Xcout IntelWhich job roles are growing fastest?
According to Xcout Intel, healthcare support roles grew fastest: their share of all new job postings rose 32.3% between 13 July – 6 September 2026 and 7 September – 1 November 2026, across 207 employers. Nurse (+29.6%) and physician (+23.7%) followed.
The healthcare support figure leaves out BAYADA Home Health Care and Ouihelp, whose own postings would otherwise move it; with them the raw change is +51%.
| Job family | Change in share | Postings, last 8 weeks | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Healthcare Support | +32.3% | 6,963 | 207 |
| Nurse | +29.6% | 10,911 | 294 |
| Physician | +23.7% | 2,113 | 156 |
| Pharmacist | +23.1% | 1,107 | 122 |
| Regulatory Affairs | +17.8% | 802 | 272 |
| Process Development / MSAT | +17.1% | 546 | 148 |
| Quality Assurance / Control | +15.3% | 3,533 | 800 |
| Healthcare Practitioner | +12.4% | 5,995 | 227 |
How we know
Every posting at the same 5,140 companies is filed into a job family from its title, and each family's share of all new postings is compared across two eight-week windows (13 July – 6 September 2026 and 7 September – 1 November 2026). Where one employer's own postings would move a family's figure, that employer is left out and named.
Full figures: Hiring Pulse. How every report is built: methodology.
What this does not show
- A role family's change is a change in its share of all new postings, not a count: postings grew overall between the two windows, so a family can add roles and still fall.
- Hiring Pulse uses two windows: company, sector and country changes compare four-week periods; role families and AI shares compare eight-week windows. The two are not combined in one figure.
- These are new postings at a fixed panel of companies on their own careers sites — not employment, not hires. Recruitment agencies and job boards are left out.
How to cite
Xcout Intel, Hiring Pulse, week ending 1 November 2026, intel.xcout.app/answers/fastest-growing-job-rolesQuote with attribution under the licence. These figures update with each edition of the report; give the date above when you quote them.