Index

Hiring sits at 146.4, in the surge band, above the August 2026 baseline of 100 and up 3.5 points on the week. This is reading 6 of a 52-week series, so treat it as a direction rather than a verdict.

GenAI / LLM is the strongest signal in live job descriptions right now, appearing in 15.4% of them. These rates are measured against every active posting, so they show what employers are asking for rather than what the industry talks about.

4,525 roles are open across 982 employers in 101 countries. Language Service Providers account for the largest share at 41% of postings, and Americas leads geographically with 35% of roles. Browse every open role.

Language & Creative is the largest career pillar with 2,105 open roles, and Multimedia, Audiovisual & Interpretation is the single most in-demand discipline across the whole industry at 893 roles.

552 roles are being categorized and will appear here as our framework improves.

Language AI companies now account for 23.3% of hiring between these two groups, against 76.7% at traditional language service providers — down 10.0 points since tracking began.

United States hosts the most roles (1,329), and the five largest countries hold 49% of all hiring — the market is broad but concentrated.

820 roles state no country and are excluded from the map and the country ranking, so those figures total less than the 4,525 active roles.

WGWelo Global (Welocalize)537 open roles

ElevenLabs248 open roles

Transperfect240 open roles

WPP Media172 open roles

Sierra155 open roles

LanguageLine Solutions110 open roles

Alignerr109 open roles

Welocalize109 open roles

Centific96 open roles

Deluxe90 open roles

RWS85 open roles

Cactus Communications67 open roles

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Welo Global (Welocalize) has the most openings at 537 roles. The twelve busiest employers together account for 45% of everything on the board, so most hiring still comes from the long tail of 982 companies.

Trados Studio is the most requested translation platform (120 roles), and DeepL leads the AI and MT engines at 64 roles. Tool names are extracted from job text, so treat these as demand signals rather than market share.

Based on 2106 tool mentions across 4,525 active job descriptions. Coverage is partial — not all jobs list the tools they use.

Spanish (429), French (288) and Chinese (281) are the most frequently named languages. Percentages are shares of the 1,905 roles that name a language, not of the whole market.

Coverage: 1,905 of 4,525 active roles (42.1%) name at least one language. The rest are language-agnostic or simply do not say.

Mid Level roles dominate the board at 81% of postings, and Full-time is the standard contract shape at 55%. 1,790 roles are remote, but only 1.9% of those hire beyond a single country.

Across 68 days of tracking, active roles have moved from 1,088 to 4,249, a net gain of 3,161. Remote share currently sits at 39% and the AI signal at 54%.

Readings before 31 July 2026 used an earlier classification and location framework, so the dashed marker shows where the methodology changed rather than a market movement.