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Reqbeat Labs · August 2026
Reqbeat Hiring-Demand Snapshot
How much hiring is being advertised right now, and which employers account for most of it — from public job postings, deduplicated.
By Reqbeat Labs
Method v1.8.0 · Generated August 04, 2026 · how we measure
775,440
deduplicated postings in the last 7 days
+15.2% vs the prior period (673,238)
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
- Jobster az27,142
- Sandra Pfiffner GmbH Brockihalle4,946
- Trinity Health4,493
- Allied Universal2,792
- Inside Higher Ed2,307
- Jobbol2,132
- Alignerr2,021
- hired1,890
- KinderCare Learning Companies1,819
- Host Healthcare, Inc.1,810
Top industries
| Industry | Postings |
|---|---|
| Hospitals and Health Care | 60,852 |
| computer software | 32,917 |
| IT Services and IT Consulting | 25,606 |
| hospital & health care | 22,286 |
| Software Development | 18,436 |
| Technology, Information and Internet | 17,579 |
| Retail | 17,306 |
| Business Consulting and Services | 13,231 |
| information technology and services | 12,989 |
| Financial Services | 12,886 |
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 |
|---|---|
| United States | 329,009 |
| Germany | 78,835 |
| United Kingdom | 36,711 |
| India | 30,156 |
| Netherlands | 29,895 |
| France | 25,346 |
| Brazil | 24,349 |
| Canada | 20,405 |
| Poland | 13,695 |
| Switzerland | 11,487 |
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
Reqbeat Labs, “Reqbeat Hiring-Demand Snapshot”, August 2026. jobs.signalsapi.com/labs/hiring-demand-snapshot/2026-08
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- 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 318 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 (v1.8.0).