We counted job postings whose title contains one of these terms — not a category we assigned, the literal searches that produced every number on this page:
business analystdata analystdata entrydata scientist
Plus the equivalents in eight other languages. The list of searches is fixed before the counting. How we measure.
Over the two years to June 2026, advertised demand for this work fell — in the world taken as a whole.
We can see this work in 21 countries with enough postings to be honest about. They do not look alike. In some, this work is pulling ahead of everything around it. In others, it is falling behind.
And in 8 of them, employers advertised fewer of these jobs in the latest twelve months than two years earlier. Fewer jobs, not a smaller share. The worldwide answer above hides that completely.
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One posting can be one vacancy or fifty, and some roles advertise more than others. This measures hiring activity, not headcount.
These terms cover a group of related titles. Two people with different jobs can match the same group.
We show where demand went. Whether AI, interest rates, offshoring or demography moved it is beyond what postings can prove.
The postings we can see grew ×2.20 partly because our provider indexed more. That is why every comparison here is a share or a ratio.