Job Market Pulse
Job Market Pulse — October 2026
Data retrieved October 1, 2026 UTC · fifth edition
A dated snapshot of the job postings dataset behind the API — read first-party from 13 applicant tracking systems, normalized into one schema. Active postings rebounded to 264,049 (+19,986 vs September), reversing three consecutive months of decline; hiring companies reached 26,158 (+6,581 vs September). Remote share fell 1.7 percentage points to 22.2%; salary disclosure slipped 1.5pp to 32.8%. Free to read, free to cite.
The numbers
Active postings
264,049
+19,986 vs September
Hiring companies
26,158
+6,581 vs September
Salary disclosed
32.8%
−1.4pp vs September
Remote share
22.2%
−1.7pp vs September
Where the jobs are
The eight largest role categories by active postings, each a queryable filter on the API.
| Category | Active postings | Remote |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineering | 31,011 | 34.3% |
| Healthcare | 26,380 | 8.5% |
| Business & Operations | 25,461 | 25.7% |
| Sales & Account Management | 20,068 | 39.7% |
| Skilled Trades & Field Roles | 18,438 | 5.5% |
| Hospitality & Retail | 13,244 | 3.2% |
| Finance, Legal & Compliance | 12,988 | 27.9% |
| Engineering (Non-Software) | 9,490 | 18.6% |
The top eight categories hold 157,080 postings — 59.5% of all 264,049 active listings. Software Engineering leads at 31,011 postings, 11.7% of the total, up 745 from September's 30,266. Healthcare gained 3,616 month over month to 26,380, and Business & Operations added 3,549 to reach 25,461 — the two largest absolute category gains this period.
Remote availability continues to split sharply by role type. Sales & Account Management (39.7%) and Software Engineering (34.3%) run well above the dataset-wide 22.2% remote share, while Hospitality & Retail (3.2%) and Skilled Trades & Field Roles (5.5%) remain nearly entirely on-site.
Top 10 countries: United States (123,452) · United Kingdom (21,237) · France (11,207) · Germany (10,937) · Canada (10,384) · India (6,916) · The Netherlands (5,436) · Australia (4,048) · Spain (3,557) · Brazil (3,120)
France climbed from fifth (8,591) to third (11,207), overtaking both Germany (10,937) and Canada (10,384). Spain re-entered the top 10 at ninth (3,557), replacing Sweden which had entered last month. The United States added 4,529 postings month over month to 123,452.
Remote work
22.2% of active postings are marked remote, down 1.7 percentage points from September's 23.9%. The figure is derived from the structured location resolved on each posting rather than from free-text title matching. A posting only counts as remote when its resolved location says so, making this a floor on real remote availability — what employers actually declare.
The category breakdown in the table above continues to show the same structural pattern: remote share concentrates in knowledge-work roles (Software Engineering at 34.3%, Sales & Account Management at 39.7%) and stays near zero in location-dependent categories. The dataset-wide rate reflects that mix rather than a uniform shift across all role types.
Pay transparency
32.8% of active postings disclose a salary, down 1.5 percentage points from September's 34.2%. The figure reflects only what employers actually publish — salary is never inferred or estimated — so it is a floor on real pay transparency, not a model of it.
This is a single dataset-wide rate. The breakdown does not carry disclosure per category, so this edition reports the global number only and makes no per-category claim. The rate has now retreated to its June–July level after two months at a higher plateau, returning to the 32–33% band observed at the start of the series.
Method & citation
- Computed directly from the live Job Listings API dataset — the same records the API returns.
- Counts cover a rolling 21-day active window; postings older than that drop out.
- Read first-party from 13 applicant tracking systems, never scraped from aggregators.
- LinkedIn is not a source and is not included in any figure here.
- Salary disclosure reflects what employers actually post — salary is never inferred or estimated.
- Remote share is derived from the structured location resolved on each posting.
- Figures are a one-time snapshot retrieved October 1, 2026 UTC; they are not refreshed after publication.
Cite this report
Journalists and researchers: cite freely with a link.
Job Listings API — Job Market Pulse, October 2026. https://joblistingsapi.com/stats/reports/october-2026