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Hiring broadened, and for the first time, concentration eased.

Active hiring rose from 117 roles across 21 companies to 121 roles across 23 companies. The top four employers now account for about 50% of openings, down from ~55% last week.

The Hiring Index increased from 160.5 to 171.5, while the Expansion Rate rose from 17.9% to 19.7%. The median roles per hiring company fell from 4.0 to 3.0, pointing to growth driven by participation rather than deeper posting per firm.

What Changed

The shift this week was not just more hiring, but redistribution.

More companies entered the market, while several mid-sized employers moved into the top tier. This was not a leader-driven expansion. It was a rebalancing of where demand sits.

  • 17 roles were added and 13 were removed, for a net gain of +4.

  • The top of the market is still led by Spellbook and CoLab, but the 3, 4 and 5 slots are now a tighter cluster across Kraken, PAL, and trophi.ai.

Most of the net gain came from the edge and the middle:

  • PAL Aerospace expanded from 6 roles to 9, adding more operational and aerospace-adjacent demand.

  • Avalon Holographics added two roles, including an FPGA posting that reinforces the applied hardware signal.

  • Milk Moovement, ClearRisk and HeyOrca joined the active set.

  • Kraken and Verafin each reduced or filled 3 postings.

  • Sequence Bio exited the active role set.

This was not a leader-driven expansion. It was a redistribution.

Market Structure

Hiring is larger than last week, but still uneven.

  • 121 active roles across 23 hiring companies

  • 13 scaling companies (3+ roles), up from 12

  • Top two share: 40 roles (~33%)

  • Top four share: 61 roles (~50%)

All net growth this week came from execution and support roles.

Core hiring (engineering, sales, product) held flat overall, while operations, customer success, and finance accounted for nearly all net new demand.

This is the clearest shift in the dataset so far: the market is expanding without deeper core hiring.

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What It Means

The market is widening without deepening.

More companies are hiring, but not at high volume. Participation is increasing faster than intensity.

Growth is shifting beyond core technical roles.

This week’s expansion came from execution and support capacity, not additional core hiring.

Entry-level demand remains structurally limited.

Only two roles are explicitly junior or internship level, which continues to shape accessibility into the market.

The ecosystem is diversifying.

Software still drives volume, but aerospace, hardware, and services are contributing more meaningfully to weekly growth.

Function Mix

Function

Current Roles

Prior Roles

Delta

Engineering

43

35

+8

Sales

25

29

-4

Operations

17

21

-4

Product & Design

6

9

-3

Marketing

8

8

0

Finance

7

6

+1

People & Legal

4

5

-1

Customer Success

11

4

+7

Engineering remains the largest function, but the most meaningful change came from customer success (+7).

This week’s growth did not come from deeper technical hiring, but from support and operational capacity.

Layer Breakdown

Layer

Change from Last Week

Market Concentation

Core (Engineering/Sales)

+0

60%

Execution (Ops, Marketing, Finance)

+3

26%

Support

+1

13%

Core still represents about three-fifths of demand, but:

All net growth this week came from execution and support layers.

This is the clearest signal in the dataset.

Company Insights

The mix is shifting: Software still drives volume, but this week’s expansion came from aerospace, hardware, and support-heavy hiring.

Notable Movers

Upside

  • PAL Aerospace: +3

  • Avalon Holographics: +2

New entrants

  • Milk Moovement

  • ClearRisk

  • HeyOrca

Declines

  • Verafin: -3

  • Kraken Robotics: -3

  • Sequence Bio: exited

Closing Signal

This is the first week where the market expanded without increasing core hiring intensity. Growth came from participation and support capacity, not from deeper demand at the top.

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Full Roles List

Avalon Holographics

Big Land Networks Ltd

BreatheSuite

ClearRisk

CoLab Software

Compusult Limited

Granville Biomedical Inc.

HeyOrca Inc

Kerby-Reid Inc.

Kraken Robotics

Milk Moovement

NDITIVE

PAL Aerospace

Pingram.io

Sequence Bio Inc.

SmartICE Monitoring & Information Inc.

Solace Power Inc.

Spellbook

Verafin Nasdaq Canada Inc.

Verlo Finance

Virtual Marine Inc.

Vish Limited

Vision33 Inc.

trophi.ai

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