Monthly research · August 2026
Remote Data Roles: August 2026 hiring report
Published listings moved from 33 to 39 between the first and last daily close of the month (+18.2%). These are observations from our directory, shaped by the employers we monitor.
By Remote Data Roles · Edition 1 · Published September 11, 2026 · 31 daily observations
- Listings at month end
- 39
- Employers at month end
- 25
- Average daily listings
- 43
- Contract share at month end
- 5.1%
How published inventory changed
The highest observed daily close was 56 listings on 2026-08-09; the lowest was 29 on 2026-08-06. A listing contributes to each day it remains published, so daily counts should not be added to estimate unique jobs.
What the figures tell us
The directory recorded 35 publication or reopening events and 30 closure or expiry events during the whole month. A closure means a listing stopped being published; it does not establish that a hire was made.
At month end, 2 of 39 listings were classified as contract or fractional work, and 37 as salaried or permanent. Employer coverage moved from 16 to 25 companies with published roles.
These changes can reflect listing closures, editorial checks and changes in monitored sources. We cannot attribute them to a change in economy-wide hiring demand.
Coverage and limits
This edition uses reporting definition 1. It counts records marked published at each daily close, including listings temporarily withheld by quality checks. The current live directory can use stricter visibility rules. The data covers a monitored sample of employers rather than every remote opening.
The download includes legacy structured pay coverage: the share with numeric pay, currency and pay period recorded. It measures how much structured pay data we held, not how many employers disclosed pay. Original pay wording was not retained consistently in this period, so this report makes no historical salary or pay-transparency trend claims.
Cite this report
Remote Data Roles. “August 2026 hiring report.” Edition 1. https://remotedataroles.com/reports/2026-08
This edition keeps its original data. Corrections will be identified in a new edition with an explanation. No corrections have been issued for this edition.
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