“applicants”
Appeared in 34% of designer job listings the week of 2026-11-02 (29 of 86 postings).
First tracked 2026-04-13 · 21 weeks of collected data · peak prevalence 58% · no data collected Jul 27 – Sep 27
“applicants” prevalence in designer JDs, by week
2026-04-13 → 2026-11-02% of each week's designer postings that mention this term · 21 collected weeks · peak 58% · 29 earlier weeks from before collection began not shown · hatched rows: no data collected, not 0%
Where the conversation happens
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| Role | Total mentions |
|---|---|
| Senior Product Designer | 1050 |
| Design Engineer | 500 |
| Staff Product Designer | 457 |
| Product Designer | 329 |
| UX Designer | 183 |
| UX Researcher | 113 |
| Principal Product Designer | 110 |
| Design Lead | 110 |
| Content Designer | 80 |
| AI Product Designer | 72 |
| Design Systems Engineer | 61 |
| UX Writer | 59 |
| Growth Designer | 33 |
| Product Design Manager | 23 |
| Associate Product Designer | 21 |
| Brand Designer | 19 |
| Junior Product Designer | 17 |
| Design Director | 12 |
| Head of Design | 11 |
Roles where “applicants” appears most
Ranked by share of the role's active listings that include this term. Roles with fewer than 20 active listings are left out.
- UX Researcher84% · 174 of 208 listings · 208 mentions
- Design Director65% · 37 of 57 listings · 56 mentions
- Content Designer60% · 64 of 107 listings · 108 mentions
- UX Writer58% · 38 of 65 listings · 66 mentions
- Product Design Manager57% · 25 of 44 listings · 37 mentions
- AI Product Designer50% · 62 of 123 listings · 75 mentions
- Design Systems Engineer49% · 45 of 92 listings · 66 mentions
- Design Engineer48% · 352 of 731 listings · 515 mentions
- Staff Product Designer48% · 330 of 687 listings · 513 mentions
- UX Designer47% · 168 of 356 listings · 239 mentions
About this tracker
Every active designer listing in our corpus is tokenized: HTML stripped, stopwords (common English words + job-posting boilerplate) removed, pure numbers dropped. The remaining tokens are bucketed into Monday-anchored weeks based on when each listing was first seen. Counts are weekly totals across every listing for that week. A week only counts as collected if our LinkedIn scrape (about 80% of volume) ran that week; weeks when it didn't are shown hatched as gaps, never as zeros.