5 job search engines and professional networks compared (September 2026)
Job aggregators are job search engines and professional networks that collect vacancies from job boards, career pages and employers in one place - for example LinkedIn, XING, Jora, Jobrapido and Jobsora. Some also host jobs posted directly by employers. They offer the widest reach per source, at the price of more overlap with other sources.
Techmap collects 5 job aggregators. In September 2026 they delivered 3.4M new job postings from 559.2K active companies in 120 countries, led by Germany, the United States, Australia and India.
New job postings and active companies (companies with at least one new posting) in September 2026, and the largest countries by share of each portal's located postings. Click a portal for its monthly history and country breakdown.
 LinkedIn | 1.9M | 365.5K | 115 | 10% 6% 6% |
 JobRapido | 884.4K | 65.3K | 1 | 100% |
 XING | 415.5K | 49.7K | 42 | 91% 6% 3% |
 Jobsora | 126.6K | 40.7K | 32 | 4% 4% 4% |
 Jora | 108.7K | 37.9K | 6 | 60% 11% 10% |
Where the postings of all job aggregators are located in September 2026, the job aggregator with the most postings in each country, and the job aggregators whose largest market that country is.
| Germany | 39.7% | 1.4M | JobRapido | JobRapido, XING |
| United States | 5.7% | 193.5K | ||
| Australia | 3.7% | 127.9K | Jora | Jora |
| India | 3.5% | 121.1K | ||
| United Kingdom | 3.4% | 117.6K | ||
| Brazil | 2.9% | 97.6K | ||
| France | 2.7% | 93.7K | ||
| Canada | 2.6% | 89.4K | ||
| China | 2.4% | 81.5K | ||
| Netherlands | 1.9% | 65.1K | ||
| Switzerland | 1.8% | 62.0K | ||
| Spain | 1.7% | 58.5K |
Who runs each job aggregator, where it is based and what its postings in September 2026 look like.
LinkedInLinkedIn, headquartered in Sunnyvale, USA, is a global professional network featuring job postings from employers and recruiters across all industries and countries.
JobRapidoJobrapido, headquartered in Milan, Italy, is a global online job search engine, that aggregates and lists millions of job opportunities for job seekers.
XINGXing, headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, is a professional network for the DACH region featuring job postings from employers, recruiters, and partner job boards.
JobsoraJobsora, headquartered in Sofia, Bulgaria, is a global job search engine aggregating listings from employers, job boards, and recruitment agencies across multiple countries.
JoraJora, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, is a global job aggregator pulling postings from job boards, agencies, and company career sites across multiple countries.
Aggregators show the full breadth of jobs in a market and are a benchmark for your own coverage. For backfilling, prefer the original source where possible - ATS career pages or the employment office - and use aggregator data to fill the remaining gaps.
Because aggregators repeat jobs from other portals, use the duplicate flag in Techmap's data to import each vacancy only once.
Professional networks cover companies of every size, including many that post nowhere else, which makes them valuable for counting hiring companies, tracking competitors and finding new accounts. Combine them with career page data to confirm signals at the employer source.
Most applicant tracking systems can push jobs to the large aggregators and networks. Compare the ATS themselves on the ATS career pages hub.
A job aggregator is a job search engine or professional network that collects vacancies from job boards, career pages and employers in one place, such as LinkedIn, XING, Jora, Jobrapido or Jobsora.
In September 2026, Techmap collected 3.4M new job postings from 5 job aggregators, from 559.2K active companies in 120 countries.
By new postings in September 2026: LinkedIn, JobRapido, XING, Jobsora and Jora.
Yes, partly - aggregators republish jobs from boards and career pages. Techmap flags likely duplicates so each vacancy can be counted or imported once.
For the broadest view of a market and of hiring companies, and to fill gaps that career pages, job boards and employment offices do not cover.
Through the Techmap Job Postings API (free plan with 1,000 job postings per month), the RSS feed API for job boards, or hourly data feeds and historical datasets per country on AWS Data Exchange.
All postings are normalized into one schema and can be filtered by source portal: test them with the Job Postings API (free plan with 1,000 job postings per month), backfill a job board with the RSS feeds, or load hourly data feeds and historical datasets per country from AWS Data Exchange.
Other portal types: ATS Career Pages · Employment Offices · Job Boards - or see all portals and coverage by country.