Dice market snapshot

The United States tech job market as dice.com counts it. One request, about 21 rows, and every count says what you are allowed to do with it.

dice.com's counts do four different things

On 16 September 2026 the board held 111,699 adverts. Its own facet counts added up like this:

• employerType summed to 111,700. It splits the board cleanly.
• employmentType summed to 119,226, over by 7,527, because an advert can be tagged full time and contract at once.
• workplaceTypes summed to 110,891, short by 808, because some adverts carry no workplace type at all.
• postedDate summed to 33,215, and that number means nothing. Today sits inside Last 3 Days, which sits inside Last 7 Days.

Nothing on the page marks any of this. Four groups of counts that look identical, and only one of them can be charted as a breakdown of the board.

Every row carries sumsToTheSearchTotal, anAdvertCanHaveMoreThanOne, doesNotCoverEveryAdvert and valuesAreNestedNotSeparate, so you can tell which you have before you add anything up.

Two counts you cannot filter on

dice.com publishes isRemote with 10,706 adverts and workFromHomeAvailability with 450. Both come with counts. Send either one as a filter and the board comes back unfiltered, all 111,699 adverts, with no error.

workplaceTypes is the one that works. cannotBeFilteredOn marks the other two.

The 450 and the 10,706 are not a mistake in one of them either. They count different things, on the same board, on the same day.

Two totals

The board reports totalResults of 111,699 and totalJobCount of 122,744 on the same response. Both are in the run summary. The facet counts are drawn against the first one, which was checked by adding them up rather than assumed.

For a time series

Every row is stamped with takenAt, searchUrl and the filters in force, so snapshots of the whole country and of one city sit in the same table without merging.

A facet that falls to zero keeps its row with a count of 0. A facet dice.com stops publishing has no row. A failed run writes nothing rather than rows of zero, so a gap in the series looks like a gap.

What it costs

$0.00001 per run and $0.00001 per row. A snapshot of the whole board is one request and about 21 rows, and that does not grow as the board grows, because the counts are published rather than counted.

Asking for a place costs one extra request. dice.com answers a place it cannot resolve with the whole country, so this run checks the total against the unfiltered board and stops rather than describing the United States under a label that says Austin.

No keyword search

dice.com's robots.txt disallows /jobs?q*, so this Actor never sends a keyword. Narrow the snapshot with place, contract type, workplace, who is advertising, posted date or visa sponsorship.