unit groups, October 2026. ## Pay disclosure and seniority by market | Market | Postings that state pay | Entry level | Senior or above | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | United States | 42.8% | 35.8% | 42.6% | | United Kingdom | 37.1% | 28.3% | 51.0% | | Canada | 36.1% | 37.4% | 40.1% | | Germany | 5.7% | 35.2% | 30.9% | | France | 14.8% | 43.6% | 28.2% | | Netherlands | 17.0% | 36.5% | 36.1% | | Australia | 19.8% | 29.8% | 50.6% | | India | <0.5% | 31.9% | 58.4% | | Singapore | 4.8% | 26.3% | 56.8% | | All markets | 23.6% | 38.3% | 40.6% | In the United States 42.8% of postings state pay, with the highest shares in the states that require it, covered in the pay transparency study below. Markets where boards rarely carry a structured salary field show far lower shares. ## This month’s studies - [Ghost Job Index](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/ghost-job-index): 9.5% of active postings have been up 45+ days, and career-site postings at the largest employers are 3.8x as likely to be long open as those at the smallest. - [Pay transparency by state](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/pay-transparency-by-state): 73.3% of postings show a salary where a posting law is established, 44.1% where none applies. - [AI jobs and entry-level hiring](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/ai-jobs-entry-level): 16.4% of AI roles are entry level, but inside tech they are as open to juniors as other roles. For a shorter answer to whether the market is bad, see [is the job market bad right now?](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/is-the-job-market-bad-right-now) ## Reproducing a number with the API Every figure here comes from the same index the search API serves. This counts software developer postings in the US first published in the last week: ``` curl -X POST https://api.jobspipe.dev/v1/jobs/search \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $JOBSPIPE_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "occupation_code_or": ["2512"], "job_country_code_or": ["US"], "posted_at_max_age_days": 7, "status": "active", "include_total_results": true, "limit": 10 }' ``` How this was measured Measured from active postings in the JobsPipe index, each counted once. Generated 2026-10-11. Shares only: JobsPipe publishes percentages, not counts. Employer concentration groups postings by normalized company name. Closure speed uses postings on Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday, SmartRecruiters, Teamtailor, Recruitee, Personio that closed in the 60 days before the snapshot, measured from first sighting. This is the first edition on this method; month-on-month comparisons start with the next. Use this data Free to cite, chart and republish with a link back. Download the full table as [CSV](https://jobspipe.dev/data/job-market-report.csv). Suggested citation: JobsPipe, “Job market report, October 2026”, October 2026. https://jobspipe.dev/blog/job-market-report Journalists and researchers: for a cut by state, occupation or company size that is not in the tables, email [dvir@jobspipe.dev](mailto:dvir@jobspipe.dev). ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How concentrated is hiring right now? Very. In October 2026, 70.0% of open postings belonged to the 7.5% of employers with ten or more roles open, and 40.7% to employers with 100 or more. ### How long do job postings stay open? On company career sites the median posting that closed in the last 60 days was live for 22 days, and 59.0% closed within 30 days. Aggregators expire postings on a timer, so their lifespans reflect board rules. ### How often is the job market report updated? Monthly. Each edition uses the same method so the numbers can be compared month to month, starting with the edition after this one. Related ## Keep reading - [Guide · Sep 9, 2026Is the job market bad right now? What live job postings can and cannot tell you](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/is-the-job-market-bad-right-now) - [Reference · Oct 11, 2026Ghost Job Index, October 2026: how many job postings are ghosts, by board, company size and country](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/ghost-job-index) - [Reference · Oct 11, 2026Pay transparency by state, October 2026: how many job postings show a salary where the law requires it](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/pay-transparency-by-state) - [Reference · Oct 11, 2026AI jobs and entry-level hiring, October 2026: only 1 in 6 AI roles is entry level, and tech is the reason](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/ai-jobs-entry-level) - [Reference · Sep 9, 2026In-demand skills in 2026: what live job postings ask for, by function](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/in-demand-skills) --- Try it with no key: `curl -d '{"limit":3}' https://api.jobspipe.dev/v1/sandbox/jobs/search`. 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