The GTM Hiring Barometer · August 2026
136,099 US Sales Postings Drop 18% in August 2026
A monthly index of go-to-market hiring: how many sales roles were posted in the last 30 days, by role and by country, and how that compares to the month before. Built from live job-posting data — one citable number, every month.
136,099
US sales roles posted
-18%
vs previous month
Sales Manager
Most posted role
📊 US postings by role
Job titles posted Aug 2 – Sep 1
- Sales Manager▼ -2%17,523
- Account Executive▲ +1%9,423
- Sales Engineer▼ -10%1,502
- Sales Development Rep▲ +11%1,268
- Customer Success Manager▲ +17%1,256
- VP of Sales▼ -26%338
🌍 Sales postings by country
- United States▼ -18%136,099
- United Kingdom▼ -4%20,609
- Canada▼ -12%10,733
- Germany▲ +32%13,054
- France▲ +5%11,151
- Australia▲ +32%9,606
Methodology
Source. Adzuna, a job-search engine that aggregates postings from thousands of boards and career sites, queried through its public API.
Method. On the first of each month we count postings created in the preceding 30 days: the country totals use Adzuna’s sales category; the role breakdown counts US postings whose title matches each tracked role. Month-over-month change compares the same query against the prior edition’s count.
Caveats. Counts reflect one aggregator’s index, not the entire market — treat the trend as the finding, not the absolute number. Duplicate cross-postings are possible; title matching misses postings with unusual titles.
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