Xcout IntelWhich job roles are losing ground?
According to Xcout Intel, product marketing manager roles lost the most ground: their share of all new job postings fell 20.2% between 13 July – 6 September 2026 and 7 September – 1 November 2026, across 675 employers. Frontend engineer (−19.9%) and customer success manager (−18.3%) followed.
This is a fall in share, not in count: product marketing manager postings rose from 1,054 to 1,290, more slowly than postings overall (385,032 to 590,450).
| Job family | Change in share | Postings, last 8 weeks | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Product Marketing Manager | −20.2% | 1,290 | 675 |
| Frontend Engineer | −19.9% | 1,182 | 475 |
| Customer Success Manager | −18.3% | 2,663 | 842 |
| Marketing Manager | −16.4% | 2,736 | 1,158 |
| Account Executive | −16.1% | 6,843 | 1,194 |
| Therapist / Counselor | −15.5% | 3,914 | 190 |
| Scientist / Researcher | −13.7% | 2,486 | 547 |
| Sales Manager | −13.3% | 4,530 | 1,018 |
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/job-roles-losing-groundQuote with attribution under the licence. These figures update with each edition of the report; give the date above when you quote them.