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Updated 2026-08-21

What the job market actually looks like

JobShifu crawls employer applicant-tracking systems directly rather than buying a feed, so it can watch a posting appear, sit, disappear, and come back. These are findings from that crawl.

JobShifu Research publishes hiring statistics measured from 982,662 open job postings at 18,835 employers, crawled directly from those employers' own applicant tracking systems. It reports how often postings are relisted, how long they stay open, how much experience they ask for, how often they state pay, and how often they mention visa sponsorship.

The numbers come from a crawl JobShifu runs itself, not from a purchased feed, so each posting has a first-seen and last-seen date rather than only the date a board was updated.

How often are job postings relisted?

About one in 19 open roles has been posted, closed, and posted again, the same requisition on the same employer board. Broken down by function and seniority across 982,662 open roles at 18,835 employers. Read the numbers →

How long do job postings stay open?

Half of job postings disappear from the employer's own board within four weeks, and a third are still up after a month. Broken down by function and seniority, using a survival estimate rather than an average, because most postings in any window have not closed yet. Read the numbers →

How many years of experience do entry-level jobs ask for?

Among entry-level postings that state a minimum, more than half ask for two years or more, and internships are not exempt. Broken down by level, with the share of each level that states a minimum at all published next to every rate. Read the numbers →

How many job postings actually state the pay?

About one job posting in six states the pay, and disclosure rises with seniority rather than falling: junior roles are the least forthcoming. Broken down by level and country, counting a posting as silent only after its description was read and no pay was found. Read the numbers →

How many job postings say they will sponsor a visa?

Eight job postings say they will not sponsor a visa for every one that says it will, and the overwhelming majority never raise it at all. Broken down by function for US postings, with silence reported as its own state rather than read as a no. Read the numbers →

How are these numbers produced?

Every figure comes from postings JobShifu crawled itself from employer applicant tracking systems, counted under the same serving rules the product uses, so the public numbers agree with what the app shows. Figures resting on too few postings, or on too few employers to be a market rate rather than one company's hiring, are withheld rather than shown.

What a rate cannot tell you

A rate describes a market. It cannot tell you whether the posting you are looking at is one of them. That is a different question, and it is settled by one requisition's own crawl history: the date the posting was first seen, whether the same requisition was listed before, and how long it has been up since.

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Nothing here identifies a posting or reproduces a job description. Figures are recounted on every rebuild rather than copied forward.