Jobs-database/job-titles

Job Titles in Real Job Ads, by Country and Month

Job titles as employers actually write them, counted by country and month, from job ads published on applicant tracking systems (Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, SmartRecruiters, iCIMS and about 40 more) between March and October 2026.

At a glance: 83,880 distinct titles · 2,017,271 distinct openings · 431,532 rows (title × country × month) · 125 countries · March–October 2026.

Most public job-title lists come from occupation catalogues (ESCO, O*NET). This one comes from live ads, so it carries the spelling, language mix and seniority wording that real postings use, and how often each title occurs.

Compiled by jobs-database.de, a jobs-data API that collects open postings from applicant tracking systems.

Columns

Column	Type	Meaning
title	string	Job title as written in the ad, with gender markers such as "(m/w/d)" removed
country_iso2	string, nullable	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code; empty unless the anonymity tests pass inside that country
month	string YYYY-MM	Month we first saw the posting
postings	int	Distinct openings (same title, company and place in the same month counted once)
companies	int	Distinct employers behind those openings

How it was built

• Distinct openings. An opening is one title at one company and place in one month, so re-posts of the same opening within a month count once.

• Privacy and anonymity rules. A title is included only if

  • at least 3 different companies used it (company names normalised, so one employer listed under several spellings counts once), and
  • no single company holds more than half of its openings, and
  • it appears on at least 2 different applicant tracking systems, and
  • it contains no posting company's name, no run of 4 or more digits (requisition numbers, unit codes), no e-mail address, phone number or URL, and is at most 150 characters.

  A country is shown only where the 3-company and 50 % tests also pass inside that country; otherwise country_iso2 is empty (about 48 % of rows). No company names, URLs, locations below country level or description text are included.

• Month = first seen. When we start covering an employer, all its open ads are dated to that month. Coverage grew strongly during 2026, so use shares within a month, not raw counts, to read trends. Raw postings partly reflect our coverage growth.

• October 2026 is a partial month.

Intended uses

Job-title normalisation and similarity models, multilingual title embeddings, occupation mapping (for example to ESCO/ISCO), labour-market research on title wording.

Limitations

• Coverage is applicant-tracking-system postings, not the whole labour market; it leans towards larger employers and towards the US and Europe.
• Titles are not mapped to an occupation code.
• Counts are not adjusted for coverage growth (see "Month = first seen").

Licence and citation

CC BY 4.0. Please credit jobs-database.de and link to https://jobs-database.de.

@misc{jobsdatabase_jobtitles_2026,
  title  = {Job Titles in Real Job Ads, by Country and Month},
  author = {{jobs-database.de}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://jobs-database.de}
}