The Hiring Pulse, 12 October 2026: Commercial real estate leads weekly vacancy reductions

Daily brief, October 12, 2026

Global openings held steady on the stable-panel index as steep retrenchments at property firms offset modest national gains in North America and Latin America.

• Open roles in Peru rose 7.5% like for like in a day to 3,963 listings on the Arihaan crawl, lifted by an addition of 215 postings at Verisure.
• Property adviser JLL cut 1,313 postings over the week, a 38.7% like-for-like reduction to 2,098 vacancies, while construction firm ICON lowered openings by 82.4% to 176.
• The global stable-panel openings index eased 0.04 points on Monday to 98.55, leaving it up 0.7 points over seven days.
• Median advertised annual pay in the United Kingdom slipped 2.7% across comparable postings to $48,183, whereas Spain recorded a 5.2% increase to $42,094.
• According to the BLS Current Employment Statistics survey, US nonfarm payrolls rose by 29,000 in September following an increase of 133,000 in August.

Chart of the day

The chart displays the employers reporting the largest like-for-like drops in open jobs between 5 October and 12 October 2026.

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