How these numbers are produced

Every count on this site is measured from one pool of job postings, collected each morning and published the same day. This page states how that is done, and — more usefully — what the resulting figures cannot tell you.

Where the listings come from

Postings are collected once a morning from Israeli job boards, recruitment agencies and companies' own career pages. Nothing is written here: each listing is the employer's own advert, and every one links back to it.

The same posting often appears on several sources at once. Near-duplicates are folded together so a role advertised in three places is counted once, matched on the employer and the title rather than on the URL, because the same job carries a different URL on every board it appears on.

The window every figure is counted over

Search shows postings found in the last 30 days, and every figure published on the hiring index is counted over that same window. This is the single most important thing to know before quoting any number here: it is a count of what is currently open and visible, not of everything ever posted.

The window is why a figure on the index can always be checked. Click through from any count and you reach the search that produced it, showing the postings it counted. A number a reader cannot reproduce is one that reads as a claim rather than a measurement.

What counts as hi-tech

The sources hand over whatever they have, including roles well outside this site's subject. Postings whose title places them outside hi-tech and AI are filtered out of the published counts, and the role pages are narrowed further to the core technical domains.

A role is matched from the words in the posting's title, not from a category the source assigned it. Sources categorise inconsistently and a category chosen by a job board is a claim by that board; the title is what the employer actually wrote.

When a posting goes away

Apply links are re-checked continuously, and a posting whose link has gone dead is retired from the pool rather than left to age out. Everything else is removed 60 days after it was first seen.

A removed posting's page then answers "permanently gone" rather than "not found", so it leaves search engines and assistants quickly instead of lingering as a result that disappoints whoever clicks it. This is also why the pages worth citing here are the index and the guides rather than individual jobs: a job page is designed to expire, and the index is designed not to.

Why no salaries are published

Almost no Israeli hi-tech posting states what it pays — the share that does is published on the hiring index, and it is very small. Every salary table in this market is therefore built from something other than the ads: a survey panel, a recruiter's own placements, or an estimate.

Rather than produce another estimate, this site publishes the rate itself: how often employers state pay at all. It is a smaller claim than a salary table and it is one the postings can actually support.

What these numbers cannot tell you

A posting is not a job. One advert can represent several openings on the same team, and a team that is hiring quietly places no advert at all — so these counts measure advertised demand, which is a floor rather than a total.

Employer names are read from the adverts and the same company sometimes writes its name several ways; those are folded together where they can be recognised, and a spelling nobody has seen before is counted separately until it is.

Movement over a short period is mostly noise. The counts shift with what the sources published that week as much as with what the market did, which is why the index reports change over a month rather than day to day.

Corrections

If a figure here looks wrong, it may well be. Signed-in users can write from the Contact Us screen — say which page and which number, and it will be checked against the pool it came from.