Context
Seasonality
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Historically favorable. Contextual pattern only; not a forecast.
MARKET SIGNAL / MANUAL V1
Design Job Market
A lightweight pulse on hiring demand, competition, and seasonality for Product Designers.
Relative demand
Jobs Available Index
68
Improving
Higher values indicate stronger relative demand for Product Design roles.
Candidate-side pressure
Competitive Market Pressure
74
Elevated
Higher values indicate a more competitive market for each available role.
Current values are sample/manual V1 data while the data pipeline is being validated.
How to read these signals
Seasonality
Uses historical hiring patterns to show where the current month typically sits within the annual hiring cycle. Seasonality provides context, not a prediction.
Jobs Available Index
A normalized measure of hiring demand derived from permitted job-market and public labor data. It reflects relative movement in available Product Design opportunities rather than claiming to count every open role.
These indexes describe relative market conditions, not exact job or applicant totals.
Methodology & sources
Planned sources include BLS / JOLTS, permitted public job APIs, and normalized historical observations. Commercial job sites are not scraped.
Job Boards
Continue to the existing collection of design job boards and resources.