This Week in Matching: Saved-Search Hit Rates Across the Board
Skillsoft Talent research desk · July 7, 2026
“Hit rates rose for a third straight week across the watched role categories. Which searches fired most and where volume went quiet.”
Saved-search hit rates climbed for a third consecutive week, led by data engineering, DevOps, and technical account management. The median watched search fired 4.2 alerts over the week, up from 3.6 the week prior, and remote-first searches continued to outpace location-bound ones.
The quiet spots were entry-level generalist searches, where posting volume thinned for the second week running. Subscribers saw every match land by text as it happened, with the weekly digest in the dashboard rounding up anything missed.
The recap is a mirror, not a forecast. Next week's hit rates will print their own number.
Platform Engineer (Remote) (%)
The solid line is the monthly match-rate reading; the dashed line is the trailing average. Illustrative match telemetry.