---
title: "Accountant job postings: what employers ask for (2026)"
description: "**Canonical URL:** https://jobspipe.dev/postings/accountant"
canonical: https://jobspipe.dev/postings/accountant
last_updated: 2026-09-10
---

# Accountant job postings: what employers ask for (2026)

> Live accountant job postings measured from JobsPipe's index: 3.1% remote, 24.4% disclose pay, seniority mix, top skills and the industries hiring. Shares only, reproducible through the API.

**Canonical URL:** https://jobspipe.dev/postings/accountant

This page reads every active posting whose normalized title is Accountant across the ten boards JobsPipe collects and reports what those employers ask for: the seniority they target, whether the role is remote, whether pay is disclosed, the skills named in the text, and the industries, countries and company sizes behind the postings.

3.1% of these postings are marked remote, 24.4% state a salary or range, the most common seniority label is senior at 14.5%. Postings with no seniority label are counted in the denominator, so the seniority shares do not sum to one.

## Headline shares

- **Remote:** 3.1%
- **Pay disclosed:** 24.4%

## Seniority stated in the posting

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| Entry level | 8.1% |
| Mid level | 8.3% |
| Senior | 14.5% |
| Lead or manager | 1.2% |

## Skills named in the text (top twelve)

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| accounting | 50.1% |
| excel | 47.4% |
| communication | 28.8% |
| compliance | 26.0% |
| attention-to-detail | 23.5% |
| tax | 21.5% |
| financial-reporting | 16.6% |
| accounts-payable | 14.6% |
| cpa | 14.2% |
| sap | 13.5% |
| gaap | 12.0% |
| payroll | 11.3% |

## Job function

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| Finance & Accounting | 75.7% |
| Accounting/Auditing and Finance | 15.7% |
| Accounting/Auditing | 3.0% |
| Finance | 2.1% |
| Other | 0.7% |
| Finance and Accounting/Auditing | <0.5% |
| Finance and Sales | <0.5% |

## Employer industry (ISIC division)

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| Employment and staffing | 5.1% |
| Legal and accounting | 3.4% |
| Public administration | 2.9% |
| Software and IT services | 2.5% |
| Financial services | 2.3% |
| Healthcare | 1.4% |
| Retail trade | 1.4% |
| Head offices and consulting | 1.2% |

## Country

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| United States | 18.9% |
| Germany | 15.3% |
| France | 13.6% |
| India | 11.3% |
| Italy | 5.8% |
| Mexico | 4.6% |
| Brazil | 3.9% |
| Canada | 3.5% |

## Employer size, where known

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| 1-50 employees | 8.5% |
| 51-200 employees | 4.5% |
| 201-1000 employees | 4.9% |
| 1000+ employees | 12.4% |

## Employment type

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| Full-time | 83.5% |
| Part-time | 3.7% |
| Contract | 1.1% |

## Method

Denominator: active postings on the ten collected boards, grouped by canonical title (deduplicated by posting id). Counted on 2026-09-09. Postings are deduplicated by id, filtered to those not yet recorded as closed, and grouped on the field named in each heading. Only shares are published.

Reproduce the underlying rows:

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.jobspipe.dev/v1/jobs/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $JOBSPIPE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"status":"active","limit":25,"job_title_or":["accountant"]}'
```

## FAQ

### What share of accountant job postings are remote?

3.1% of the active postings on this page carry a remote flag. The flag is read from the posting itself, so hybrid roles that never say remote are counted as on-site. Filter the API with remote set to true and the same scope to reproduce the figure.

### How many accountant postings disclose salary?

24.4% state a salary or a range in the posting text or structured fields. Disclosure varies more by board and by jurisdiction than by role, so compare the figure with the board-level shares on the sources pages before reading it as a market signal.

### Which skills appear most in accountant postings?

The most named skills are accounting (50.1%), excel (47.4%), communication (28.8%), compliance (26.0%), attention-to-detail (23.5%). Skills are extracted from the posting text against a curated lexicon, and a posting counts once per skill it names, so the shares overlap.

### Which industries hire the most accountant roles?

By ISIC division, the largest shares are Employment and staffing (5.1%), Legal and accounting (3.4%), Public administration (2.9%). Industry is resolved from the employer's classification where known, and postings without a classification are excluded from this cut.

### Which functions are employers in Accountant hiring for?

The largest functions by share of postings are Finance & Accounting (75.7%), Accounting/Auditing and Finance (15.7%), Accounting/Auditing (3.0%), Finance (2.1%). Function is assigned from the normalized title and the posting text.

### Where do these numbers come from?

From JobsPipe's live index of postings on the ten boards it collects, deduplicated by posting id and counted on 2026-09-09. Only shares are published; the underlying counts stay private. Every figure can be reproduced against the JobsPipe API with the filters shown on this page.

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