JobRise Hiring Report · October 2026
Hiring in Nigeria
Published October 14, 2026 · Data as of October 14, 2026 at 6:50 PM UTC
Open jobs369
New in the last 7 days113% of open jobs
New in the last 30 days277.3% of open jobs
Remote share0.6%of 332 jobs from sources that mark remote work
1Key findings
- 7.3% of open jobs were posted in the last 30 days, and 3% in the last 7 days.
- The largest category is healthcare jobs, with 85 open jobs (23% of the total).
- Deloitte has the most openings: 226 (61%). The top 15 employers hold 91% of all open jobs.
- Abuja has 40% of open jobs in Nigeria (149 jobs).
- 0.6% of the jobs from sources that mark remote work are remote (2 of 332).
- The busiest posting day in the last 30 days was October 11, 2026, with 4 new jobs.
2New jobs per day
3Top hiring companies
4Jobs by category
| Category | Open jobs | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare jobs | 85 | 23% |
| Finance jobs | 40 | 11% |
| Sales jobs | 40 | 11% |
| Other | 31 | 8.4% |
| Operations jobs | 28 | 7.6% |
| Hospitality jobs | 19 | 5.1% |
| Skilled trades jobs | 17 | 4.6% |
| Admin jobs | 15 | 4.1% |
| Manufacturing jobs | 14 | 3.8% |
| Marketing jobs | 14 | 3.8% |
| Software jobs | 14 | 3.8% |
| HR jobs | 12 | 3.3% |
| Engineering jobs | 11 | 3% |
| Data & AI jobs | 8 | 2.2% |
| Logistics jobs | 6 | 1.6% |
| Customer support jobs | 5 | 1.4% |
| Design jobs | 3 | 0.8% |
| Education jobs | 3 | 0.8% |
| Retail jobs | 3 | 0.8% |
| Construction jobs | 1 | 0.3% |
5Top cities
6Data sources
| Source | Open jobs | Share | Marks remote jobs |
|---|---|---|---|
| SmartRecruiters | 293 | 79% | Yes |
| Workable | 37 | 10% | No |
| BambooHR | 15 | 4.1% | Yes |
| Recruitee | 9 | 2.4% | Yes |
| Greenhouse | 5 | 1.4% | Yes |
| Workday | 5 | 1.4% | Yes |
| TimesJobs | 2 | 0.5% | Yes |
| Himalayas | 1 | 0.3% | Yes |
| Lever | 1 | 0.3% | Yes |
| Teamtailor | 1 | 0.3% | Yes |
7How we count
- Sources: employers' career pages and public job APIs, collected by JobRise. Largest sources in this report: SmartRecruiters (293), Workable (37), BambooHR (15), Recruitee (9), Greenhouse (5).
- 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 (18 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): 332 of the 369 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, SmartRecruiters, supplies 79% of the jobs in this report, so these numbers mostly describe its listings.
8Cite this report
Copy and paste:
Source: JobRise Hiring Report, October 2026, jobrise.io/en/reports/hiring/nigeria/