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Roles with the oldest open postings

Name: Roles with the oldest open postings
Creator: Hiring Index
License: https://hiringindex.org/legal/terms

Median age of an open posting, by role, counted from the date the employer published it. A listing that has been up for months is the most reported sign that a role is not being actively filled.

#	Role	Median age	Openings	New this week
1	UI Designer	95d	17,291	628
2	Content Marketing Manager	95d	25,358	1,906
3	HR Business Partner	95d	24,312	1,757
4	Mechanical Engineer	95d	16,619	524
5	Platform Engineer	94d	38,352	1,118
6	Product Designer	94d	28,541	2,319
7	Sales Manager	94d	16,752	534
8	Truck Driver	94d	95,919	7,681
9	SDR	91d	35,151	3,152
10	Site Reliability Engineer	90d	38,673	1,680
11	Recruiter	90d	8,667	754
12	Retail Merchandiser	89d	29,009	676
13	Executive Assistant	88d	11,495	857
14	Scrum Master	87d	13,327	276
15	Assistant Manager	87d	7,607	282
16	Account Executive	86d	36,923	1,712
17	Therapist / Counselor	85d	14,899	424
18	Electrician	85d	38,888	3,153
19	Logistics Coordinator	83d	13,939	528
20	Paralegal	82d	33,741	1,028
21	Data Analyst	81d	12,664	609
22	Technical Support Engineer	81d	27,593	2,405
23	Warehouse Associate	81d	7,544	459
24	Security Engineer	80d	21,563	1,239
25	SEO Specialist	80d	42,147	2,724
26	Embedded Engineer	79d	26,861	2,287
27	Backend Engineer	78d	8,361	646
28	Business Analyst	78d	30,754	1,190
29	Registered Nurse	77d	38,089	837
30	BI Analyst	75d	9,540	401

Age is counted from the publication date the employer set, not from when we first indexed the listing. A long-lived posting is a signal, not a verdict — some roles genuinely take months to fill.