SignalsAPI Labs · Press one-pager · September 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.
222,760
deduplicated postings in the last 7 days (+110.8% vs the prior period, 105,659)
Hiring demand stays concentrated among a small set of large employers, whose postings account for a disproportionate share of everything advertised in the window.
SignalsAPI Hiring-Demand Snapshot: postings by employer, September 2026
Top employers
- Experteer1,882
- Bjakcareer1,308
- Trucking and Transportation Career Board1,078
- Allied Universal Security Services772
- The Guardian725
- ARWA Personaldienstleistungen GmbH627
- Appcastenterprise551
- meinestadt.de465
- CRIT460
- Randstad Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG436
Top industries
- Software Development3,896
- Hospitals and Health Care2,226
- Internet Marketplace Platforms1,951
- Financial Services1,321
- Defense and Space Manufacturing1,277
- Government Administration1,161
- Retail1,004
- Professional Services958
- Technology, Information and Internet638
- Construction581
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
- Germany67,851
- United States26,140
- Spain14,668
- Poland14,605
- France12,742
- United Kingdom11,831
- China10,979
- Sweden10,891
- Switzerland6,980
- Austria5,729
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 55 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 (v1.11.0).
Cite this study
SignalsAPI Labs, “SignalsAPI Hiring-Demand Snapshot”, September 2026. jobs.signalsapi.com/hiring-demand-snapshot
Licensed CC-BY — reuse with attribution. The figures above are reproducible from https://jobs.signalsapi.com/hiring-demand-snapshot-data.csv. The postings underneath them are at https://jobs.signalsapi.com/hiring-demand-snapshot-rows.csv. Full study: https://jobs.signalsapi.com/hiring-demand-snapshot.
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