Amazon posts 364 roles as hiring cools 5%

By Find your role first team · October 21, 2026, 23:20 UTC

In the 24 hours to 23:20 UTC on October 21, 2026, 20,115 new roles were posted. This marks a 5% decrease compared to the previous day, considering only companies that were tracked across both periods. A total of 3,785 companies posted new roles.

Amazon led with 364 new roles, followed by EY with 250, and JLL with 167. EY showed a significant increase in hiring, posting 250 roles compared to 115 the previous day. Other companies with notable jumps included Uline and Amentum.

Engineering remained the top team for new roles with 2,865 postings, including 75 at Amazon and 64 at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Data and AI followed with 2,266 roles, with Amazon and Launch Potato each posting 54. Finance, legal and people roles also saw 1,232 new postings, with EY contributing 99.

Example roles include Senior Electrical Engineer at Amazon, EY-Parthenon Manager at EY, and Technical Support Engineer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. These roles reflect continued activity in engineering, consulting, and technical support.

These numbers suggest a slight cooling in overall hiring activity for the period. Job seekers might observe fewer new opportunities compared to the previous day, but specific sectors like engineering and data continue to show consistent demand.

Companies posting the most

A few of the new roles

• Senior Electrical Engineer, Data Center Engineering - Electrical Products and Services (DCE-EPS)Amazon · Atlanta, Georgia, USA
• EY-Parthenon - Corp Fin - Decision Modeling and Analytics - Manager - Multiple Positions - 1754249EY · Houston, TX, United States
• Senior Analyst, Production Support - Debt AdvisoryJLL · Irvine, CA
• Technical Support EngineerHewlett Packard Enterprise · Mexico City Distrito Federal Mexico (+1 more)
• Research Engineer, Gemini Large Scale Pretraining, DeepMindGoogle · London, UK (+1 more)
• Principal Data ScientistHP · Austin, TX, US

Full numbers for this day, by team, with CSV