Key findings
There is not enough data in this window to state findings.
Figure 1
Apply clicks by kind of work
Which kinds of AI training work do people apply to?
No data in this window.
Sample. 0 apply clicks on a specific role, from 1 Oct 2026 to 31 Oct 2026.
A further 0 clicks went to a platform's own sign-up page rather than to one role, so they have no kind of work and are not in this figure.
Roles applied to: distinct roles that received at least one of these clicks.
Source. AITraining.jobs Research, Applicant Demand for AI Training Work, October 2026 edition.
Figure 2
Applicant demand per open role, by kind of work
Which kinds of work are oversubscribed, and which are short of applicants?
No data in this window.
Sample. 0 apply clicks on 0 roles open at some point from 1 Oct 2026 to 31 Oct 2026.
Clicks per role a week = apply clicks / (days the kind's roles were open / 7). It measures competition for each opening, not the size of the market: a kind with few roles and steady interest reads high.
Index: the kind's rate divided by the rate across all open roles. 2.00x means twice the applicant interest of the average role. Click share and open-time share are the kind's share of all role clicks and of all open role-days.
No row with any open time is a small sample: the rates of the kinds of work differ so much that each reads on its own from its first open role-day.
Source. AITraining.jobs Research, Applicant Demand for AI Training Work, October 2026 edition.
Figure 3
Applicant demand by advertised hourly pay
Do higher-paying roles attract more applicants?
No data in this window.
Sample. 0 apply clicks on a specific role, from 1 Oct 2026 to 31 Oct 2026.
Pay is the hourly figure the posting advertises (the middle of a stated range). Roles paid per task or per project with no hourly figure are under 'No hourly rate stated'.
No row with any open time is a small sample: the rates of the pay bands differ so much that each reads on its own from its first open role-day.
Source. AITraining.jobs Research, Applicant Demand for AI Training Work, October 2026 edition.
Figure 4
Applicant demand by how long a role has been listed
How quickly does interest in a new role fade?
No data in this window.
Sample. 0 apply clicks on a specific role, from 1 Oct 2026 to 31 Oct 2026. A role's open days are split across the bands it passed through.
Age runs from the listing date the platform's job board states, or else from the day the role first appeared in the feed. Roles that came in with a platform's back catalogue and state no date are under 'Listing date unknown'.
AITraining.jobs ranks recently listed roles higher in its default order, which adds to the first-week figure.
No row with any open time is a small sample: the rates of the listing ages differ so much that each reads on its own from its first open role-day.
Source. AITraining.jobs Research, Applicant Demand for AI Training Work, October 2026 edition.
Figure 5
Applicant demand by who can apply
Do roles open worldwide draw more applicants than roles limited to some countries?
No data in this window.
Sample. 0 apply clicks on a specific role, from 1 Oct 2026 to 31 Oct 2026.
AITraining.jobs shows each visitor the roles open in their country first and hides roles their country cannot apply to unless they choose another country, so roles limited to listed countries are seen by fewer visitors.
No row with any open time is a small sample: the rates of the location rules differ so much that each reads on its own from its first open role-day.
Source. AITraining.jobs Research, Applicant Demand for AI Training Work, October 2026 edition.
Figure 6
How concentrated applicant attention is
Do apply clicks spread across many roles or pile onto a few?
| Roles | Share of apply clicks |
|---|---|
| Most-clicked 1% of roles | n/a |
| Most-clicked 5% | n/a |
| Most-clicked 10% | n/a |
| Most-clicked 20% | n/a |
Sample. 0 apply clicks on 0 roles open at some point from 1 Oct 2026 to 31 Oct 2026, the roles ranked by the clicks each received (roles with none included).
0% of these roles (0) received at least one apply click.
Source. AITraining.jobs Research, Applicant Demand for AI Training Work, October 2026 edition.
Figure 7
Apply clicks per week
Is applicant activity rising or falling?
| Week | Apply clicks |
|---|---|
| 1 to 4 OctPartial week | 0 |
| 5 to 11 Oct | 0 |
| 12 to 18 Oct | 0 |
| 19 to 25 Oct | 0 |
| 26 to 31 OctPartial week | 0 |
Sample. All human apply clicks on AITraining.jobs, 1 Oct 2026 to 31 Oct 2026, by ISO week (Monday to Sunday, UTC).
Weekly totals grow with AITraining.jobs's own audience as well as with the market. To compare kinds of work across weeks, read the shares in the next figure.
A week the month cuts is labelled with the days it covers and marked as partial.
Source. AITraining.jobs Research, Applicant Demand for AI Training Work, October 2026 edition.
Figure 8
Share of apply clicks by kind of work, week by week
Is interest shifting between kinds of work?
| Week | Other |
|---|---|
| 1 to 4 OctSmall sample | n/a |
| 5 to 11 OctSmall sample | n/a |
| 12 to 18 OctSmall sample | n/a |
| 19 to 25 OctSmall sample | n/a |
| 26 to 31 OctSmall sample | n/a |
Sample. Apply clicks on a specific role, 1 Oct 2026 to 31 Oct 2026, by ISO week. Each row adds up to 100% (rounded).
Columns are the six kinds of work with the most clicks over the whole period.
No row with any clicks is a small sample: the rows differ so much that each reads on its own from its first.
Source. AITraining.jobs Research, Applicant Demand for AI Training Work, October 2026 edition.
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Method and definitions
Apply clicks made on AITraining.jobs, joined to the role clicked and the days each role was open. 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.
- Apply click
- A click on an apply button on AITraining.jobs that opens a platform's application page. Made by a person: automated traffic is set aside as it is recorded. Counted per click, not per person.
- Role-level click
- An apply click on one specific role. Clicks on a platform's general sign-up link are platform-level and have no kind of work, pay or listing age.
- Open role-days
- For every role, the days of the window it was listed, summed. A role open the whole of a 28-day window adds 28.
- Clicks per open role a week
- Role-level apply clicks divided by open role-days, times 7.
- Demand index
- A group's clicks per open role a week divided by the same rate across all open roles. Above 1, the group's roles draw more applicant interest than the average role.
- Kind of work
- Each role is classified from its title and description into one of the twelve kinds of AI training work this site tracks, from AI evaluation and coding to multilingual and audio work. Every kind links to its own page.
- Listing date
- The date the platform's job board gives for the posting, or else the first day the role appeared in the feed. A role that arrived with a platform's back catalogue, or came into view with a change in how this site reads its board, and gives no date has no known listing date.
- Location rule
- Read from each posting's location text and, where that names no country, from what the posting's own description states: open worldwide, worldwide except listed countries, only listed countries, or no rule stated.
- Window
- Live: the last 28 complete days, in UTC. Edition: one calendar month, in UTC.
What this data cannot tell you
- Clicks measure interest among the people who use AITraining.jobs, not across the whole market.
- What is shown first gets clicked more. The default order ranks the roles people already apply to most for the attention they get, and roles at partner networks, higher (the order is explained on the methodology page), and each visitor sees the roles open in their country first.
- An apply click starts an application. It is not a submitted application, an acceptance or a hire.
- One person can click several roles, so the figures count clicks, not people.
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.
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- October 2026 edition (this page)Frozen 11 Nov 2026
- September 2026 editionFreezes on first reading
- August 2026 editionFreezes on first reading
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Citation
AITraining.jobs (2026). Applicant Demand for AI Training Work, October 2026 edition. https://cyberjobs.cc/research/applicant-demand/2026-10
BibTeX
@misc{aitrainingjobs_applicant_demand_2026_10,
author = {{AITraining.jobs}},
title = {Applicant Demand for AI Training Work, October 2026 edition},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://cyberjobs.cc/research/applicant-demand/2026-10}},
}More research
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