US job market snapshot: week of October 15, 2026

Where the openings are

The snapshot covers jobs posted on company career sites at the companies JobJot tracks, not the entire US job market. Software Engineer leads the role rankings, followed by Registered Nurse.

BAYADA Home Health Care has the most openings among tracked companies, with 954. Next are ALO with 472, Anthropic with 362, Accenture Federal Services with 356, Axon with 150, Coinbase with 123, ALTEN Technology USA with 110, and Astranis with 95. Check these employers' career sites for roles that fit your experience; a large total does not mean every opening is relevant to you.

• Software Engineer: 1,211 openings
• Registered Nurse: 822 openings
• Operations Manager: 332 openings
• Account Executive: 227 openings
• Retail Associate: 216 openings
• Product Manager: 202 openings
• Analyst: 179 openings
• Therapist: 173 openings
• Legal Counsel: 139 openings
• Maintenance Technician: 103 openings
• DevOps Engineer: 96 openings
• Consultant: 91 openings

Which skills to make visible on your resume

Python is the most-requested skill across all tracked roles, appearing in 18% of jobs. Excel follows at 15%. The list also includes supply chain, customer service, recruiting, and product marketing, so it is not just a ranking of technical tools.

If you have a requested skill, name it plainly in your skills section and show how you used it in a relevant experience bullet. Match the posting where it accurately describes your work. These shares cover all roles, not the requirements for any single occupation.

• Python: 18%; Excel: 15%
• Supply chain: 14%; Data analysis: 14%
• Roadmapping: 13%
• Customer service: 12%; LLMs: 12%
• AWS: 11%
• Recruiting: 9%; SQL: 9%
• Product marketing: 8%; CI/CD: 8%

Remote jobs are a minority of the listings

Across tracked openings, 16% are marked remote. That is the share carrying a remote label, not a measure of how many jobs offer some flexibility.

If remote work is a requirement, check the label early, then read the posting for location and work-arrangement details before spending time on an application. Do not assume a job without a remote label is hybrid or fully on-site; this snapshot does not establish that.

What listed pay looks like

Only 15% of tracked jobs list pay, representing 846 jobs. Among those pay-listing jobs at the companies JobJot tracks, the median midpoint of the listed range is $233,000. The middle half of those midpoints runs from $170,000 to $353,000.

These figures describe range midpoints, not offers or actual earnings. They also do not represent jobs that omit pay. For your own expectations, compare the listed range for the specific role, level, and location rather than treating the overall median as a target.

How to focus your search this week

Start with roles that match your experience, then use opening counts to decide which employers to review first. Volume can help you find more relevant postings, but it is not evidence of your odds of getting hired.

Before applying, check the requirements, work arrangement, and any listed pay. Tailor your resume around skills you actually have, with short examples of what you built, managed, fixed, or improved.

• For software roles, look for postings that match your experience with Python, AWS, SQL, LLMs, or CI/CD rather than adding every popular skill to your resume.
• For other roles, make relevant experience with Excel, supply chain, data analysis, customer service, recruiting, or product marketing easy to find.
• If pay is missing, ask for the range early so you can assess whether continuing makes sense.