Hiring falls 10% as Accenture posts 2,031 new roles

By Find your role first team · October 18, 2026, 23:20 UTC

Companies posted 107,239 new roles in the 7 days to October 18, 2026. This was a 10% drop compared to the previous week among the same companies. We added 803 new companies to our coverage this week.

Accenture posted 2,031 new roles, up from 1,740 last week. Amazon posted 2,635 new roles. EY posted 1,281 roles. Google posted 954 roles and JLL posted 907 roles.

Engineering led all teams with 16,662 new roles. Accenture posted 1,156 engineering roles and Amazon posted 634. Data and AI was next with 11,437 roles. Amazon posted 444 Data and AI roles, followed by Accenture with 297.

The biggest jumps in hiring came from Accenture, with 2,031 roles, up from 1,740. Stores posted 258 roles, up from 42. The N2 Company posted 180 roles, up from 0. CarMax posted 193 roles, up from 49.

Example roles posted include System Development Engineer, Network Core at Amazon, Cloud Platform Engineer at Accenture, and Agentic Data Cloud Sales Specialist, Google Cloud at Google. These roles were seen across 7,511 companies.

This week's numbers suggest a cooling trend in hiring overall. Job seekers may want to focus on companies like Accenture and teams like Engineering, which continue to show strong posting activity.

Companies posting the most

A few of the new roles

• System Development Engineer, Network CoreAmazon · Melbourne, Victoria, AUS
• Cloud Platform EngineerAccenture · Bengaluru
• Analyst - Forensics - National - ASU - Forensics - Investigations & Compliance - MumbaiEY · Mumbai, MH, India
• Agentic Data Cloud Sales Specialist, Google CloudGoogle · San Francisco, CA, USA (+10 more)
• Assistant Manager - MarketingJLL · Ludhiana, PB
• Propulsion Systems Analysis Engineer I (Hybrid)RTX · US-PR-AGUADILLA-110 ~ Rd 110 N Km 28.8 ~ RD110

Full numbers for this week, by team, with CSV