Employers posted 272,040 new IT openings in September, while active technology job postings climbed to 625,633, the highest level in more than three years, according to CompTIA.
ADP’s latest NER Pulse estimates U.S. private employers added an average 23,750 jobs a week over the four weeks ending September 19, the fifth consecutive weekly acceleration.
ISM’s Services Employment Index rose to 50.1 in September from 47.8, its first reading in expansion after two months of contraction. Seven services industries reported employment growth and eight reported declines.
BLS said employment changed little in all major industries in September. Health care, nonresidential specialty trades and manufacturing still edged up, while financial activities lost jobs.
Indeed's September survey of 123 labor-market experts expects its job postings index to rise just 0.13% through the end of 2026, with optimists and pessimists far apart.
Stanford payroll research finds a widening 19% employment gap for workers 22 to 25 in highly AI-exposed jobs, mainly through reduced hiring. A 41-country study points to a shifting junior-senior mix. Neither proves cause.
July's 7.3 million openings and 5.1 million hires measure different things, and neither shows whether employers struggle more to find candidates or to sort them. That answer lives in each employer's own hiring funnel.
