JobRise Hiring Report · October 2026
Hiring in New Zealand
Published October 15, 2026 · Data as of October 15, 2026 at 7:05 AM UTC
Open jobs1,684
New in the last 7 days17210% of open jobs
New in the last 30 days54032% of open jobs
Remote share5.4%of 1,401 jobs from sources that mark remote work
1Key findings
- 32% of open jobs were posted in the last 30 days, and 10% in the last 7 days.
- The largest category is healthcare jobs, with 281 open jobs (17% of the total).
- Memorial Healthcare has the most openings: 569 (34%). The top 15 employers hold 69% of all open jobs.
- Auckland has 30% of open jobs in New Zealand (502 jobs).
- 5.4% of the jobs from sources that mark remote work are remote (76 of 1,401).
- The busiest posting day in the last 30 days was October 15, 2026, with 35 new jobs.
2New jobs per day
3Top hiring companies
4Jobs by category
| Category | Open jobs | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Other | 385 | 23% |
| Healthcare jobs | 281 | 17% |
| Sales jobs | 177 | 11% |
| Software jobs | 147 | 8.7% |
| Operations jobs | 116 | 6.9% |
| Engineering jobs | 83 | 4.9% |
| Skilled trades jobs | 75 | 4.5% |
| Marketing jobs | 65 | 3.9% |
| Finance jobs | 57 | 3.4% |
| Admin jobs | 42 | 2.5% |
| Logistics jobs | 40 | 2.4% |
| Data & AI jobs | 37 | 2.2% |
| Internships | 35 | 2.1% |
| HR jobs | 29 | 1.7% |
| Design jobs | 27 | 1.6% |
| Customer support jobs | 26 | 1.5% |
| Manufacturing jobs | 22 | 1.3% |
| Hospitality jobs | 14 | 0.8% |
| Education jobs | 11 | 0.7% |
| Retail jobs | 8 | 0.5% |
| Construction jobs | 7 | 0.4% |
5Top cities
| City | Open jobs | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Auckland | 502 | 30% |
| Memorial Regional Hospital | 128 | 7.6% |
| Memorial Hospital West | 85 | 5% |
| Wellington | 69 | 4.1% |
| Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital | 62 | 3.7% |
| Memorial Hospital Miramar | 40 | 2.4% |
| Memorial Hospital Pembroke | 40 | 2.4% |
| Waikato | 38 | 2.3% |
| Christchurch | 34 | 2% |
| Memorial Regional Hospital South | 31 | 1.8% |
6Data sources
| Source | Open jobs | Share | Marks remote jobs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Workday | 745 | 44% | Yes |
| Ashby | 289 | 17% | Yes |
| Workable | 141 | 8.4% | No |
| BambooHR | 130 | 7.7% | Yes |
| NZ Government Jobs | 129 | 7.7% | No |
| Greenhouse | 124 | 7.4% | Yes |
| Himalayas | 66 | 3.9% | Yes |
| TimesJobs | 23 | 1.4% | Yes |
| Teamtailor | 18 | 1.1% | Yes |
| Capgemini | 13 | 0.8% | No |
| Personio | 5 | 0.3% | Yes |
| Recruitee | 1 | 0.1% | Yes |
7How we count
- Sources: employers' career pages and public job APIs, collected by JobRise. Largest sources in this report: Workday (745), Ashby (289), Workable (141), BambooHR (130), NZ Government Jobs (129).
- 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 15, 2026 at 7:05 AM 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 (756 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): 1,401 of the 1,684 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/new-zealand/