JobRise Hiring Report · October 2026

Hiring in Japan

Published October 14, 2026 · Data as of October 14, 2026 at 6:50 PM UTC

Open jobs3,428
New in the last 7 days2727.9% of open jobs
New in the last 30 days1,13233% of open jobs
Remote share2%of 3,391 jobs from sources that mark remote work

1Key findings

  1. 33% of open jobs were posted in the last 30 days, and 7.9% in the last 7 days.
  2. The largest category is sales jobs, with 707 open jobs (21% of the total).
  3. Rakuten has the most openings: 709 (21%). The top 15 employers hold 48% of all open jobs.
  4. Tokyo has 58% of open jobs in Japan (1,994 jobs).
  5. 2% of the jobs from sources that mark remote work are remote (67 of 3,391).
  6. The busiest posting day in the last 30 days was October 2, 2026, with 215 new jobs.

2New jobs per day

New jobs per day, JapanColumn chart of open jobs by posting date from September 15, 2026 to October 14, 2026, 1,132 jobs in total. The busiest day was October 2, 2026, with 215 jobs. 0100200300Sep 15: 4141Sep 16: 4141Sep 17: 4242Sep 18: 4444Sep 19: 1313Sep 19Sep 20: 44Sep 21: 1616Sep 22: 1212Sep 23: 1515Sep 24: 3333Sep 24Sep 25: 4040Sep 26: 22Sep 27: 55Sep 28: 5151Sep 29: 4242Sep 29Sep 30: 4343Oct 1: 5252Oct 2: 215215Oct 3: 55Oct 4: 11Oct 4Oct 5: 3131Oct 6: 6464Oct 7: 4848Oct 8: 3434Oct 9: 6363Oct 9Oct 10: 22Oct 11: 44Oct 12: 1010Oct 13: 6666Oct 14: 9393Oct 14 Date posted (UTC) New jobs
Open jobs by the date they were posted. The last bar is a partial day.

3Top hiring companies

#CompanyOpen jobsShareLatest roles
1Rakuten70921%Product Manager, Core Platform Planning Group - EC Logistics Development Department (ECLD)Development Tools Producer & Coordination Specialist - Corporate IT Infrastructure Department (CITID)Senior Product Manager - Product Management Section, EC Marketplace Development Department (ECMPD)
2Google1464.3%Japan Games Go-to-Market Manager, Google Play (English, Japanese)Marketing Creative II (Japanese, English)Software Engineer III, Search
3Renesas Electronics1444.2%半導体拡散プロセスエンジニア半導体前工程 生産設備保全員(茨城) (4)車載/ロボティクス/パワーアプリケーション向けソフトウェア・PoC開発エンジニア
4Bosch Group902.6%[GR] 本社ファシリティマネジメント及び総務管理[2WP] 二輪&パワースポーツ ECU プロジェクトマネージャー/ECU Project Manager for Two Wheeler & Powersports[2WP] 二輪&パワースポーツ Electrificationプロジェクトマネージャー/ Two-Wheeler & Powersports Project Manager in Electrification
5Salesforce732.1%Sales Strategy Senior Specialist/ManagerSenior Engagement Manager, Financial Services(FY 27) Account Executive, Enterprise Sales (MFG/MAE)
6Dxctechnology702%【EAS】Oracle Consultant【EAS】Oracle Cloud Consultant【Consulting】Microsoftコンサルタント
7H&M Group672%セールスアドバイザー(イーアス沖縄豊崎店)セールスアドバイザー正社員(H&M 下関)セールスアドバイザー 正社員(SOCOLA武蔵小金井クロス)
8Turner & Townsend611.8%マーケティング・コミュニケーション・コーディネーター(日本勤務)Graduate Development Programme 2028【Project Management】 Senior Project Manager / Project Manager
9Stryker511.5%Territory Manager, Trauma Kanto2Territory Manager, Trauma Kanto3Senior Engineer, Field Service
10Medtronic501.5%Prin Business Development RepSales AdministratorSales RepresentativeⅡ~Ⅲ (CAS @ East Japan)
11Astrazeneca451.3%【AstraZeneca】【Medical】Medical Science Liaison, メディカル本部 オンコロジー部門 メディカルサイエンスリエゾングループ グループ-1(LC領域)【AstraZeneca】【Medical】Medical Science Liaison, メディカル本部 オンコロジー部門 メディカルサイエンスリエゾングループ グループ-1(HEM領域)【AstraZeneca】【Oncology-Marketing】 Brand manager (BM) , オンコロジー事業本部, 泌尿器がん・婦人科がんマーケティング
12Astroscale401.2%障がい者雇用(契約社員)/Employment of Disabilities (Contract Employment)Eng24_GNCエンジニア /Guidance Navigation and Control EngineerSecurity Risk & Governance (Sr.) Manager
13Danaher401.2%製造技術マネージャー(プロジェクトマネージャー)Technical Specialist IIField Application Specialists
14Abbott391.1%〈ID事業部〉Senior QA Specialist【Abbott Medical Japan】Senior QC SpecialistAmbassador
15IBM371.1%IBM Japan Research ScientistITHR Services Administrator_WS_Conversion

4Jobs by category

Open jobs by category, JapanBar chart of open jobs by category. The largest is Sales jobs, with 707 jobs.Sales jobs707Other523Operations jobs329Marketing jobs288Engineering jobs264Software jobs244Data & AI jobs197Finance jobs152

5Top cities

CityOpen jobsShare
Tokyo1,99458%
Osaka1173.4%
Yokohama972.8%
JPN712.1%
Kodaira661.9%
Minato-ku411.2%
Minato City371.1%
Toyosu260.8%
Yonezawa-shi210.6%
Fukuoka190.6%

6Data sources

SourceOpen jobsShareMarks remote jobs
Workday1,78152%Yes
SmartRecruiters78523%Yes
TimesJobs3209.3%Yes
Greenhouse2386.9%Yes
Ashby1103.2%Yes
BambooHR481.4%Yes
Lever381.1%Yes
Workable351%No
Recruitee341%Yes
Himalayas150.4%Yes
Lever EU140.4%Yes
Breezy70.2%Yes
MyCareersFuture20.1%No
Personio10%Yes

7How we count

  • Sources: employers' career pages and public job APIs, collected by JobRise. Largest sources in this report: Workday (1,781), SmartRecruiters (785), TimesJobs (320), Greenhouse (238), Ashby (110).
  • Duplicates are removed: a role listed on several sources is counted once, matched on company and job title.
  • Counts are of jobs open on October 14, 2026 at 6:50 PM UTC. Each job counts once, in the country of its location, or as remote. A country's remote share counts remote roles limited to applicants in that country.
  • A job listed in several places counts once, in the country of the first place listed. Jobs whose source gives no single country count only in the global report.
  • New jobs use the employer's posting date. If the employer gives none, or a later "updated" date, we use the date JobRise first saw the listing. Listings already live when tracking began on October 14, 2026 have no known date (1,117 jobs here) and are left out of new-job counts. Daily counts include only jobs still open, so older days are undercounted. Days are UTC calendar days and the last day is partial.
  • Remote share counts only jobs from sources that mark whether a job is remote (see Data sources): 3,391 of the 3,428 jobs here.
  • Categories come from the job title and department, using keyword rules. Roles that match no rule are counted as Other.
  • Company names are shown as listed. Staffing agencies count as the employer named on the posting.
  • One source, Workday, supplies 52% of the jobs in this report, so these numbers mostly describe its listings.

8Cite this report

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Source: JobRise Hiring Report, October 2026, jobrise.io/en/reports/hiring/japan/