SignalsAPI Labs · October 2026
SignalsAPI Hiring-Demand Snapshot
How much hiring is being advertised right now, and which employers account for most of it — from public job postings, deduplicated.
Method v1.14.0 · Generated October 06, 2026 · how we measure
224,285
deduplicated postings in the last 7 days
-7.3% vs the prior period (241,890)
Hiring demand stays concentrated among a small set of large employers, whose postings account for a disproportionate share of everything advertised in the window.
Top employers
- Allied Universal Security Services2,379
- compleet1,796
- infoPraca.pl1,544
- finest jobs1,461
- ALDI Nord821
- NGC650
- GLOBAL HR649
- meinestadt.de GmbH570
- Coupang531
- Bjakcareer516
Top industries
| Industry | Postings |
|---|---|
| Software Development | 11,195 |
| Hospitals and Health Care | 5,647 |
| Technology, Information and Internet | 4,443 |
| Financial Services | 3,770 |
| Retail | 3,754 |
| Government Administration | 2,821 |
| Professional Services | 2,547 |
| Construction | 1,818 |
| Insurance | 1,769 |
| Biotechnology Research | 1,695 |
Industry labels are normalized to the site's presentation vocabulary; corpus variants that normalize to one label are merged and their counts summed before ranking.
Top countries
| Country | Postings |
|---|---|
| Germany | 57,387 |
| United States | 45,349 |
| United Kingdom | 17,404 |
| France | 14,856 |
| Spain | 14,613 |
| Poland | 12,456 |
| Sweden | 8,481 |
| Canada | 5,309 |
| China | 5,252 |
| Switzerland | 5,188 |
The aggregate file carries every figure above. The row-level file carries the postings they were counted from, and states per cut whether it lists all of them or the most recent sample. Attribution required.
Cite this study
SignalsAPI Labs, “SignalsAPI Hiring-Demand Snapshot”, October 2026. jobs.signalsapi.com/hiring-demand-snapshot
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Every figure here is a query over the same live hiring-signal corpus the API serves — today's postings rather than this month's snapshot.
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Methods Box
- What was counted
- 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.
- Sample
- We measure the volume of online job postings we observe, deduplicated to one row per company, job title and country, across 47 distinct sources, over a rolling 30-day window.
- Deduplication
- 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.
- Privacy floor
- No published cell describes fewer than 5 distinct companies.
- What it does not measure
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- 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 (v1.14.0).