// HACKER NEWS — CYBERSECURITY
28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days
Measured across 607,050 postings open on 15 applicant tracking systems, read directly from each employer's own careers site. Age uses the date the employer published, available on 95.0% of postings. The median open posting is 36 days old.
Computed September 23, 2026 from a sweep that began August 24, 2026, 29 days earlier. Closure figures are bounded by that window and say so below.
28.3% of the dated postings. 94,106 have been up more than 180 days.
Half the catalog was published more recently than this, by the employer's own date.
13,013 of 88,895 closures in the last 30 days. A posting that disappears in days was real.
3,915 of 94,333: same employer, same role, back as a new posting after the close.
Every dated open posting, by the time since the employer published it. The two right hand bands are what this report calls stale.
Hospitality postings sit the longest: 43.9% have been open more than 90 days, median 65 days. Healthcare turns over fastest at 19.7%.
The system an employer posts through says a lot about how its postings age. Lever boards carry the largest stale share at 48.2%; Workday the smallest at 17.2%. Pinpoint, Personio, Y Combinator publish no posting date, so their age cannot be measured and is not guessed.
The fifteen countries with the most open postings, by how their postings age and how often a salary is stated. The full thirty are in the CSV.