Market slice

Controller jobs

21,357 open Controller jobs. Median salary $119k, 6.1% remote, 1,330 posted this week.

Open roles

21,357

1,330 new this week

Median salary

$119k

2.9% disclose pay

Remote share

6.1%

of all openings

Median age of posting

33d

36.3% older than 60d

Freshness

How old these postings are

just posted33d median90d+

Age of posting	Share
Posted in the last 7 days	12.3%
Median age	33 days
Older than 60 days	36.3%

Age counts days since the employer published the posting. Around a third of sources publish only a coarse date such as “30+ days ago”, so the older end of this distribution is less precise than the recent end. It is the most-cited signal that a role may not be actively filled — a signal, not a verdict.

Pay

Salary distribution

$54k$206k

Based on 619 postings that disclose pay — 2.9% of this slice.

Fewer than one posting in six publishes a range here, and the ones that do are not a random sample. Treat these figures as indicative of the disclosing minority, not of the market.

Percentile	Salary
25th	$94,000
Median	$119,000
75th	$147,500
90th	$181,000

Demand

Who is hiring and what they ask for

Top companies

2,008

1,858

1,709

1,538

1,388

1,239

1,089

940

Top technologies

72.0%

65.8%

59.6%

53.4%

47.2%

41.0%

34.8%

28.6%

Most-asked skills

Technical writing

58.0%

Vendor management

52.6%

Communication

47.2%

Incident response

41.8%

Budgeting

36.4%

Cross-functional leadership

31.0%

Distributed systems

25.6%

Forecasting

20.2%

Composition

How the market splits

Work arrangement

Remote

6.1%

Hybrid

31.6%

In Person

62.3%

Top locations

United States

34.0%

Canada

30.4%

United Kingdom

26.8%

Ireland

23.2%

Germany

19.6%

France

16.0%

Netherlands

12.4%

Spain

8.8%

Employers

6,621

hiring in this slice

Posted last 7d

12.3%

of the cohort

Salary disclosed

2.9%

Brightline Retail · Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Not disclosed

In Person Juniorretail Junior 38d ago

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FAQ

Questions people ask

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The remote share tile shows what percentage of current openings are advertised as remote.

Figures cover 21,357 postings collected from public company career pages and applicant tracking systems, last recomputed 2026-09-02. “Posted N days ago” counts from the date the employer published the listing, not from when we first saw it. A posting that has been up for months is a common sign it is not being actively filled — though a long-lived listing is a signal, not a verdict. How we measure this →

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