--- title: "Introducing the Labour Market Pulse: free monthly hiring and salary data from live postings" description: "Free monthly aggregates from the JobsPipe corpus: hiring demand by occupation and industry, advertised-salary percentiles with visible sample sizes, and the AI pay premium." canonical: https://jobspipe.dev/blog/labour-market-pulse date_published: 2026-07-31 date_modified: 2026-07-31 author: Dvir Atias --- # Introducing the Labour Market Pulse: free monthly hiring and salary data from live postings Free monthly aggregates from the JobsPipe corpus: hiring demand by occupation and industry, advertised-salary percentiles with visible sample sizes, and the AI pay premium. Computed from real postings, never surveys - with suppressed thin cells, a published disclosure rate, and permanently archived snapshots you can cite. Today we’re releasing the [Labour Market Pulse](https://jobspipe.dev/pulse): free monthly labour-market aggregates computed from the live JobsPipe postings corpus. Hiring demand by occupation and industry, advertised-salary percentiles, and the pay premium on roles that mention AI tooling - refreshed daily over a rolling 30-day window, downloadable as [CSV](https://jobspipe.dev/pulse/pulse.csv), and free to cite with attribution. ## Postings, not surveys Most salary benchmarks are anchored on government surveys or modeled estimates. The Pulse is computed only from pay ranges that employers state in live job postings. That cuts both ways, and we say so: posted ranges measure _advertised_ pay from disclosing employers, not realized earnings, and only about a quarter of postings across our multi-country corpus state pay at all. So every salary row on the Pulse carries its sample size and a confidence grade, and cells below the minimum sample threshold are suppressed rather than reported. If a number is thin, you’ll know - or you won’t see it. ## What the first snapshot shows From the July 2026 snapshot: Software Developers are the most-demanded occupation at 15.6% of the corpus (19,136 postings in 30 days), with a median advertised salary of $169,745 across 7,246 salary-bearing postings (P25 $134,200, P75 $210,000). The full tables - fifteen occupations, twelve industries, and the AI pay premium per occupation - are on the [Pulse page](https://jobspipe.dev/pulse). ## Archived permanently, verifiably Each monthly snapshot is committed to our public repository, so every figure carries a timestamp anyone can verify, and the trend series grows from July 2026 onward. Use it in research, journalism, or market analysis with attribution to JobsPipe. Need different cuts - a specific title, country, or seniority band? Occupation, industry, skill-trend and AI-exposure breakdowns are available on request - [book a demo](https://jobspipe.dev/book) and we'll walk you through the data. More on the [labour-market insights](https://jobspipe.dev/labour-market) page. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### Is the Labour Market Pulse data free to use? Yes. The Pulse publishes free monthly labour-market aggregates at /pulse, refreshed daily over a rolling 30-day window, downloadable as CSV, and free to cite with attribution to JobsPipe. Each monthly snapshot is committed to a public repository so every figure carries a timestamp anyone can verify, with the trend series growing from July 2026 onward. Different cuts, such as a specific title, country or seniority band, are available on request - book a demo at jobspipe.dev/book and we'll walk you through the data. ### How are the Pulse salary figures calculated? Only from pay ranges that employers state in live job postings, never from government surveys or modeled estimates. That means they measure advertised pay from disclosing employers rather than realized earnings, and only about a quarter of postings across the multi-country corpus state pay at all. Every salary row carries its sample size and a confidence grade, and cells below the minimum sample threshold are suppressed rather than reported. ### What does the Pulse say about software developer salaries? In the July 2026 snapshot Software Developers were the most-demanded occupation at 15.6% of the corpus, with a median advertised salary of $169,745, a P25 of $134,200 and a P75 of $210,000, computed from thousands of salary-bearing postings in a 30-day window. The full tables on the Pulse page cover fifteen occupations, twelve industries and the AI pay premium per occupation. 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