Report

Job openings on company websites: November 2026

By Sash Stolba · Updated 8 November 2026

Sixthacre reads employers’ own career sites and local job sites every day. On 8 November 2026 it was tracking 848,983 open jobs in 232 countries and territories. Here is what those jobs say about where the openings are and how fast you need to move.

Key findings

• A quarter of jobs close within 8 days of being posted, and half within 22 days. Applying in the first week matters.
• 116,186 jobs were posted in the last seven days, about 16,600 a day.
• Sixthacre sees half of new jobs within 5 hours of posting, and three quarters within 18 hours.
• Openings are everywhere: 56 countries had more than 1,000 open jobs, and 138 had more than 100.
• 12.8% of open jobs are remote.
• Workday carries the most jobs, Greenhouse the most employers: 181,470 open jobs at 458 employers on Workday, against 169,556 at 4,230 on Greenhouse.

How long jobs stay open

Of the 291,069 postings that closed in the 30 days to 8 November, a quarter had been up for 8 days or less, half for 22 days or less and three quarters for 46 days or less. Many jobs are filled, or stop taking applications, well before the posting looks old. The median open job had been posted 34 days earlier, so a long list of open jobs hides how quickly the good ones go.

How fast new jobs are found

For the 205,115 open jobs posted in the last 30 days on sites Sixthacre was already watching, half were in its catalogue within 5 hours of the employer’s posting time and three quarters within 18 hours.

Where the openings are

Sweden, Greece, Malaysia, Italy, Colombia and Japan each had more than 5,000. A job open in several countries counts in each.

Which hiring systems carry the jobs

Large employers favour Workday, Oracle and SmartRecruiters, with hundreds of openings each. Smaller companies favour Greenhouse, Workable, Ashby and Personio. Another 21,205 jobs were on companies’ own application forms, and government job banks such as Canada’s Job Bank and WorkBC carried 49,452.

What this means if you’re looking

• Apply in the first week. A quarter of postings are gone in eight days.
• Look on employers’ own sites. That’s where jobs appear first. Why the company’s site is worth the extra minutes
• Expect long forms. Most jobs sit in Workday, Greenhouse and similar systems, each with its own account and questions.
• Then write to a person. How to email a hiring manager after you apply

How we measured

These numbers come from Sixthacre’s job catalogue, read on 8 November 2026 at 13:23 UTC. It covers the career sites and job sites Sixthacre watches, which grow wherever its users search, so it is not a census of every job: the United States, Canada and Bulgaria, where its first users looked, are over-represented. Posting times come from employers’ own hiring systems. A posting counts as closed when it disappears from the employer’s site. Countries are read from each job’s location; 16,766 jobs had a location too vague to place. You’re welcome to cite these figures with a link to this page.