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 watchOne unemployed American per job opening. That is not full employment.The Bureau of Labor Statistics counts 1.0 unemployed person per job opening in the United States - a ratio that has sat between 1.0 and 1.1 for eight straight readings.
- Market watchTwo and a half people per vacancy. That is not a queue.The ONS ratio of unemployed people to open vacancies has not moved from 2.5 since the July to September 2025 reading.
- Market watchA degree still gets you hired. It stopped getting you the job.Recent graduates are now unemployed at a higher rate than the workforce as a whole, for the first time in New York Fed data going back to 1990.
- Market watchTwice the applications. Thirty per cent fewer offers.That is the arithmetic an international graduate now works under in the United States, and it is the number that does not make headlines.
- Market watchHiring AI was due to start explaining itself nine days agoOn 2 August 2026, software that screens job applicants in Europe was to become subject to the AI Act’s high-risk regime.
- 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.
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.