Ashney Market Intelligence · Market report · 5 October 2026 Weekly

Sales

in Japan

Who is hiring, how senior the roles are, and how fast they fill.

The read

Posting is down 54% from the month before, at 149 new roles. The median role is filled within 39 days.

01 — The numbers

By the numbers

681Open roles
149 ↓54% vs prior Posted / 30 days
39Median days open
5%Explicitly remote
02 — Who is hiring

The companies with the most open roles

These 681 roles are spread across 294 companies. The eight below post the most; together they are 20% of the total, so hiring here is fragmented, no single employer dominates. The rest sit at hundreds of companies with a handful of openings each.

Top 8 of 294 companies hiring
30
29
22
15
10
10
9
9
SalesforceRakutenCiscoPalo Alto NetworksTransperfectZscalerAgodaBdx
03 — Seniority

Where these roles sit on the ladder

By title, across the 681 open roles. Seniority is inferred from the job title, so read it as a shape, not a precise count.

Principal 12%Lead 1%Senior 10%Mid / unspecified 75%Junior 1%
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How we count

Ashney reads companies' own applicant-tracking systems directly, hourly, not job boards. These counts are for Sales roles in Japan, deduplicated across reposts and staffing-agency listings. Seniority is inferred from the job title. This report refreshes weekly; the Ashney app scores new roles for members hourly. Figures as of 5 October 2026.

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