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Research ยท October 2026 edition

Open Robot Training Jobs, Counted Weekly

In the period 1 Oct 2026 to 31 Oct 2026, robot training openings at employers followed throughout moved up 1.6% (index 101.6); 75 new roles went up in the latest week, and the posted median was $27/hr.

Read the month's story: Robot Training Jobs in October 2026: The Month in Data

Not final yet. The month has ended, yet stragglers in the data may still land up to 3 Nov 2026; after that the edition is locked permanently.

Period
1 Oct 2026 to 31 Oct 2026
31 days, UTC
Calculated
1 Nov 2026, 06:30 UTC
Settles when locked
Where it comes from
Every day this site reads the public job boards of the robot training employers and programs it follows. Apply clicks come from visitors on RobotTraining.jobs.
Method
Revision 1. Terms defined
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What the data shows

  1. 1

    Across the 58 employers followed throughout, open roles moved up 1.6%: roughly 717 in the week of 5 Oct 2026, 728 by the week of 19 Oct 2026.

    Figure 2
  2. 2

    Over the latest week, employers posted roughly 75 new roles per week, compared with 8 per week in the preceding week (+837.5%).

    Figure 3
  3. 3

    Between the opening and closing weeks, the posted median for open roles went from $28/hr to $27/hr.

    Figure 4
  4. 4

    Weekly apply clicks per open role shifted from 0.11 (week of 5 Oct 2026) to 0.11 (week of 19 Oct 2026), reflecting changes both in the roles on offer and in the site's readership.

    Figure 5

Figure 1

The index at a glance

What changed from the opening week to the closing week?

MeasureWeek of 5 Oct 2026Week of 19 Oct 2026Change
Open roles (fixed panel)717728+1.6%
Open roles (all tracked employers)7301,076+47.4%
New listings in the week4775+59.6%
Removed in the week1827+50.0%
Median advertised rate$28/hr$27/hr-3.6%
Apply clicks per open role0.110.11+1.7%

Base: The earliest and latest full weeks within 1 Oct 2026 to 31 Oct 2026.

Open roles average the days of each week. The median rate and the share of roles with a stated rate are taken as each week begins.

Credit: RobotTraining.jobs Research, Open Robot Training Jobs, Counted Weekly, October 2026 edition.

Figure 2

Open roles, week by week

Are there more or fewer robot training openings than before?

WeekOpen roles (fixed panel)Index
1 to 4 OctPartial week
698
97.4698
5 to 11 Oct
717
100.0730
12 to 18 Oct
717
100.1895
19 to 25 Oct
728
101.61,076
26 to 31 OctPartial week
728
101.61,142

Base: Mean daily open roles per week for the fixed panel (the 58 employers followed since 1 Oct 2026), 1 Oct 2026 to 31 Oct 2026.

The index sets the panel's open roles in the week of 5 Oct 2026 to 100. Employers picked up after that show only in the final column, so a newcomer joining is never mistaken for more hiring.

Weeks clipped by the window edge carry the dates they cover and are flagged as partial.

Credit: RobotTraining.jobs Research, Open Robot Training Jobs, Counted Weekly, October 2026 edition.

Figure 3

Weekly postings added and taken down

Each week, how many robot training postings go up and how many come off?

WeekNew listingsRemoved
1 to 4 OctPartial week
8
21
5 to 11 Oct
47
18
12 to 18 Oct
8
35
19 to 25 Oct
75
27
26 to 31 OctPartial week
37
101

Base: Postings on employer job boards, 1 Oct 2026 to 31 Oct 2026, grouped into ISO weeks (Monday to Sunday, UTC).

Postings already up during an employer's first tracked week (its back catalogue) are left out of new listings.

Weeks clipped by the window edge carry the dates they cover and are flagged as partial.

Credit: RobotTraining.jobs Research, Open Robot Training Jobs, Counted Weekly, October 2026 edition.

Figure 4

Weekly median of posted rates

Are robot training pay rates on the move?

WeekMedian advertised rateRoles stating a rate
1 to 4 OctPartial week
$28
15.2%0.7%
5 to 11 Oct
$28
14.3%0.9%
12 to 18 Oct
$27
16.5%0.5%
19 to 25 Oct
$27
25.4%0.3%
26 to 31 OctPartial week
$27
29.0%0.4%

Base: Priced roles live as each week began, 1 Oct 2026 to 31 Oct 2026.

Changes in which roles are open move the median alongside actual rate changes.

Weeks clipped by the window edge carry the dates they cover and are flagged as partial.

Credit: RobotTraining.jobs Research, Open Robot Training Jobs, Counted Weekly, October 2026 edition.

Figure 5

Weekly apply clicks per opening

Are more or fewer people going after each opening?

WeekClicks per open role
1 to 4 OctPartial week
0.14
56
5 to 11 Oct
0.11
80
12 to 18 Oct
0.04
40
19 to 25 Oct
0.11
120
26 to 31 OctPartial week
0.18
174

Base: Clicks on Apply for a particular role on RobotTraining.jobs, 1 Oct 2026 to 31 Oct 2026, divided by that week's average open roles.

Growth in RobotTraining.jobs's own readership lifts this line as much as interest in the work does, so compare weeks with each other and do not treat it as a market-wide total.

Weeks clipped by the window edge carry the dates they cover and are flagged as partial.

Credit: RobotTraining.jobs Research, Open Robot Training Jobs, Counted Weekly, October 2026 edition.

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How it was measured

Every day this site reads the public job boards of the robot training employers and programs it follows. Apply clicks come from visitors on RobotTraining.jobs. A single database query produces each figure for the window shown, and the live page and every monthly edition run that identical query. The note under each figure gives its base.

Fixed panel
Only employers this site already followed when the window began. Tracking their roles alone keeps a newly added employer from looking like market growth.
Index
Average open roles across the panel in a given week, over the base week's average, multiplied by 100.
Open role
On a given day, a role that has been posted and still shows in the employer's feed.
New listing
A role seen for the first time during the window, at an employer this site was already following the week before. Whatever an employer has up in its first tracked week is back catalogue and does not count as new.
Removed listing
A role that dropped out of its employer's feed within the window.
Advertised pay
The hourly rate a listing gives, using the midpoint when it gives a range. A median appears only when 3 or more roles state a rate, and the middle half spans the 25th to the 75th percentile.
Weekly clicks per open role
Apply clicks made on RobotTraining.jobs, over the total days the roles stayed open, multiplied by 7.
Window
Live page: the twelve most recent full ISO weeks (Monday to Sunday, UTC), starting no earlier than the week of 14 Sep 2026. Edition: the weeks inside one calendar month.

Limits of this data

  • Hiring that happens off public job boards is invisible here, and some data-collection programs sign people up inside an app instead of posting a job.
  • A posting does not equal a hire. Certain employers leave evergreen roles up for months, and others post the same role once per city or country.
  • Apply clicks reflect what interests people using RobotTraining.jobs, and roles placed higher on the page collect more of them.
  • This dataset's job boards were first read on 12 Sep 2026, so the index does not reach back further than the week of 14 Sep 2026.

Collection and classification of listings are explained on the methodology page. Freshness, completeness and consistency are tested daily in the data quality report.

Monthly editions

The live index spans the 12 most recent full weeks (none earlier than 14 Sep 2026, when this dataset's weekly series begins) and rolls forward each Monday. Every finished month also gets its own edition, locked two days after month end, so a number quoted from it stays fixed.

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Citation

RobotTraining.jobs (2026). Open Robot Training Jobs, Counted Weekly, October 2026 edition. https://robottraining.jobs/research/robot-training-jobs-index/2026-10

BibTeX

@misc{robottrainingjobs_robot_training_jobs_index_2026_10,
  author = {{RobotTraining.jobs}},
  title = {Open Robot Training Jobs, Counted Weekly, October 2026 edition},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://robottraining.jobs/research/robot-training-jobs-index/2026-10}},
}
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