JobShifu/Research/Relisting/the United Kingdom

Updated 2026-08-18

How often are jobs in the United Kingdom relisted?

About one in 17 of the 19,646 open roles in the United Kingdom has been posted, closed, and posted again — the same requisition, on the same employer board.

5.8% of 19,646 open roles in the United Kingdom, across 1,359 employers, have been relisted at least once. The rate across every role JobShifu tracks is 5.1%.

By function

FunctionOpen rolesEmployersRelisted
Engineering8031739.6%
Logistics & Warehouse6091619%
Food & Hospitality508377.5%
Education76376.6%
Customer Support6203086.5%
Product2681636.3%
Skilled Trades & Mfg5862056.3%
(not tagged)7,0141,3596.2%
Data & Analytics1,3715065.8%
Medical & Clinical2141035.6%
Finance & Accounting9233555.4%
Software Engineering2,4587485.2%
Sales & Account Mgmt1,6107554.7%
Project & Program Mgmt4802024%
HR & Recruiting1611263.7%
Marketing4813403.7%
Operations & Admin7723633.6%
Design3281902.4%
Nursing & Allied Health48182.1%
Retail316501.6%

How this was measured

JobShifu crawls employer applicant-tracking systems directly rather than buying a feed, so it sees a requisition disappear from a careers page and come back. A posting counts as relisted when the same requisition identifier was observed closed and later reopened; a second opening under a new identifier is a different job and is not counted.

Every row above cleared the reporting floor. Any figure resting on fewer than 25 postings, or spanning fewer than 5 employers, is reported as withheld rather than shown — at that size it describes one employer's hiring, not a market rate. Relist counts faster than a real requisition could turn over are excluded entirely; those come from instability in our own crawler, not from employers.

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