Analysis from the live market
The Market Desk
What the job market is doing, from BabZituna’s own listings when they can carry the question and from primary statistics when they cannot. Every figure names its source, and every piece ends with what it means for you. About the desk
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Earlier editions
- Market watchEurope’s biggest tech job is not engineeringIn five of the eight European cities this desk broke down today, sales openings match or beat software engineering.
- Market watchThe top of the hiring table changed hands in 48 hoursRippling and Anthropic climbed past everyone but Stripe, whose live count fell 29% in two days.
- Market watchEurope legislated pay transparency. Two months on, the ads still do not show the pay.Twenty-three of twenty-seven member states missed the deadline — and in the live market, whether a country passed the law barely predicts whether its job ads name a salary.
- How the numbers workRemote work is not 15%. It is 0% or 90%, depending where you look.One average hides two markets that barely overlap — and a number that measures what employers disclose, not where people work.
- Market watchThe state of the job market, August 2026Salaries, remote work, the skills employers actually name, and who is hiring hardest — read from 3,500+ live openings across 41 cities.
What the desk tracks
Every piece is written from these live streams — open them yourself; they are the same pages we read.
- Salaries by cityMedian advertised pay across 41 hubs, in local currency, refreshed continuously.
- Remote shareHow much of each market is flagged remote-eligible — and where the global pool surfaces.
- Skills in demandWhat employers actually name in listings, recognised against the ESCO vocabulary.
- Who is hiringThe employers holding the most live roles in the aggregated supply, right now.