Job-Market Report, September 2026
Ghost jobs, recycled postings, industries, titles, requirements and score data — every figure below is an observed sample of the 23,510 postings we track (since Aug 13, 2026). We report what we actually see; we never estimate the whole market.
Generated Sep 26, 2026 · daily-compiled sections as of Sep 26, 2026 · observation window: Aug 13, 2026 → Sep 26, 2026 (43 days)
During our first 6 months this report refreshes daily from the 02:30 UTC compile (daily until Feb 14, 2027), then monthly. The URL stays /reports/2026-09 — no new pages per day.
Postings we track
23,510
since Aug 13, 2026
Observed taken down & reposted
1,384 (5.9%)
of the 23,510 postings we track (since Aug 13, 2026) — the strongest ghost-job signal
Median days listed
37
across 16,419 live postings
Companies tracked
233
names are never published on report pages
1 · The postings we track
| Status | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Currently live | 16,419 | 69.8% |
| Live again after a relist | 1,028 | 4.4% |
| Currently removed | 7,091 | 30.2% |
| Tracked total | 23,510 | 100% of this sample |
A posting is "removed" when our last check of it returned gone (HTTP 404 or the board's own "not found" signal). "Relisted" means we observed it taken down and later reappearing.
2 · Take-down-and-relist cycles (recycled postings)
1,384 of 23,510 of the 23,510 postings we track (since Aug 13, 2026) — 5.9% — have been observed taken down and reposted at least once.
A posting taken down and reposted is the strongest ghost-job signal we track: it can make an old posting look new. The rest of the sample shows no take-down-and-relist cycle within our observation window.
3 · How long postings stay listed
Median days listed
37 days
half of the 16,419 live postings we track have been listed at most this long
Longest days listed
43 days
the longest-listed live posting in this sample
Days listed counts from when we first observed the posting — a posting may have existed before we started watching it, so these are minimums.
4 · Where the postings appear
| Board | Postings | Share of sample |
|---|---|---|
| greenhouse | 14,629 | 62.2% |
| ashby | 7,056 | 30% |
| lever | 1,823 | 7.8% |
| web | 2 | 0% |
"web" = postings tracked directly on a company career page rather than an ATS board. We track Greenhouse, Ashby and Lever boards plus company career pages. LinkedIn and Indeed restrict automated access and are not tracked, and Workable careers pages expose no parseable public board for automated readers (verified 2026-08-15), so Workable is not tracked either.
5 · Checks performed in September 2026
Observations recorded
3,940,939
across 20,819 postings
Score distribution
20,819 scored
scores recomputed at report generation (see note)
What we observed
| live | 3,813,658 |
| relisted | 122,443 |
| removed | 4,838 |
Confidence score buckets (0–100, higher = fewer ghost signals)
| 0-20 | 0 | 0% |
| 21-40 | 70 | 0.3% |
| 41-60 | 3,262 | 15.7% |
| 61-80 | 3,385 | 16.3% |
| 81-100 | 14,102 | 67.7% |
Scores were recomputed at report generation for the postings checked in this period (the checks log stores what we observed, not a score). A posting's score can change as it is watched longer.
6 · What this report is — and isn't
- Every number is an observed sample: of the 23,510 postings we track (since Aug 13, 2026). We never claim these figures describe all job postings.
- We track Greenhouse, Ashby and Lever boards plus company career pages. LinkedIn and Indeed restrict automated access and are not tracked, and Workable careers pages expose no parseable public board for automated readers (verified 2026-08-15), so Workable is not tracked either — postings that only live on those platforms are outside this sample.
- Companies appear only as a count (233 distinct companies in this sample). Everything we track per company is public on its company page — there's no separate private company product right now.
- This snapshot was generated Sep 26, 2026. During our first 6 months (daily until Feb 14, 2027) the current month's report refreshes each day from the 02:30 UTC compile, so the numbers here can change day to day — the URL stays /reports/2026-09. After that window the report refreshes monthly on the 1st, and each month keeps its own snapshot. Every daily snapshot is also archived forever at /reports/YYYY-MM-DD.
7 · Industries hiring the most
| 1AI/ML | 27,981 |
| 2Developer Tools/Infrastructure | 25,866 |
| 3Fintech | 19,368 |
| 4Software/Internet | 16,200 |
| 5Logistics/Supply Chain | 14,067 |
| 6Marketing/AdTech | 8,208 |
| 7Cybersecurity | 6,903 |
| 8Consumer Apps | 4,617 |
| 9Healthcare/Biotech | 3,132 |
| 10Crypto/Web3 | 2,952 |
Counts are summed across the period's 9 daily snapshots — a posting visible all month counts once per daily snapshot. Industry labels are our curated single-label classification, not a standard taxonomy; each tracked company is mapped to one label.
Unclassified (postings with no company name, or a company outside our map): 70,236 — counted separately, not part of the rows above.
8 · Most popular job titles
| 1enterprise account executive | 873 |
| 2sales development representative | 711 |
| 3senior software engineer | 684 |
| 4strategic account executive | 666 |
| 5business development representative | 567 |
| 6staff software engineer | 531 |
| 7account executive | 513 |
| 8account executive, enterprise | 432 |
| 9software engineer | 351 |
| 10mid-market account executive | 342 |
Normalized exact titles: case, spacing and common suffixes are normalized, so "Senior Software Engineer" and "senior software engineer" count as one title. Counts are summed across the period's daily snapshots (a posting visible all month counts once per daily snapshot); each day's top-10 normalized titles feed the aggregate.
9 · Education & experience requirements
Requirement shares as of Sep 26, 2026, over the 15,136 postings whose description we could read — never over all postings.
Require a bachelor's degree
20.1%
3,044 of 15,136 read descriptions
Require a master's degree
4.6%
703 of 15,136 read descriptions
Require 5+ years of experience
33.7%
5,103 of 15,136 read descriptions
We read descriptions on 15,136 postings of the 16,419 live tracked postings we watch (as of Sep 26, 2026). 1,167 had pages we couldn't read, and 116 haven't been read yet — those are never counted as zeros.
Requirement shares are computed over the live tracked postings whose description was actually read this cycle (descriptionPresent=true). A posting whose page could not be read is counted under fetch errors / not-yet-extracted — never as a zero.
10 · Trends
Day over day (vs previous compile)
| Metric | Latest compile | Previous compile | Direction |
|---|---|---|---|
| postings tracked | 23,510 | 23,510 | → |
| live postings | 16,419 | 16,419 | → |
| removed postings | 7,091 | 7,091 | → |
| relisted postings | 1,028 | 1,028 | → |
| relist share | 5.9% | 5.9% | → |
| median days listed | 36 days | 35 days | ↑(+1 day) |
| distinct companies | 233 | 233 | → |
| bachelor share | 20.1% | 20.1% | → |
| masters share | 4.6% | 4.6% | → |
| 5+ years share | 33.7% | 33.7% | → |
| descriptions read | 15,136 | 15,136 | → |
| top industry postings | 7,804 | 7,804 | → |
| top title postings | 97 | 97 | → |
| greenhouse postings | 14,629 | 14,629 | → |
| ashby postings | 7,056 | 7,056 | → |
| lever postings | 1,823 | 1,823 | → |
| web postings | 2 | 2 | → |
| score 0-20 | 0 | 0 | → |
| score 21-40 | 53 | 53 | → |
| score 41-60 | 511 | 511 | → |
| score 61-80 | 2,453 | 2,453 | → |
| score 81-100 | 13,402 | 13,402 | → |
Direction is the literal change in the metric between the two most recent daily compiles (Sep 25, 2026 → Sep 26, 2026, UTC). A rise or fall is not a judgment — a rising description-read count is progress, a rising relist share is a warning, and the report never scores either.
Month over month
| Metric | This period | Previous period | Direction |
|---|---|---|---|
| postings tracked | 23,510 | 13,536 | ↑(+9,974) |
| live postings | 16,419 | 12,759 | ↑(+3,660) |
| removed postings | 7,091 | 777 | ↑(+6,314) |
| relisted postings | 1,028 | 58 | ↑(+970) |
| relist share | 5.9% | 0.5% | ↑(+5.4%) |
| median days listed | 36 days | 6 days | ↑(+30 days) |
| distinct companies | 233 | 165 | ↑(+68) |
| bachelor share | 20.1% | 18.6% | ↑(+1.5%) |
| masters share | 4.6% | 3.6% | ↑(+1%) |
| 5+ years share | 33.7% | 28.9% | ↑(+4.8%) |
| descriptions read | 15,136 | 6,900 | ↑(+8,236) |
| top industry postings | 7,804 | 2,573 | ↑(+5,231) |
| top title postings | 97 | 61 | ↑(+36) |
Direction is the literal change in the metric between this period's latest daily snapshot and the previous period's latest daily snapshot (2026-08). A rise or fall is not a judgment — a rising description-read count is progress, a rising relist share is a warning, and the report never scores either.
11 · Trends across time (daily → yearly)
The same headline metrics viewed at four granularities, computed from our permanent archives (the daily snapshots and the week/month/year rollups aggregated from them). Each granularity honestly reports n/a until it has enough history: day needs 2+ days, week needs 2+ weeks, month needs 2+ months, year needs 2+ years.
Some daily compiles are missing — the archive says so instead of filling them in
- no snapshot — daily compile outage 2026-08-22 → 2026-09-17, compile resumed 2026-09-18 (27 days of daily compiles missing)
The most recent day comparison is 2026-09-25 → 2026-09-26: those two dates straddle the gap, so each day-over-day row is the change across that whole stretch, not a single day. We never reconstruct a day we did not compile (a posting carries only its current state), so the week/month/year rollups below cover only the days that were actually compiled — each rollup states how many daily snapshots it used.
Latest day vs previous day
| Metric | September 25, 2026 | September 26, 2026 | Direction |
|---|---|---|---|
| postings tracked | 23,510 | 23,510 | → |
| live postings | 16,419 | 16,419 | → |
| removed postings | 7,091 | 7,091 | → |
| relisted postings | 1,028 | 1,028 | → |
| relist share | 5.9% | 5.9% | → |
| median days listed | 35 days | 36 days | ↑(+1 day) |
| distinct companies | 233 | 233 | → |
| bachelor share | 20.1% | 20.1% | → |
| masters share | 4.6% | 4.6% | → |
| 5+ years share | 33.7% | 33.7% | → |
| descriptions read | 15,136 | 15,136 | → |
| top industry postings | 7,804 | 7,804 | → |
| top title postings | 97 | 97 | → |
| greenhouse postings | 14,629 | 14,629 | → |
| ashby postings | 7,056 | 7,056 | → |
| lever postings | 1,823 | 1,823 | → |
| web postings | 2 | 2 | → |
| score 0-20 | 0 | 0 | → |
| score 21-40 | 53 | 53 | → |
| score 41-60 | 511 | 511 | → |
| score 61-80 | 2,453 | 2,453 | → |
| score 81-100 | 13,402 | 13,402 | → |
Direction is the literal change in the metric between the two most recent days (September 25, 2026 → September 26, 2026, UTC). A rise or fall is not a judgment — the report never scores either.
Period history
| Day | Tracked | Live | Removed | Relisted | Median days | Relist share | Bachelor share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 17, 2026 | 8,072 | 7,986 | 86 | 0 | 2 | 0% | 20.4% |
| August 18, 2026 | 8,275 | 8,011 | 264 | 9 | 3 | 0.1% | 20.9% |
| August 19, 2026 | 8,783 | 8,356 | 427 | 17 | 4 | 0.3% | 17.9% |
| August 20, 2026 | 10,612 | 10,014 | 598 | 36 | 5 | 0.4% | 17.9% |
| August 21, 2026 | 13,536 | 12,759 | 777 | 58 | 6 | 0.5% | 18.6% |
| September 18, 2026 | 23,510 | 16,419 | 7,091 | 1,028 | 29 | 5.9% | 20.1% |
| September 19, 2026 | 23,510 | 16,419 | 7,091 | 1,028 | 29 | 5.9% | 20.1% |
| September 20, 2026 | 23,510 | 16,419 | 7,091 | 1,028 | 30 | 5.9% | 20.1% |
| September 21, 2026 | 23,510 | 16,419 | 7,091 | 1,028 | 31 | 5.9% | 20.1% |
| September 22, 2026 | 23,510 | 16,419 | 7,091 | 1,028 | 32 | 5.9% | 20.1% |
| September 23, 2026 | 23,510 | 16,419 | 7,091 | 1,028 | 33 | 5.9% | 20.1% |
| September 24, 2026 | 23,510 | 16,419 | 7,091 | 1,028 | 34 | 5.9% | 20.1% |
| September 25, 2026 | 23,510 | 16,419 | 7,091 | 1,028 | 35 | 5.9% | 20.1% |
| September 26, 2026 | 23,510 | 16,419 | 7,091 | 1,028 | 36 | 5.9% | 20.1% |
Showing the most recent 14 days — every archived period is linked to its permanent page. 17 days recorded (August 14, 2026 → September 26, 2026, UTC). Rows compare the two most recent days; a direction is the literal change in the metric between them.
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Summary: 2026-09 — 23510 postings tracked; 1384 observed taken down and reposted (5.9%); median listing 37 days; 233 companies. Top industry: AI/ML (27,981). — all reports & archives