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Who else is hiring the people you need?

Pick a sector and your own city. This reads live adverts across 37 cities in 19 countries and shows where that sector takes up the biggest share of the local market. Your competition for those people is not always the city down the road.

The sector drives the global comparison, because it is the one thing measured the same way in every language. A role narrows the figure for your own city only.

Starting

Reading 37 cities takes a moment the first time a sector is asked for. After that it is instant.

Your market

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How this is measured

Why a sector rather than a job title
Where the numbers come from
Concentration
Pay
Movement over time
The source publishes no endpoint for how job volume moved historically, so none of this is back-filled. This tool takes its own reading every night and builds the series forward from the day it started. A proxy was tested first, comparing adverts posted in the last 30 days against the last 90, and rejected: across 15 cities it ranged only 0.55 to 0.77 and grouped by country rather than by city, so it measured local reposting convention rather than demand. Each stored reading counts adverts posted in the last seven days, and movement compares the newest reading against the one about a week before it, so two separate weeks are compared rather than two overlapping ones.
Known limits
Advertised roles are not all roles, and some employers never advertise. United States figures are metro-wide rather than city limits. Ireland is absent because the source publishes no Irish data. A sector is broad, so it tells you where a discipline sits, not which exact job title is short.