We Analyzed 231,147 Job Postings. Only 1 in 3 Is Engineering.

When people talk about "the job market," they usually mean software. Layoffs at tech companies make headlines; bootcamps sell the dream of a developer salary; every second LinkedIn post is about engineering hiring.

So we checked. We analyzed 231,147 active job postings across our corpus and tagged each one by domain. The result is a useful corrective: engineering is the single most common domain, and it still accounts for only about one in three postings. The other two-thirds of the market is operations, finance, HR, sales, healthcare, and more.

The domain breakdown

Share of the 231,147 active postings that mention each domain:

• Engineering — 33.1%
• Operations — 16.2%
• Finance — 13.1%
• HR & recruiting — 13.8%
• Data & analytics — 10.8%
• Sales — 8.6%
• Marketing — 7.9%
• Healthcare — 5.2%
• Product — 2.5%
• Design — 1.7%
• Manufacturing, hardware, legal, hospitality and others — under 1% each

A note on method: a posting can carry more than one domain tag — a "sales engineer" role counts in both sales and engineering — so these are the percentage of postings that mention each domain, not slices of a pie that sum to 100%. That overlap is exactly why "one in three postings is engineering" is the honest headline: two-thirds of postings are not tagged engineering at all.

Why this matters if you're job hunting

Two-thirds of hiring happens outside software, and those roles have their own distinct skill vocabularies. A financial-analyst posting asks for GAAP, FP&A and internal controls. An operations role wants lean six sigma, demand planning and warehouse management. An HR role wants HRIS, employee relations and talent management. Almost none of those overlap with the cloud-and-containers stack that dominates engineering listings.

The practical takeaway: generic advice ("learn to code," "get on LinkedIn") is aimed at a minority of the market. The higher-leverage move is to learn the specific skill language of your domain — the terms that actually appear in the postings you're targeting.

About this data

These figures come from 231,147 active job postings in Seeker's corpus, aggregated on 2026-07-13. The corpus refreshes continuously as new postings are ingested and stale ones expire, so exact shares drift over time. We publish the numbers as they stand, not rounded into a tidy narrative.