JobShifu/Research/Relisting/Software Engineering

Updated 2026-08-18

How often are jobs in Software Engineering relisted?

About one in 16 of the 80,547 open roles in Software Engineering has been posted, closed, and posted again — the same requisition, on the same employer board.

6.3% of 80,547 open roles in Software Engineering, across 4,977 employers, have been relisted at least once. The rate across every role JobShifu tracks is 5.1%.

By seniority

SeniorityOpen rolesEmployersRelisted
Lead5,1731,0197.6%
Director1,1572476.8%
Mid-level41,5904,9776.7%
Executive3331216.6%
Manager1,5795536.4%
Entry level1,5696116.3%
Senior20,0693,7915.7%
Staff8,3011,6065.3%
Intern7763323%

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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