The AIRecruiter.co Talent Market Index

A free, openly licensed, primary-sourced dataset on how the world hires: 113 recruiting, hiring and HR-technology statistics, each traced to a named primary source (201 sources cited across the Index), plus 6 long-run U.S. labor-market trackers built from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data and the 16 research reports that use the figures. Every statistic carries an as-of date, its primary source (publisher, title, URL, year) and a confidence tier stating how the figure was established: verified (52: a named primary study or official statistic), reported (48: stated by a credible source whose underlying study cannot be fully resolved, including many vendor surveys) or modeled (13: an estimate or projection). A figure with no resolvable primary source is not published. Files: talent-market-index.csv (one row per statistic, with source and report columns), index.json (statistics, source registry, trackers, reports and topics), README.md (column dictionary, collection method, limitations), CITATION.cff and LICENSE. Data as of 2026-10-31. This archive is a dated snapshot. The continuously updated Index is at https://airecruiter.co/data, with the method at https://airecruiter.co/methodology; the same files are mirrored at github.com/herohunt-ai/talent-market-index. Disclosure: AIRecruiter.co is a talent-market research publication published by HeroHunt.ai (HeroHunt B.V., Amsterdam), which makes AI recruiting software. Vendor claims and projections in the dataset are labeled reported or modeled rather than presented as measured fact.