The Job Market Hotness Index
Score 79/100 — a heating market with 31,289 open roles across 20 countries and broad employer competition.
Hotness measures employer demand — how much hiring heat is on the board right now, not whether you should switch.
DocuResume publishes the Job Market Hotness Index each cycle: a 0–100 composite of employer-side hiring heat on our live job board. This week scores 79 — a heating market — built from open demand, posting velocity, geographic breadth, and competition signals we extract from ingest, not sentiment surveys.
The formula weights open demand (30%), posting velocity (25%), market breadth (25%), and employer competition (20%). It complements the Switch Job Index, which measures candidate mobility timing — hotness answers how much heat employers are putting on the board.
This week's reading
Open demand scored 85: 31,289 roles live on the board puts us in the top tier for absolute hiring volume. Posting velocity held at 64 after an ingest ramp — day-over-day volume is flat at scale, which reads as sustained heat rather than a one-day spike.
Market breadth maxed at 100 with 20 active countries and eight employer sources. Employer competition scored 62 — 18% of listings carry salary bands and 556 internship openings signal early-career pipeline activity, though pay transparency still has room to climb.
How to use the index
80–100 (scorching): employers are competing for attention — tailor aggressively, lead with match score on high-fit roles, and move quickly on shortlists.
60–79 (heating up): solid demand supports an active search — prioritize quality applications over volume and watch breadth for geographic options.
40–59 (warm baseline): the board is open but not surging — deepen pipeline quality and salary context before expanding scope.
Below 40 (cool): posting volume and breadth are thin — keep networking warm and defer broad pivots until demand recovers.
Hotness vs. switching
Hotness tells you how much hiring activity exists; the Switch Job Index tells you whether now is the right moment to change roles. A scorching board with low mobility signals means lots of jobs but little churn — tailor for fit. High hotness and high switch scores together favor pivots into adjacent titles gaining share.
The live index updates on the Research page whenever daily rollups refresh from ingest.