Q3 2026 Hiring Report
Open jobs each week of the quarter, pulled directly from company career pages. Pick a company or a function to see its own numbers.
Business software (B2B SaaS) companies
The leading business software companies, such as Salesforce, Adobe, Stripe, Toast, and CrowdStrike. The group is drawn from the Forbes Cloud 100, the BVP Nasdaq Emerging Cloud Index, and Andreessen Horowitz's Enterprise portfolio, plus McCoy's list of other business software companies.
Open jobs
Across companies: 115 of 221 grew, 99 shrank, 7 held steady. The median company changed +5%. The 5 biggest gainers account for 50% of the growth.
Open jobs, top 6 functions
Top hirers by jobs added
By function
| Function | Trend | Added | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering | 10.8k | +11% | |
| Sales | 10.4k | +6% | |
| Operations | 5,334 | −2% | |
| Customer Success | 2,456 | +49% | |
| Marketing | 2,245 | +10% | |
| Product Management | 1,433 | +6% | |
| Finance | 1,272 | +7% | |
| Legal | 689 | +7% | |
| Data | 688 | +2% | |
| Project Management | 685 | +102% | |
| Design | 596 | −2% | |
| Consulting | 525 | +93% | |
| Research | 524 | −8% | |
| Business Development | 448 | +121% | |
| Trades | 284 | +59% | |
| Policy | 92 | – | |
| Infrastructure | 87 | – | |
| Security | 85 | −55% | |
| Executive | 62 | −34% | |
| People | 60 | – | |
| Safety | 4 | – | |
| Other | 474 | −35% |
By seniority
Jul 1
Sep 30
- Intern & entry6% → 7%
- Early career (1-3 yrs)15% → 17%
- Senior (3-6 yrs)28% → 29%
- Staff / Lead (6-10 yrs)18% → 20%
- Principal+ (10+ yrs)7% → 5%
- Manager17% → 15%
- Director & above5% → 5%
- Not specified4% → 2%
| Level | Trend | Open | Share | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intern | 255 → 438 | 1% | +72% | |
| Entry (new grad) | 1,488 → 1,644 | 5% | +10% | |
| Early career (1-3 yrs) | 4,240 → 5,188 | 17% | +22% | |
| Senior (3-6 yrs) | 7,962 → 9,063 | 29% | +14% | |
| Staff / Lead (6-10 yrs) | 5,128 → 6,215 | 20% | +21% | |
| Principal+ (10+ yrs) | 2,081 → 1,580 | 5% | −24% | |
| Manager | 4,780 → 4,666 | 15% | −2% | |
| Director | 1,168 → 1,352 | 4% | +16% | |
| VP | 206 → 237 | 1% | +15% | |
| C-Suite | 21 → 22 | 0% | – | |
| Counsel | 21 → 2 | 0% | – | |
| Not specified | 1,070 → 648 | 2% | −39% |
By location
In the US: 15.1k → 17.5k (+16%). Outside the US: 12.4k → 12.4k (0%).
| Metro area | Trend | Open | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Francisco Bay Area | 4,008 → 4,620 | +15% | |
| New York City | 1,370 → 1,525 | +11% | |
| Orange County | 1,197 → 1,427 | +19% | |
| London | 1,069 → 1,078 | +1% | |
| Bengaluru | 1,243 → 941 | −24% | |
| Seattle | 558 → 589 | +6% | |
| Washington DC | 368 → 441 | +20% | |
| Dublin | 384 → 404 | +5% | |
| Boston | 318 → 396 | +25% | |
| Tokyo | 405 → 395 | −2% | |
| Austin | 310 → 353 | +14% | |
| Chicago | 311 → 346 | +11% | |
| Other or not specified | 11.3k → 13.5k | +19% |
About the data
- These are open job postings on company career pages, not hires. An open role can stay up for weeks before someone is hired.
- Every number covers the 221 companies we tracked for all of Q3 2026, so each week compares the same companies. 95 more were added during the quarter and are left out, since we don't have their count from the start of the quarter.
- Also left out: the job boards of Atlassian, Coupa, Dayforce, Monday.com, NinjaOne, and Workday. We couldn't fully see these boards during Q3 2026, so their early weeks would read too low. Any other boards these companies run still count.
- Some companies list the same role in several cities, and each listing counts. For location, a job listed in several places counts once, under the first location the company lists.
- 52% of open jobs at the end of the quarter are outside the metro areas we map, or don't list a location we can read. They show as Other or not specified.
- 1,147 open jobs at the end of the quarter don't list a country we can read, so they are in neither the US nor the outside-the-US count.
- Jobs are grouped by function using each posting's title and description.
- Q3 2026 is our first full quarter of tracking, so there is no earlier quarter to compare with yet.
- We pull open roles directly from company career pages, refreshed daily, using only public sources and honoring each site's crawler preferences. More in our methodology.