Half of job postings close within 22.2 days of going live. Across 24,212 postings LandEarly watched open and close, the 25th percentile closed in 10.9 days and the 75th in 45.5 days; 32.2% were gone inside two weeks and 60.2% inside 30 days. Measured on observed closures only, over postings that closed between 2026-06-25 and 2026-09-10 (The LandEarly Job Posting Index, 2026-09-10).
22.2days
Median time from going live to closing
25th 10.9dMedian 22.2d75th 45.5d
13.5%
closed inside 7 days
How this was measured. 24,212 postings observed from live to closed, closing between June 25, 2026 and September 10, 2026. Measured from the employer's own posted-at date to the moment the role left their board. Postings still open are excluded, which biases the figure toward shorter-lived roles.
Wednesday is the biggest hiring day: 21.6% of postings go live on a Wednesday. 95.8% of all postings publish Monday to Friday, leaving 4.2% on weekends, across 67,076 dated postings from the last 365 days (The LandEarly Job Posting Index, 2026-09-10).
16.2%MondayMon
20.5%TuesdayTue
21.6%WednesdayWed
19.5%ThursdayThu
18%FridayFri
3%SaturdaySat
1.3%SundaySun
How this was measured. Every dated posting published in the last 365 days - 67,076 in total, open and since-closed alike. Day is the employer's own posted-at date, not the hour we ingested it.
The median open posting that names a minimum asks for 4 years of experience (28,797 postings). Entry-level roles are not exempt: of 3,268 junior and intern postings that state a floor, 29.9% still demand two or more years and 6.1% demand three or more (The LandEarly Job Posting Index, 2026-09-10).
4years
Median minimum experience demanded
Of 3,268 junior and intern postings that state a floor at all:
demand 2+ years29.9%978
demand 3+ years6.1%200
How this was measured. 28,797 open postings whose text names a minimum years-of-experience figure. Postings that name no minimum are excluded rather than counted as zero - "not stated" is not the same as "none required".
13.8% of postings that describe a work model are fully remote, against 27.7% hybrid and 58.4% on-site, across 38,059 postings whose text states one (The LandEarly Job Posting Index, 2026-09-10).
On-site58.4%22,241
Hybrid27.7%10,548
Fully remote13.8%5,270
How this was measured. 38,059 open postings whose description states a work model. Read from the posting text rather than the job board's remote flag, which is populated on only 16,299 postings - and reads 57.1% remote across those, far above the text-derived figure. The flag is set disproportionately by remote-friendly employers, so we publish the text-derived read and show you both.
Pay is in the prose, not the data. Only 20.8% of postings populate their job board's structured salary fields, but 40.3% state a pay floor somewhere in the description body - across 46,920 postings (The LandEarly Job Posting Index, 2026-09-10).
Structured salary field20.8%10,122
Stated in the description40.3%18,931
$117,133
median stated annual floor (13,854 postings)
$20.30
median stated hourly floor (5,077 postings)
How this was measured. 46,920 open postings. "Structured" means the job board's own salary fields were populated; "in the description" means a pay floor stated anywhere in the posting body. Hourly and annual figures are reported separately because the text rarely labels which it is quoting.
The median posting names 10 distinct hard requirements across a description of 787 words, measured over 46,920 postings. 19.7% require a professional license or certification and 1.4% require a security clearance (The LandEarly Job Posting Index, 2026-09-10).
10
median requirements named per posting
787
median words in a description
19.7%
require a license or certification
1.4%
require a security clearance
How this was measured. 46,920 open postings with a machine-read requirement profile; description length is measured over 47,956 postings. A "requirement" is one distinct skill, tool or qualification named as required - counted once per posting however many times it appears.
Python is the single most-requested skill, named in 12.9% of postings (6,064 of 46,920). The five most-demanded requirements are Python (6,064), SQL (2,999), AWS (2,977), Data Analysis (2,435), Kubernetes (2,170) (The LandEarly Job Posting Index, 2026-09-10).
- 01Python6,064
- 02SQL2,999
- 03AWS2,977
- 04Data Analysis2,435
- 05Kubernetes2,170
- 06Distributed Systems2,144
- 07Excel2,005
- 08Salesforce1,984
- 09Patient Care1,832
- 10SaaS1,830
- 11Project Management1,774
- 12TypeScript1,763
- 13GCP1,671
- 14Machine Learning1,653
- 15Microsoft Office1,542
How this was measured. Requirements named across 46,920 open postings, counted once per posting. Ranked by how many postings name each; a requirement needs at least 25 postings to be listed. This reflects what the employers on our boards are hiring for, which is why clinical terms sit alongside engineering ones.