JobRise Hiring Report · October 2026
Hiring in Malaysia
Published October 14, 2026 · Data as of October 14, 2026 at 6:50 PM UTC
Open jobs2,697
New in the last 7 days34313% of open jobs
New in the last 30 days1,08740% of open jobs
Remote share1.3%of 2,395 jobs from sources that mark remote work
1Key findings
- 40% of open jobs were posted in the last 30 days, and 13% in the last 7 days.
- The largest category is engineering jobs, with 388 open jobs (14% of the total).
- Fuku has the most openings: 183 (6.8%). The top 15 employers hold 51% of all open jobs.
- Kuala Lumpur has 25% of open jobs in Malaysia (676 jobs).
- 1.3% of the jobs from sources that mark remote work are remote (30 of 2,395).
- The busiest posting day in the last 30 days was October 14, 2026, with 86 new jobs.
2New jobs per day
3Top hiring companies
4Jobs by category
| Category | Open jobs | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Engineering jobs | 388 | 14% |
| Sales jobs | 276 | 10% |
| Other | 260 | 9.6% |
| Software jobs | 260 | 9.6% |
| Operations jobs | 233 | 8.6% |
| Finance jobs | 199 | 7.4% |
| Internships | 166 | 6.2% |
| Manufacturing jobs | 109 | 4% |
| Customer support jobs | 104 | 3.9% |
| Logistics jobs | 94 | 3.5% |
| Marketing jobs | 94 | 3.5% |
| Data & AI jobs | 89 | 3.3% |
| Skilled trades jobs | 81 | 3% |
| HR jobs | 68 | 2.5% |
| Design jobs | 64 | 2.4% |
| Healthcare jobs | 58 | 2.2% |
| Construction jobs | 53 | 2% |
| Admin jobs | 50 | 1.9% |
| Hospitality jobs | 28 | 1% |
| Retail jobs | 16 | 0.6% |
| Education jobs | 7 | 0.3% |
5Top cities
| City | Open jobs | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kuala Lumpur | 676 | 25% |
| Petaling Jaya | 283 | 10% |
| Bayan Lepas | 202 | 7.5% |
| Penang | 150 | 5.6% |
| Shah Alam | 104 | 3.9% |
| Johor Bahru | 98 | 3.6% |
| Kulim | 90 | 3.3% |
| MYS Kuala Lumpur | 78 | 2.9% |
| Batu Kawan | 51 | 1.9% |
| Pasir Gudang | 41 | 1.5% |
6Data sources
| Source | Open jobs | Share | Marks remote jobs |
|---|---|---|---|
| SmartRecruiters | 1,163 | 43% | Yes |
| Workday | 835 | 31% | Yes |
| Workable | 295 | 11% | No |
| TimesJobs | 176 | 6.5% | Yes |
| Lever | 91 | 3.4% | Yes |
| Greenhouse | 81 | 3% | Yes |
| Recruitee | 16 | 0.6% | Yes |
| BambooHR | 12 | 0.4% | Yes |
| Ashby | 9 | 0.3% | Yes |
| Himalayas | 8 | 0.3% | Yes |
| MyCareersFuture | 7 | 0.3% | No |
| Lever EU | 2 | 0.1% | Yes |
| RemoteOK | 1 | 0% | Yes |
| Teamtailor | 1 | 0% | Yes |
7How we count
- Sources: employers' career pages and public job APIs, collected by JobRise. Largest sources in this report: SmartRecruiters (1,163), Workday (835), Workable (295), TimesJobs (176), Lever (91).
- 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 (476 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): 2,395 of the 2,697 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.
8Cite this report
Copy and paste:
Source: JobRise Hiring Report, October 2026, jobrise.io/en/reports/hiring/malaysia/