Information Sector Job Openings (NAICS 51)

A month earlier, in July 2026, openings were 78,000, little changed. The latest reading is the highest since August 2025. The latest month's figure is preliminary and will be revised.

An opening counts if, on the last business day of the month, a specific job exists, it could start within 30 days, and the employer is actively recruiting from outside. Openings are a snapshot of unfilled positions on one day, not hires and not online job ads. Jobs to be filled internally, by recall or by contractors are left out.

The information sector is an industry grouping of employers, not a list of occupations. It includes software publishers, telecommunications carriers, data processing and hosting, film, sound recording, broadcasting and libraries, whatever the job. Custom software and computer consulting firms are in professional services instead, and tech jobs at banks or retailers count in those industries. Private job-ad counts for tech occupations, such as CompTIA's or Dice's, measure something else.

The figure is seasonally adjusted, which removes the usual swings of the calendar. Each month's first estimate is preliminary and is revised the next month and again at the yearly benchmark, and revisions for this sector have been large: one month's first estimate was cut by 55,000 a month later. Moves smaller than that are described here as little changed. September and October 2025 were estimated with less data than usual because of the federal government shutdown and are left out of comparisons.

This series is one slice of hiring demand. The JOLTS Quits Rate comes from the same survey, the Indeed Job Postings Index counts online postings instead, and Continued Unemployment Claims tracks people collecting benefits. None of them is shown here to predict the others.