Ashney Market Intelligence · 31 August 2026 Weekly

The State of Tech Hiring

Where the jobs are this week, read straight from 23,561 companies' own career pages.

Key findings
  1. 01

    The market is not quiet. 13,990 roles opened in the last seven days, and 58,589 in the last thirty.

  2. 02

    Engineering sets the floor. Software Engineer is 37% of senior-tech openings.

  3. 03

    Hiring is concentrated. 34% of every tracked role is in United States, more than the next six markets together.

  4. 04

    India moves fastest for its size. 58% of its open roles were posted in the last month, the highest churn of any large market.

01 — The market

A market in motion, not on pause

Ashney is tracking 131,574 open roles across 23,561 companies, counted by reading each employer's own career page rather than a job board. In the last seven days those companies opened 13,990 new roles. That is not a hiring freeze. It is a market that moves too fast to watch by hand.

Speed is the story underneath the volume. The median role closes 24 days after it appears, so by the time a listing reaches the large boards, much of its window is already gone.

131,574Open roles now
13,990Posted this week
24Median days open
02 — By function

Engineering sets the floor

Across the senior-tech functions Ashney classifies, Software Engineer alone is 37% of open roles. Data / ML, TPM and Product form a clear second tier; everything below is a specialist market in the low thousands.

Open roles, by function Open nowPosted last 30 days
48,982
18,346
15,263
10,357
7,417
7,328
6,470
6,108
5,364
Software EngineerData / MLTPMProductSolutionsSecurityIT / InfraAnalystDesign

Data Analyst roles are the freshest, 60% posted in the last 30 days. Engineering Management, PMM, Product Ops and DevRel add 5,939 more.

03 — By region

One country, then everyone else

United States holds 45,270 open roles, 34% of everything tracked, more than India, Europe, United Kingdom, Canada, Remote, Singapore added together. But raw size hides the tempo: India posted 7,074 roles this month against 12,262 open, a churn near 58%, the fastest of any large market.

Open roles, by region Open nowPosted last 30 days
45,270
12,262
11,761
6,097
5,076
4,908
1,845
United StatesIndiaEuropeUnited KingdomCanadaRemoteSingapore

Australia, Ireland, Japan and UAE add 3,701 roles; another 40,654 carry unspecified locations.

How we count

Ashney reads companies' own applicant-tracking systems directly, hourly, not job boards. A role counts as open until it disappears from the source, and posted uses the employer's own date. Counts exclude duplicate reposts and staffing-agency listings. Region reflects the location stated on the listing; roles with no normalized country are held out of the regional shares above.

Figures are a snapshot at publication. This report refreshes weekly; the Ashney app scores new roles for members hourly. Week-over-week movement arrows begin with next week's issue, once a second weekly snapshot is in. Sample this issue: 131,574 open roles across 23,561 active companies.

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