Explore current junior opportunities and the share of entry-level and internship listings first observed on AdTechTalent from May to September 2026, with transparent coverage limits.
Is there still a way into AdTech? This report describes advertised opportunities collected by AdTechTalent, not completed hires or a census of the industry. Updated / current snapshot: . Historical cutoff (exclusive): 2026-09-16T09:06:32.248Z. All dates use UTC.
Active listings
4027
Published and not expired
Junior / entry-level
252
6.3% of active listings
Internships / training
96
Excluded from the junior headline
Companies with junior roles
60
348 combined junior + training roles
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Share of all unique listings first observed on AdTechTalent, including expired listings. Unknown seniority stays in the denominator. These are retained records; historical completeness is unverified.
● Junior / entry-level● Internships / training* Partial month · hollow point / dashed line
| 2026 cohort (UTC) | Total | Junior | Internships | Unknown | Companies | Junior share | Internship share | Classified | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May — partial coverage | 2098 | 147 | 60 | 0 | 63 | 7.0% | 2.9% | 100.0% | Retained records; completeness unverified |
| June | 1718 | 149 | 63 | 0 | 73 | 8.7% | 3.7% | 100.0% | Retained records; completeness unverified |
| July | 1571 | 87 | 43 | 0 | 70 | 5.5% | 2.7% | 100.0% | Retained records; completeness unverified |
| August | 1199 | 87 | 22 | 0 | 75 | 7.3% | 1.8% | 100.0% | Retained records; completeness unverified |
| September — month to date | 491 | 38 | 30 |
First retained observation: 2026-05-05T14:24:30.301Z. May lacks coverage before that date. A month with no verified observations is unavailable, not zero. September is month to date only while the cutoff falls within September; its raw volume is never compared with a full month or extrapolated.
Large observation batches can contain older advertisements. The largest retained batches with ads dated more than seven days earlier are:
These are import signals, not proof of an import. Scrapers and represented companies changed over time. No verified continuous company panel or complete junior snapshots exist, so no stable-panel or market-wide trend is asserted. Seniority values are the currently retained labels, not versioned labels as they appeared each month.
Ordered by junior volume. Share uses all active listings in each category; small categories should not be described as the best route into the industry.
| Category | Active | Junior | Junior share | Internships | Junior opportunities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ad Ops | 391 | 63 | 16.1% | 12 | |
| Other | 458 | 52 | 11.4% | 15 | |
| Sales | 839 | 41 | 4.9% | 14 | |
| Engineering | 851 | 33 | 3.9% | 12 | |
| Programmatic | 379 | 21 | 5.5% | 2 | |
| Data Science | 325 | 14 | 4.3% | 10 | |
| Marketing | 233 | 14 | 6.0% | 14 | |
| Product | 445 | 6 | 1.3% | 5 | |
| Marketing | 63 | 5 | 7.9% | 4 | |
| business development | 4 | 3 | 75.0% | 0 | |
| finance | 21 | 0 | 0.0% | 3 | |
| commercial | 7 | 0 | 0.0% | 5 | |
| customer success | 7 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | |
| client services | 2 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | |
| operations | 1 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | |
| security | 1 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 |
Top eight by junior volume, then total listings. No percentage ranking or minimum-size claim. Links open specific active junior listings.
| Company | Active | Junior | Junior share | Internships | Junior opportunities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Merkle | 252 | 17 | 6.7% | 3 | |
| Epsilon | 220 | 17 | 7.7% | 2 | |
| Teads | 127 | 14 | 11.0% | 6 | |
| RTB House | 135 | 13 | 9.6% | 0 | |
| Nexxen | 112 | 13 | 11.6% | 0 | |
| Adsmurai | 54 | 13 | 24.1% | 8 | |
| Verve | 70 | 10 | 14.3% | 0 | |
| Samba TV | 70 | 9 | 12.9% | 1 |
Top eight by junior volume. Canonical city / country labels follow Jobs by City normalization. A multi-city listing can contribute to several cities, once per city, but only once to the global total. Locations without a structured city are excluded here.
| City | Active | Junior | Junior share | Internships | Junior opportunities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York, US | 832 | 40 | 4.8% | 4 | |
| Barcelona, Spain | 158 | 22 | 13.9% | 28 | |
| Chicago, United States | 237 | 15 | 6.3% | 5 | |
| Madrid, Spain | 51 | 11 | 21.6% | 10 | |
| London, United Kingdom | 198 | 10 | 5.1% | 1 | |
| Los Angeles, United States | 140 | 10 | 7.1% | 0 | |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 86 | 10 | 11.6% | 0 | |
| Bengaluru, India | 264 | 7 | 2.7% | 1 |
Entry-level-labelled roles requiring 3+ years: 2 / 249 (0.8%). Interpretable coverage: 249 / 252 (98.8%).
| Minimum experience signal | Junior listings | Share of all junior |
|---|---|---|
| Explicit no experience / minimum 0 years | 246 | 97.6% |
| Minimum 1–2 years | 1 | 0.4% |
| Minimum 3+ years | 2 | 0.8% |
| Unspecified, uninterpretable or preferred-only | 3 | 1.2% |
The existing normalized experience field is not a definitive reading of mandatory requirements. Bare ranges do not distinguish required from preferred experience; explicitly preferred values are excluded from the interpretable denominator. Missing is never zero, ranges retain their minimum and original text, and multiple technology requirements are not added together. Original field values present: 0-2; 3-5; 2-4.
Descriptive comparison with other known seniorities; internships and unknown seniority are excluded from the comparison group. Differences do not establish causation.
| Arrangement | Junior count / denominator | Junior share | Other known count / denominator | Other known share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Remote | 43 / 252 | 17.1% | 817 / 3679 | 22.2% |
| Hybrid | 110 / 252 | 43.7% | 1331 / 3679 | 36.2% |
| On-site | 99 / 252 | 39.3% | 1530 / 3679 | 41.6% |
| Unknown | 0 / 252 | 0.0% | 1 / 3679 | 0.0% |
Existing skill aliases and exclusions, one mention per skill per listing. Shares use all 252 junior listings. Links open matching junior examples; the existing keyword search cannot exactly reproduce the normalized skill cohort.
| Skill | Junior listings | Share of junior | Matching opportunities |
|---|---|---|---|
| Excel | 92 | 36.5% | |
| SQL | 49 | 19.4% | |
| Python | 33 | 13.1% | |
| Salesforce | 30 | 11.9% | |
| PowerPoint | 22 | 8.7% | |
| Java | 19 | 7.5% | |
| DSP | 18 |
73 / 252 junior listings publish at least one positive salary bound (29.0%).
Insufficient comparable salary data
A comparison requires at least 10 closed salary ranges with a verified common country, currency, annual period and base-pay definition. The current schema does not preserve salary period or base versus total compensation, so comparable coverage is unverified. No salary midpoint is inferred from open ranges or missing values.
Current cohort: published, created before the cutoff and with no expiry or expiry after the cutoff. Historical cohort: retained published, expired or archived listings, first observed from May 1 through September 30, 2026, including listings already expired. Monthly intervals are [start, next month), capped at the snapshot cutoff, in UTC. The database creation date is a proxy for first observation, not the original market publication date; updatedAt and publishedAt never move a listing into a new monthly cohort.
Deduplication: same company plus identical trimmed application URL (fragment removed, query parameters preserved); otherwise Job ID. Global history uses the earliest retained record; current opportunities use the most recently updated active record. This conservative rule may retain duplicates with different URLs and may merge repostings at a reused URL. Each unique listing belongs to one first-observed month. Advertisements are neither completed hires nor necessarily one vacancy.
Junior means the stored seniority is junior, entry or entry-level. Intern, internship, trainee, traineeship, apprentice and apprenticeship signals in seniority, employment type or explicit title words take precedence and form a separate, mutually exclusive group. Associate and Executive titles never automatically imply junior. Other recognized levels include mid, senior, lead, manager, director, VP, staff, principal and C-level; unrecognized values remain unknown. Combining junior and training counts never double-counts a listing.
Monthly percentages divide by all unique observations, including unknown seniority. Classification coverage is known seniority / all observations. A known label is not a quality guarantee. Historical retention and scraper coverage are not independently verified; missing months are not fabricated. No sector growth, disappearance of junior talent, continuous company coverage or completed hiring is inferred.
All aggregation and findings are deterministic, computed on the server from one database snapshot and cached using the existing hourly public-data policy. No descriptions are fetched on page load and no AI generation runs during requests.
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| 65 |
| 7.7% |
| 6.1% |
| 100.0% |
| Retained records; completeness unverified |
| 7.1% |
| Google Sheets | 18 | 7.1% |
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| Git | 16 | 6.3% |
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| JavaScript | 15 | 6.0% |
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| SSP | 14 | 5.6% |
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| CRM | 13 | 5.2% |
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