Reqbeat Labs · Press one-pager · July 2026
Reqbeat Hiring-Demand Index
A monthly index of advertised hiring demand, cut from deduplicated public job postings on a fixed slot. Base 100 = the first edition published under the frozen definition.
2,944,467
deduplicated postings in the last 28 days
No prior period at this window — the corpus does not retain one. Comparisons come from the edition series below.
This index measures what employers advertised, not what they hired. A move in it is a move in the volume of public vacancies we can see — which turns before payrolls do, and for reasons a payroll survey cannot separate.
Reqbeat Hiring-Demand Index — withheld
The index figure is withheld. Its definition, base and window are frozen and dated on /method, and no number publishes under it until its two-person method check clears. The observations it will be built from are published below as they are made.
| Edition | Deduplicated postings | Index |
|---|---|---|
| July 2026 (base) | 2,944,467 | — |
Methods Box
Every figure below is a count of deduplicated postings — one row per company, job title and country, per the rule below — over the stated window.
We measure the volume of online job postings we observe, deduplicated to one row per company, job title and country, across 313 distinct sources, over a rolling 30-day window.
Repeat and re-posted advertisements collapse to a single row per (company, job title, country). Where several postings share that key, we keep the most complete one — the row that resolves to a named company with an industry, headcount and location — and break remaining ties by the most recent posting date. Note the key is country, not city: two postings for the same role in two cities of one country count once, and the same role in two countries counts twice.
No published cell describes fewer than 5 distinct companies.
What it does not measure:
- Employment levels, hires, or separations. This is a posting-volume measure, not an establishment survey — it is not comparable to, and does not estimate, the figures BLS publishes.
- Vacancies that are never posted online, filled internally, or filled through a network without a public advertisement.
- Postings behind a login, a paywall, or an application flow we do not crawl.
Full methodology, frozen and versioned: jobs.signalsapi.com/method (v1.8.0).
Cite this study
Reqbeat Labs, “Reqbeat Hiring-Demand Index”, July 2026. jobs.signalsapi.com/hiring-demand-index
Licensed CC-BY — reuse with attribution. The figures above are reproducible from https://jobs.signalsapi.com/hiring-demand-index-data.csv. The postings underneath them are at https://jobs.signalsapi.com/hiring-demand-index-rows.csv. Full study: https://jobs.signalsapi.com/hiring-demand-index.
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