Hiring Trends in Japan
Hiring Trends in Japan
1,137 companies ranked by hiring activity, with 33,862 open permanent roles tracked daily from each company's own careers page.
Daily total across the 835 companies tracked through the whole period. Companies added mid-period are excluded until the window catches up to them. As of October 30, 2026 · tracked daily since August 17, 2026
Open permanent roles by the industry of the hiring company, across 31 industries with enough activity to report. A company can be counted under more than one industry, so these do not sum to the total.
373 companies
10,705
144 companies
3,956
73 companies
3,919
Open permanent roles by the prefecture stated in the posting, across the 24 prefectures with enough activity to report. Postings that state no location are not counted.
Share of open permanent roles that state an annual salary range, by the level named in the job title. Most Japanese postings name no level in the title; those sit in the last row.
Entry level
785 open roles
53%
Junior
273 open roles
20%
Senior
1,283 open roles
24%
Principal
135 open roles
Counts come from AirTA's own daily checks of each company's careers page. Added counts date a role from when AirTA first observed it. When a number cannot be measured reliably, it is hidden rather than estimated. Report a data issue.
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| Netflix | 21 | 2 | 4 |
| Penta-Ocean Construction | 21 | 0 | — |
| Post Lintel | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| primeNumber | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| SmartNews | 21 | 2 | 3 |
| Tencent Japan | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| UPS | 21 | 0 | 2 |
| Assured | 20 | 2 | 2 |
| AVILEN | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| BIPROGY | 20 | 4 | 4 |
| Bloomberg | 20 | 1 | 5 |
| CA Advance Group | 20 | 0 | 2 |
| CINC | 20 | 0 | 1 |
| Gilead Sciences | 20 | 2 | 5 |
| LegalOn Technologies | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| Nestlé | 20 | 5 | 8 |
| Novo Nordisk | 20 | 0 | 2 |
| Open Logi | 20 | 3 | 3 |
| Pfizer | 20 | 0 | 6 |
| Sanofi | 20 | 4 | 10 |
| akippa | 19 | 5 | 5 |
| Amii | 19 | 0 | 0 |
| Asoview | 19 | 1 | 1 |
| BAKE | 19 | 3 | 3 |
| Bloomo Securities | 19 | 4 | 5 |
| Bluebottlecoffee | 19 | 3 | 7 |
| Datachain | 19 | 1 | 1 |
| Duskin | 19 | 1 | 3 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 19 | 4 | 5 |
| Kose | 19 | 0 | 0 |
| LIFULL | 19 | 2 | 5 |
| Maeda | 19 | 0 | 3 |
| Mitsui & Co. Digital Asset Management | 19 | 2 | 2 |
| Nexon | 19 | 1 | 4 |
| Notion | 19 | 3 | 5 |
| Systena | 19 | 1 | 1 |
| Veeva Systems | 19 | 1 | 1 |
| Visa | 19 | 1 | 8 |
| Acrove | 18 | 5 | 5 |
| AEON Next | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| AGREX | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| Antway | 18 | 1 | 7 |
| BlackRock Japan | 18 | — | — |
| Chariloto | 18 | 2 | 3 |
| Daio Paper | 18 | 1 | 1 |
| Dell Technologies | 18 | 4 | 9 |
| Flyle | 18 | 1 | 2 |
| Karada Note | 18 | 2 | 2 |
| Kyocera | 18 | 0 | 1 |
47 companies
2,427
56 companies
2,144
40 companies
2,016
36 companies
1,833
92 companies
1,746
26 companies
1,706
68 companies
1,699
24 companies
1,597
55 companies
1,454
50 companies
1,215
22 companies
1,213
30 companies
1,130
24 companies
873
41 companies
848
43 companies
692
13 companies
638
31 companies
571
20 companies
483
18 companies
469
19 companies
429
12 companies
415
21 companies
388
21 companies
376
18 companies
365
21 companies
280
15 companies
278
11 companies
228
13 companies
139
847
62 companies
604
81 companies
551
143 companies
520
45 companies
460
47 companies
427
71 companies
365
90 companies
352
68 companies
335
61 companies
301
21 companies
217
59 companies
181
31 companies
179
37 companies
175
20 companies
171
27 companies
166
13 companies
147
26 companies
129
14 companies
121
23 companies
113
28 companies
107
7%
Lead / supervisor
1,924 open roles
52%
Manager
2,340 open roles
23%
Director and above
646 open roles
12%
No level in title
26,353 open roles
50%
Salary Changed Since Tracked
1,388