56,508 Roles Opened, 1,042 Closed: The First Week Across the Boards We Track

In the employer job boards we track, 56,508 roles opened in the last seven days and 1,042 closed, with 54,742 listings open from 686 employers we track that are currently hiring.

The openings figure looks big, but this was our first week reading these boards (we're in beta), so most of those 56,508 openings reflect boards being read for the first time rather than new hiring.

Excel Edges Out Python

The single most-required skill on new job listings this week was Microsoft Excel, on 2,199 of them, just ahead of Python at 1,950. Interesting caveat: we don't see many mentions of Google Sheets, indicating Excel is universally an avatar for both.

Group the Microsoft office tools together (Excel, Microsoft Office at 1,034, Microsoft Word at 983, Microsoft PowerPoint at 670, Microsoft Outlook at 590) and they account for 5,476 skill mentions.

The engineering side of the list is both more specific *and* has much less distance between items: SQL 902, Amazon Web Services (AWS) 838, Kubernetes 645, C++ 549. Data Analysis named 617 and SAP 593. OUr read on this is that, while many types of roles need Excel skills, it's more-universally required for an engineer to be multi-faceted with some of these common items. You can see a full breakdown in our skills index.

Engineering Managers Win in Median Pay

Below are employer-posted salary ranges annualized to USD (hourly figures at 2,080 hours):

Engineering Manager carries the highest posted median at $270,000, from 300 listings. Software Engineer is the largest priced pool by a wide margin, with 1,520 listings having a median salary of $235,400 and Product Manager essentially level at $235,000 on 478 listings.

Below that? Account Executive $197,000 (151 listings), Systems Engineer $188,000 (157), Marketing Manager $180,000 (162), Sales Manager $175,000 (186), Program Manager $212,750 (161). Registered Nurse posts a median of $108,160 across 413 listings, and Sales Representative is lowest here at $81,598 on 237. Our assumption here is that these sales roles have much of their money sitting in commissions that a posted base range won't capture.

Several of these pools are under 200 listings. Treat the medians as a rough estimate and not as something super precise.

Remote Work Remains an Outlier

Just 3% of new listings this week were flagged as remote jobs. Whatever the conversation elsewhere, the boards we crawl are still overwhelmingly tie work to specific cities or offices.

As always, you can dig into our listings yourself and start your job search at CareerApp, which includes the ability to filter by title or skill. Creating a profile will update the job feed and results to best-match your resume and skills. The occupations index is also something we built that works as a great entry point if you're comparing pay.

Correction, October 11, 2026: An earlier version of this post counted every closed listing rather than closed roles, and compared each week with the one before using only roles still open, which overstated closures and growth. The figures above have been recomputed, and comparisons the data cannot yet support have been removed.

Correction, October 19, 2026: The pay medians in this post and its chart were calculated from the top of each posted pay range rather than its midpoint, which is the basis our occupation pages use. Midpoint medians are typically 10% to 17% lower than the figures shown here.