Five Countries Hold 76.68% of Every Job Posting We Can Place

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Bars cover the five deepest markets and everywhere else combined. The gap between the US bar and the next four combined is the finding.

Share of the 309,284 active postings whose location resolves to exactly one country; 445,509 total active postings exist, so roughly a third could not be placed in a single country and are excluded here rather than guessed at. We checked whether a country's count is really just one source's coverage rather than real market size, the mistake behind our own past employer-concentration correction. It mostly is not: no single source explains more than half of any of the top five countries' counts. Brazil is the exception, where a single aggregator supplies 71.5% of that country's postings, so treat Brazil's ranking as partly a statement about our source coverage there rather than the market alone.

Source: Seeker job corpus, 445,509 active job postings, snapshot 2026-09-05. seekerscore.com/insights/job-market-country-concentration-2026

One country carries more than the next four combined

The United States holds 57.06% of every active posting we can place in a single country. India, the UK, Canada, and Germany together hold 19.62%, barely a third of the US figure on their own. Five countries out of the 86 with any presence at all account for more than three out of every four postings we can resolve.

Most of the map is a thin tail

86 countries show at least one active posting. Fewer than a third, 27, clear even 1,000. Only four clear 10,000: the United States, India, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Everywhere else, a job seeker is searching a market with a small fraction of the volume the biggest four represent, regardless of how the postings are labeled or filtered.

We checked whether this is really about who we read, not who is hiring

We have published a correction before for exactly this mistake: a ranking that turned out to measure which employer we happened to crawl, not the real market. So before reporting country shares, we checked whether any single source explains a country's count. For five of the six leading countries, no single source supplies more than half of that country's postings. Brazil is the exception: one aggregator accounts for 71.5% of Brazil's count, which means Brazil's position in this ranking is partly a statement about our coverage there, not only about the Brazilian job market. We are flagging that rather than quietly rounding it away.

What this means if you are searching outside the top few countries

If you are job searching in a country outside the leading four or five, the thinness is a real feature of the market as it can be observed, not a sign that filtering or search technique is the problem. Expect meaningfully less selection by default, and treat any single-country breakdown by field or seniority as unreliable below roughly 1,000 postings, the threshold only 27 of 86 countries clear.

How we measured it (and what we did not claim)

We counted every active posting whose location resolves to exactly one country, 309,284 of 445,509 active postings total. The remaining roughly third could not be resolved to a single country and are excluded rather than assigned a guess. We are not claiming this represents the real global job market, only the market as our corpus can currently see it by country, and our corpus's own crawl coverage is not evenly distributed across the world. Brazil's number in particular should be read with the source-concentration caveat above. We are also not claiming causation for why some countries are thin: it may reflect real market size, our own crawl coverage, or both, and we cannot fully separate the two at a global level with what we measured here.

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