The AI Training Jobs Index

Method and definitions

The public job boards of the AI training platforms this site tracks, read every hour. Apply clicks are made on AITraining.jobs. Every figure is computed by one database query over the window shown, the same query for the live report and for every edition. Each figure states its sample beneath it.

Fixed panel

The platforms already tracked when the window opens. The index follows their open roles, so a platform added later never reads as market growth.

Index

The panel's average open roles in a week, divided by the same in the base week, times 100.

Open role

A role listed by a given day and still in its platform's feed that day.

New listing

A role that first appeared during the window on a platform already tracked before that week. A platform's first week in this dataset is its back catalogue and is not counted as new. When this site changes how it reads a platform's board (a cap lifted, a page kind or department read too, a relevance rule changed), the roles that came into view or left it from that change to the end of its week are this site's reading, not the platform's hiring: they are not new listings or removals, and changes in open roles are measured like for like across it. Each platform's report says what changed.

Removed listing

A role that left its platform's feed during the window, other than with a change in how this site reads the board (see New listing).

Advertised pay

The hourly figure a posting states (the middle of a stated range), counted once per distinct rate as the job board counts it. The median and typical pay are the board's: typical pay runs from the 25th percentile of what roles pay (the middle of each advertised range) to the 90th-percentile advertised ceiling, stated from 3 distinct rates.

Clicks per open role a week

Apply clicks on AITraining.jobs divided by the days the roles were open, times 7.

Window

Live: the last twelve complete ISO weeks (Monday to Sunday, UTC), from the week of 3 Aug 2026 at the earliest. Edition: the weeks of one calendar month.

What this data cannot tell you

• Platforms that recruit without a public job board are not counted. Several large ones invite workers to projects directly.
• A listing is not a hire. Some platforms keep evergreen roles open for months, and some post one listing per language or country.
• Apply clicks measure interest among the people who use AITraining.jobs, and what is shown first gets clicked more.
• Before 3 Aug 2026 this dataset's feeds were still being added and tuned, so the index does not reach back further.

How the job feeds are read and roles are classified: site methodology. How fresh, complete and consistent the data is, checked every day: data quality and coverage.

Editions

The live report covers the last 12 complete weeks (from 3 Aug 2026 at the earliest) and moves on every Monday. Each complete month is also published as an edition, frozen two days after the month ends, so a figure you cite from an edition never moves.

• Live dataLast 12 complete weeks
• October 2026 edition (this page)Frozen 11 Nov 2026
• September 2026 editionFreezes on first reading
• August 2026 editionFreezes on first reading

Cite and reuse

Free to quote, chart and republish under CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) with a link to this page. This edition is frozen, so its figures will read the same later.

@misc{aitrainingjobs_ai_training_jobs_index_2026_10,
  author = {{AITraining.jobs}},
  title = {The AI Training Jobs Index, October 2026 edition},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://cyberjobs.cc/research/ai-training-jobs-index/2026-10}},
}

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