"Who is Hiring?" postings stuck near 12-year lows as AI reaches half of all jobs (November 2026)

AI is in half of all postings

AI appears in 51.6% of November's postings, second only to Remote. It crossed 50% for the first time in June 2026. Two years ago it was 30%.

The work itself is shifting toward agents. AI agents (including "agentic") appear in 14.8% of postings, ahead of LLMs at 10.7%. MCP barely existed a year ago (0.3%) and is now in 4.5% of postings, the biggest climb in this month's rankings. Meanwhile, the older machine learning label slipped from 14.8% to 11.5%.

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Top 10 Programming Languages

Python (22.1%) and TypeScript (17.6%) still lead, though TypeScript is down from 22.5% a year ago. Rust has climbed to #3, appearing in 8.2% of postings, up from 4.9%, and has been ahead of Go in four of the last five months. C++ and Java are up too, but on small numbers (14 and 11 postings).

1. Python
2. TypeScript
3. Rust
4. Go
5. C++
6. Java
7. JavaScript
8. Ruby
9. C
10. Kotlin, Scala, Swift and Elixir (tied, 2 postings each)

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Front-end roles keep shrinking

Figures in this section are three-month averages, which smooth out month-to-month swings, so they differ a little from the November-only numbers in the chart and tables. Front End has had the steepest fall of any role label: from 27% of postings in early 2022 to 6.6% now, and from 15.6% a year ago. Full Stack (26.2% to 20.1%) and Back End (23.6% to 18.8%) also dropped over the past year, most of it in the last few months.

Seniority mix has been steadier. Senior has stayed around 30% for years, Staff has roughly quadrupled since 2019 to about 12%, and Junior remains rare at around 3%.

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Remote, Onsite, and Hybrid

Work arrangements have barely moved. Remote is in 55.7% of postings, Onsite 26.2%, and Hybrid 17.2%, all within two points of last November.

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Changes to the data

New terms this month: AI Agents, LLM, MCP, RAG, LangChain, Anthropic, pgvector, Vector Database, Bun and Deno. Every thread back to 2011 is re-analyzed on each run, so their full history is included.

I also fixed a bug where a few terms with alternate spellings didn't count their own name (for example, "Next.js" was only counted when written "NextJS"). Next.js, NestJS, WebAssembly, Front End and Back End are higher across all months than in earlier posts. The December 2011 thread, which has a single posting, is no longer included.