Job Market Pulse
Job Market Pulse — September 2026
Data retrieved September 1, 2026 UTC · fourth 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 contracted to 244,063 (−16,290 vs August), the steepest month-over-month decline across four editions; hiring companies edged up to 19,577 (+285 vs August). Remote share ticked up 0.3 percentage points to 23.9%; salary disclosure slipped 0.1pp to 34.2%, holding near its August high. Free to read, free to cite.
The numbers
Active postings
244,063
−16,290 vs August
Hiring companies
19,577
+285 vs August
Salary disclosed
34.2%
−0.1pp vs August
Remote share
23.9%
+0.3pp vs August
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 | 30,266 | 37.4% |
| Healthcare | 22,764 | 9.7% |
| Business & Operations | 21,912 | 26.1% |
| Sales & Account Management | 19,288 | 39.6% |
| Skilled Trades & Field Roles | 16,456 | 4.9% |
| Hospitality & Retail | 12,416 | 3.3% |
| Finance, Legal & Compliance | 11,641 | 30.5% |
| Engineering (Non-Software) | 7,825 | 21.3% |
The top eight categories hold 142,568 postings — 58.4% of all 244,063 active listings. Software Engineering leads at 30,266 postings, 12.4% of the total, down 2,677 from August's 32,943. Healthcare moved into second with 22,764 (+228 MoM), displacing Business & Operations (21,912, −1,030 MoM) to third — the first time Healthcare has ranked second across these four editions.
Remote availability continues to split sharply by role type. Sales & Account Management (39.6%) and Software Engineering (37.4%) run well above the dataset-wide 23.9% remote share, while Hospitality & Retail (3.3%) and Skilled Trades & Field Roles (4.9%) remain nearly entirely on-site.
Top 10 countries: United States (118,923) · United Kingdom (18,173) · Germany (9,865) · Canada (8,690) · France (8,591) · India (6,997) · The Netherlands (5,167) · Australia (3,851) · Brazil (3,301) · Sweden (2,880)
The United States shed 7,310 postings month over month (126,233 → 118,923), the largest absolute country-level decline this period. Canada (8,690) overtook France (8,591) to move from fifth to fourth. Spain dropped out of the top 10 entirely; Sweden entered at tenth (2,880), and Australia climbed from tenth to eighth (3,851).
Remote work
23.9% of active postings are marked remote, up 0.3 percentage points from August's 23.5%. 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 37.4%, Sales & Account Management at 39.6%) 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
34.2% of active postings disclose a salary, down 0.1 percentage points from August's 34.3%. 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 held in a narrow 0.1pp band across the last two editions, sustaining the gain recorded in August after two months at 32.8%.
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 September 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, September 2026. https://joblistingsapi.com/stats/reports/september-2026