Short answer: about one in five. Of 36,205 live job postings that state a workplace type, from 902 employers in October 2026, 22.3% were fully remote, 27.5% hybrid and 50.2% on-site. In the US alone, remote falls to 18.8% and on-site rises to 54.7%.
Remote work is least available at the start of a career. Only 5.4% of internships and 12.1% of entry-level postings are remote. Among hybrid postings that say how many office days they expect, 68% say three.
Key findings
- Half of postings are on-site. 50.2% on-site, 27.5% hybrid, 22.3% remote, across 36,205 postings.
- The US is more on-site than elsewhere. US postings are 54.7% on-site and 18.8% remote. Postings outside the US are 42.0% on-site and 28.6% remote.
- Sales is the most remote job family at 37.5%. Software and hardware engineering is among the least, at 13.9%, though a third of engineering postings (32.8%) are hybrid.
- Remote is a senior privilege. 5.4% of internships and 12.1% of entry-level postings are remote, against 22.4% of senior postings.
- Hybrid usually means three days. Of the hybrid postings that state a number, 67.6% ask for three days a week in the office and 19.9% ask for four.
Remote share by job family
| Job family | Postings | On-site | Hybrid | Remote |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sales and partnerships | 2,802 | 34.2% | 28.2% | |
| Marketing and content | 1,174 | 33.6% | 33.0% | |
| Customer success and support | 969 | 35.7% | 32.0% | |
| Product and program management | 1,007 | 36.8% | 37.3% | |
| All other roles | 10,675 | 55.6% | 20.0% | |
| Data, analytics and ML | 5,767 | 52.0% | 24.6% | |
| People, HR and recruiting | 633 | 45.5% | 31.3% | |
| Design and research | 722 | 45.7% | 35.3% | |
| Operations, finance and legal | 2,854 | 50.0% | 33.4% | |
| Software and hardware engineering | 9,602 | 53.4% | 32.8% |
The roles that are easiest to do from anywhere, such as selling, marketing and supporting customers, are remote about a third of the time. Engineering is the exception. Only 13.9% of engineering postings are remote, and more of them are hybrid (32.8%) than remote.
Remote share by seniority
| Seniority | Postings | On-site | Hybrid | Remote |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Internship | 931 | 74.5% | 20.1% | |
| Entry level / new grad | 1,165 | 61.1% | 26.8% | |
| Mid level or unspecified | 19,152 | 55.1% | 21.3% | |
| Senior, staff, lead and above | 14,957 | 41.6% | 36.0% |
Three in four internships are on-site. The reason employers usually give is that early-career hires learn faster sitting next to experienced colleagues. If you're early in your career and only searching "remote", you are searching about 12% of the entry-level market.
How many office days "hybrid" means
| In-office requirement | Share of those postings |
|---|---|
| 1 day a week | |
| 2 days a week | |
| 3 days a week | |
| 4 days a week | |
| 5 days a week |
Most hybrid postings don't name a number. The ones that do have settled on three days a week, and one in five ask for four. Ask in the first recruiter call if a posting doesn't say. A "hybrid" role that turns out to be four days a week is a common mismatch.
"Remote" rarely means anywhere
A remote posting is usually limited to one country, and often to a list of states or time zones, for tax and employment-law reasons. Application forms back this up: 31.5% of employers ask whether you'll relocate or work on-site, and 24.6% ask where you live. Our guide to what US and Canadian employers screen for on remote applications covers the location, time-zone and eligibility questions that filter these roles.
Methodology
Source. Public job-board APIs of Lever and Ashby, collected on 12 October 2026, the same snapshot as our application-form study. Both systems carry a workplace-type field (on-site, hybrid or remote) that the employer sets on each posting. 36,205 postings at 902 employers had one. Greenhouse has no such field, so its postings are excluded here.
Job family and seniority come from keywords in the job title. A title matching no family counts as "all other roles".
Office days. Read from hybrid postings' descriptions, from phrases such as "three days a week in the office" or "in office 4 days per week". Only 9.8% of hybrid postings state a number, so the day counts describe those postings, not all hybrid roles.
Limitations. The sample leans toward US technology employers that hire early-career staff, because employer names came from SimplifyJobs' public New-Grad and Internship lists. Workday and iCIMS, which dominate large enterprises, publish no equivalent public API, so they are not included. Postings are counted as listed. A role posted in several cities counts once per posting.
Data: workplace type by segment (CSV), all figures (JSON). Free to reuse with attribution (CC BY 4.0).
Frequently asked questions
What percentage of jobs are remote in 2026?
About one in five. Of 36,205 job postings that state a workplace type (October 2026, mostly US tech employers), 22.3% were fully remote, 27.5% hybrid and 50.2% on-site. In the US alone, 18.8% were remote.
Which jobs are most likely to be remote?
Sales (37.5% remote), marketing (33.4%) and customer success (32.3%). Software engineering was among the least remote at 13.9%.
How many days a week is a hybrid job?
Usually three. Among hybrid postings that state a number, 67.6% require three days a week in the office and 19.9% require four.
Are entry-level jobs remote?
Rarely. 12.1% of entry-level postings and 5.4% of internships were fully remote, against 22.4% of senior postings.
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