Statistics, as of 7 November 2026
Job postings by category
How the open job postings we hold split across 25 job categories, from healthcare to security. Counted on the live ledger.
Free, 25 rows, one extra column with the snapshot date. CC BY 4.0, cite as Job Opportunities API.
What the numbers say
- Healthcare is the largest category with 461,838 open postings, 16.8% of the total.
- The three largest categories (Healthcare, Engineering, Operations & Admin) hold 38.1% of postings.
- 5.7% of postings do not fit any of our categories and are shown as Uncategorised.
Open postings by category
| Category | Rank | Open postings | Share of postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Healthcare | 1 | 461,838 | 16.8% |
| Engineering | 2 | 300,182 | 10.9% |
| Operations & Admin | 3 | 283,850 | 10.3% |
| Sales | 4 | 227,086 | 8.3% |
| Skilled Technician | 5 | 194,523 | 7.1% |
| Retail | 6 | 159,927 | 5.8% |
| Hospitality | 7 | 157,997 | 5.8% |
| Uncategorised | 8 | 156,437 | 5.7% |
| Finance | 9 | 133,067 | 4.8% |
| Logistics & Transport | 10 | 85,750 | 3.1% |
| Customer Support | 11 | 74,300 | 2.7% |
| Education | 12 | 72,833 | 2.7% |
| Marketing | 13 | 65,129 | 2.4% |
| Manufacturing | 14 | 60,561 | 2.2% |
| HR & Recruiting | 15 | 48,137 | 1.8% |
| Construction & Trades | 16 | 42,646 | 1.6% |
| Consulting & Strategy | 17 | 40,704 | 1.5% |
| Data & Analytics | 18 | 39,562 | 1.4% |
| Legal & Compliance | 19 | 32,507 | 1.2% |
| Design | 20 | 22,870 | 0.8% |
| Security | 21 | 22,000 | 0.8% |
| Science & Research | 22 | 20,649 | 0.8% |
| Product | 23 | 20,558 | 0.7% |
| Procurement | 24 | 13,613 | 0.5% |
| Safety & Environment | 25 | 10,971 | 0.4% |
How this is counted
- The category is our own job family classification, assigned by our classifier from the job title and text. Some listing fields are machine generated, and the AI disclosure page says which.
- Each open posting has exactly one category, so the shares add up to 100%.
- Open postings are the roles the API serves by default at the time of the snapshot.
- Reproduce it.
curl https://api.jobopportunitiesapi.org/public/facets. Group family in the data object, same snapshot, no key needed. Measured 7 November 2026.
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