Half of job postings close within 27.8 days of going live. Across 63,316 postings LandEarly watched open and close, the 25th percentile closed in 13.6 days and the 75th in 54.4 days; 26.1% were gone inside two weeks and 53.3% inside 30 days. Measured on observed closures only, over postings that closed between 2026-06-25 and 2026-10-27 (The LandEarly Job Posting Index, 2026-10-27).
27.8days
Median time from going live to closing
25th 13.6dMedian 27.8d75th 54.4d
11.7%
closed inside 7 days
How this was measured. 63,316 postings observed from live to closed, closing between June 25, 2026 and October 27, 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: 20.5% of postings go live on a Wednesday. 95.4% of all postings publish Monday to Friday, leaving 4.6% on weekends, across 120,131 dated postings from the last 365 days (The LandEarly Job Posting Index, 2026-10-27).
17.3%MondayMon
20.1%TuesdayTue
20.5%WednesdayWed
19.6%ThursdayThu
17.9%FridayFri
2.7%SaturdaySat
1.9%SundaySun
How this was measured. Every dated posting published in the last 365 days - 120,131 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 (36,553 postings). Entry-level roles are not exempt: of 3,627 junior and intern postings that state a floor, 28.1% still demand two or more years and 6.6% demand three or more (The LandEarly Job Posting Index, 2026-10-27).
4years
Median minimum experience demanded
Of 3,627 junior and intern postings that state a floor at all:
demand 2+ years28.1%1,018
demand 3+ years6.6%240
How this was measured. 36,553 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".
15% of postings that describe a work model are fully remote, against 29.5% hybrid and 55.5% on-site, across 46,331 postings whose text states one (The LandEarly Job Posting Index, 2026-10-27).
On-site55.5%25,731
Hybrid29.5%13,665
Fully remote15%6,935
How this was measured. 46,331 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 26,748 postings - and reads 35.9% 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 21.8% of postings populate their job board's structured salary fields, but 39.2% state a pay floor somewhere in the description body - across 58,698 postings (The LandEarly Job Posting Index, 2026-10-27).
Structured salary field21.8%13,485
Stated in the description39.2%23,014
$116,000
median stated annual floor (17,662 postings)
$21.00
median stated hourly floor (5,352 postings)
How this was measured. 58,698 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 791 words, measured over 58,698 postings. 17.9% require a professional license or certification and 1.9% require a security clearance (The LandEarly Job Posting Index, 2026-10-27).
10
median requirements named per posting
791
median words in a description
17.9%
require a license or certification
1.9%
require a security clearance
How this was measured. 58,698 open postings with a machine-read requirement profile; description length is measured over 60,472 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 (7,555 of 58,698). The five most-demanded requirements are Python (7,555), SQL (4,071), AWS (3,541), Salesforce (3,002), Data Analysis (2,984) (The LandEarly Job Posting Index, 2026-10-27).
- 01Python7,555
- 02SQL4,071
- 03AWS3,541
- 04Salesforce3,002
- 05Data Analysis2,984
- 06Distributed Systems2,772
- 07Excel2,554
- 08Kubernetes2,525
- 09SaaS2,415
- 10CRM2,352
- 11TypeScript2,305
- 12Project Management2,271
- 13CI/CD1,987
- 14GCP1,914
- 15Patient Care1,856
How this was measured. Requirements named across 58,698 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.