How We Measure the Job Market

Corpus & window

SoviaJobs continuously collects job postings as candidates browse and apply across the US market. For this research we used a snapshot of 483,233 collected rows spanning 2026-03-20 to 2026-06-09 (~81 days).

Source coverage

Postings arrive from major job boards and directly from companies’ own career sites and ATS instances (Workday, Ashby, Greenhouse, Lever, and dozens more). Direct ATS and company sites account for roughly 37.8% of collected postings — this is not just an aggregator scrape.

Deduplication

The same job is often collected many times. We deduplicate on the platform’s jobPostingId, collapsing 483,233 raw rows down to 204,223 unique postings before any aggregation. Reposting behavior itself is reported separately in the Job Reposting Report.

Salary honesty

Our median posted midpoint is $144,000 (p25 $115,000 / p75 $177,500). Critically, these are platform-estimated posted market ranges — the pay band shown to candidates (posted or estimated) — not a measure of employer salary disclosure. Only ~9% of description texts contain a literal dollar figure, so we never present these figures as a “salary transparency” rate.

Tech skew & blind spots

SoviaJobs is a tech & professional job-application platform. The corpus over-weights software, data, and product roles (the single most common required skill is Python). We label findings as the “tech & professional” job market, never “all US jobs.” We also cannot see: applications-per-posting, time-to-fill, who got hired, or full description text (it is truncated to ~2K characters), so description-level shares are lower bounds.

Benchmarks

Our median posted midpoint of $144,000 cross-checks against an independent v2 pass at $142K — agreement to the rounding level. Where trends are directionally comparable we frame them against BLS JOLTS (openings/hires) and the Indeed Hiring Lab, while being clear those measure a broader, all-industry universe than our tech & professional corpus.

License & citation

This research is free to use with citation and a link to soviajobs.com/market-research (CC BY 4.0). Every report has a one-click “copy citation” button and an embed option. Suggested citation:

Source: SoviaJobs Job Market Research, June 2026, soviajobs.com/market-research

Data downloads

Raw, flattened CSVs for each dataset (license header included):

• overview.csv
• weekly-volume.csv
• top-titles.csv
• reposts.csv
• companies.csv
• salaries-by-title.csv
• salary-percentiles.csv
• salary-by-state.csv
• experience.csv
• bands.csv
• remote.csv
• skills.csv
• ats.csv

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Press & embeds

For data requests, custom cuts, or interviews, contact press@soviajobs.com. To embed a chart, use the “Embed” button on any report — it emits an iframe snippet with the attribution link baked in.