recruiting jobs in 2026 — demand, top roles hiring, and related skills
As of 2026-09-30, recruiting appears in 168 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the past 90 days — Engineering Manager has the most postings mentioning recruiting.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-30
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Frequently asked questions about recruiting
+Is recruiting in demand in 2026?
Yes. recruiting appears in 168 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-09-30. Engineering Manager accounts for the most postings mentioning recruiting (34.5% of all postings mentioning recruiting).
+What jobs require recruiting?
According to the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-30, among roles with at least 20 postings, the highest shares mentioning recruiting are Sales Director (8.6% of that role’s postings mention recruiting), Machine Learning Manager (8.0% of that role’s postings mention recruiting), Customer Program Manager (7.3% of that role’s postings mention recruiting).
+What skills are commonly paired with recruiting?
Across job postings indexed by Skillenai (90 days ending 2026-09-30), recruiting most often appears alongside project management, Engineering management, Onboarding, interviewing, mentoring.
+Where is recruiting most in demand?
As of 2026-09-30, the metro areas posting the most jobs requiring recruiting are San Francisco, New York City, London, Dublin, Toronto, according to the Skillenai jobs index.
+How can I keep up with new recruiting content and jobs?
Skillenai indexes news, blog posts, and research papers mentioning recruiting alongside the jobs index. You can subscribe to a daily email digest of new recruiting content from your Skillenai account.
+Which skills come before and after recruiting?
The skill-flow chart shows skills documented in adjacent positions across observed employer changes. An outgoing skill is documented in the following position but not the preceding one. These are ideas to explore, not proven prerequisites, acquisition dates, or levels of mastery. Each ribbon counts employer moves with that skill pair; one move can contribute several pairs.
Weekly indexed postings requiring recruiting — last 90 days
Career paths around recruiting
Skills documented before and after this skill across employer changes.
Historical career profiles · all locations
Skills before recruiting
Skills after recruiting
How to read this chart · view counts
Each side is an independent set of observed employer moves, not the same people followed through three stages. Ribbon widths compare move counts within that side. Internal moves are not included.
The following position documents a skill that the preceding position does not. Skills must be linked to both positions, with clear dates and no overlap. One move can connect several skill pairs. These patterns suggest skills to explore; they do not establish prerequisites, when a skill was learned, or a higher skill level.
Source: Skillenai talent graph, historical career profiles. Historical descriptions and coverage can change. Only the leading published connections are shown.
| Connection | Moves |
|---|---|
| Before: weekly meeting reports | 1 |
| Before: PowerPoint slide decks | 1 |
| Before: ASP | 1 |
| Before: agile methodologies | 1 |
| Before: post-construction additions | 1 |
| Before: efficiency program | 1 |
| Before: Salesforce | 1 |
| Before: invoice processing | 1 |
| After: MyMercy.net | 1 |
| After: usability testing | 1 |
| After: Federal government’s retirement system | 1 |
| After: new materials | 1 |
| After: cross-program/project resource balancing | 1 |
| After: product planning and analysis | 1 |
| After: testing | 1 |
| After: oracle | 1 |
Roles most likely to require recruiting
Among roles with at least 20 postings in the same period.
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | % of role postings mentioning skill |
|---|---|---|
| Sales Director | 3 | 8.6% |
| Machine Learning Manager | 2 | 8.0% |
| Customer Program Manager | 3 | 7.3% |
| Design Program Manager | 1 | 4.8% |
| VP of Engineering | 1 | 2.9% |
| UX Researcher | 6 | 2.8% |
| Software Development Manager | 2 | 2.5% |
| Software Engineering Director | 2 | 2.4% |
| Solutions Engineering Manager | 1 | 2.2% |
| Engineering Manager | 58 | 1.6% |
Roles with the most recruiting postings
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | Share of skill postings |
|---|---|---|
| Engineering Manager | 58 | 34.5% |
| Program Manager | 11 | 6.5% |
| Software Engineering Manager | 11 | 6.5% |
| UX Researcher | 6 | 3.6% |
| Product Manager | 5 | 3.0% |
| Customer Program Manager | 3 | 1.8% |
| Sales Director | 3 | 1.8% |
| Business Analyst | 2 | 1.2% |
| Civil Engineering Manager | 2 | 1.2% |
| Director of Cybersecurity Sales | 2 | 1.2% |
Top companies posting jobs requiring recruiting
Employers ranked by indexed job postings in the last 90 days.
| Company | Postings · 90 days |
|---|---|
| Stripe | 16 |
| Tailscale | 9 |
| Anthropic | 5 |
| ServiceNow | 5 |
| ARS | 4 |
| Capital One | 3 |
| Floqast | 3 |
| Quantum | 3 |
| Scale AI | 3 |
| Jobber | 3 |
Job postings indexed over the past 90 days, grouped by resolved employer. Counts are postings, not hires. Companies without a published page appear without a link.
Top metros hiring for recruiting
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 9 | 5.4% |
| New York City | 8 | 4.8% |
| London | 7 | 4.2% |
| Dublin | 5 | 3.0% |
| Toronto | 5 | 3.0% |
| Los Angeles | 4 | 2.4% |
| Austin | 3 | 1.8% |
| Boston | 3 | 1.8% |
| Dallas | 3 | 1.8% |
Skills commonly paired with recruiting
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-30. Skills are resolved against the Skillenai canonical taxonomy, so the same entity is counted whether a posting writes 'Python', 'Python 3', or 'python'. Role prevalence divides postings mentioning recruiting by all postings for each role in the same window, ranking roles with at least 20 postings. Role distribution divides each role’s recruiting postings by all recruiting postings, including postings without a role. Shares need not sum to 100% for the displayed roles. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-requested skills). An adjusted trend is not shown because comparable posting coverage is insufficient.
- source
- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
- entity_id
- 6ab5a3dd15d5a803
- data_as_of
- 2026-09-30
- window_days
- 90
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