Closed month report
AdTech Hiring Report – May 2026
Monthly AdTech hiring trends based on job openings created in May 2026across programmatic, Ad Ops, CTV, Retail Media, Measurement, Engineering and related companies. The report includes active and expired jobs because it measures hiring activity during the closed month.
Period: May 1, 2026 through May 31, 2026, using UTC month boundaries.
Openings created
2,098
Companies hiring
63
Locations / cities
228
Remote / hybrid share
61%
Top hiring company
Merkle
Top hiring city
New York 🇺🇸
Top category
Sales
Engineering jobs
1,300
Includes engineering category and technical role signals.
Key insights
- Merkle created the most tracked openings in May 2026, with 155 jobs.
- Sales was the leading category, representing 22% of tracked openings created that month.
- Remote or hybrid roles accounted for 61% of openings, covering 1,283 jobs.
- Engineering-related roles made up 62% of tracked monthly hiring activity.
- Python, programmatic and SQL were the most common skills or tags mentioned in job posts.
Top 20 companies hiring
Top 20 locations / cities
Openings by category
Openings by workplace type
Top skills and tags
Top seniority levels
Engineering breakdown
Engineering hiring in May 2026
1,300
Methodology
This report is based on job openings tracked by AdTechTalent with a creation date between May 1, 2026 and May 31, 2026. It includes roles that may now be expired, because the goal is to analyze hiring activity during the month, not only currently active roles.
The database filter is createdAt >= periodStart and createdAt < periodEnd, where periodStart is the first day of the month at 00:00:00 UTC and periodEnd is the first day of the next month at 00:00:00 UTC.