Job-market report
The Learning and Development Jobs Report: September 2026
An analysis of 133 Learning and Development jobs, including hiring companies, remote work, locations.
The Learning and Development Jobs Report: September 2026
LearningDevelopmentJobs recorded 133 newly published jobs from 68 companies during September 2026. Of these, 41 were explicitly remote, representing 30.8% of the sample.
United States was the largest identifiable hiring market with 78 openings. The most frequently repeated exact title was "Learning Designer," appearing 16 times.
Learning and Development hiring at a glance
- 133 newly published jobs
- 68 hiring companies
- 41 explicitly remote jobs
- 30.8% remote-job share
- 22 jobs without a reliably normalized country
Tools and platforms employers requested most
| Tool or platform | Jobs | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Articulate | 28 | 21.1% |
| Camtasia | 10 | 7.5% |
| Captivate | 6 | 4.5% |
| Synthesia | 2 | 1.5% |
| 360Learning | 1 | 0.8% |
| Docebo | 1 | 0.8% |
| Moodle | 1 | 0.8% |
| Vyond | 1 | 0.8% |
| Workday Learning | 1 | 0.8% |
A vacancy can mention more than one tool or platform, so these percentages should not be added together.
Frameworks and methods mentioned
| Framework or method | Jobs | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Needs analysis | 35 | 26.3% |
| ADDIE | 13 | 9.8% |
| SAM | 5 | 3.8% |
| Kirkpatrick | 3 | 2.3% |
AI mentions
61 jobs (45.9%) mentioned AI, generative AI, or AI-enabled content creation.
Title breakdown
| Title cluster | Jobs | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Learning designer | 34 | 25.6% |
| L&D manager | 22 | 16.5% |
| Instructional designer | 16 | 12.0% |
| Trainer/facilitator | 3 | 2.3% |
| Content developer | 1 | 0.8% |
Exact titles vary, so these clusters group adjacent language such as instructional design, learning design, facilitation, enablement, and content development.
Employer type
| Employer type | Jobs | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Corporate | 122 | 91.7% |
| Retail | 66 | 49.6% |
| Healthcare | 64 | 48.1% |
| Edtech | 45 | 33.8% |
| Higher ed | 6 | 4.5% |
Employer type is inferred from company names, industries, titles, and job descriptions. It is useful for spotting market shape, but it should be read as directional rather than company-level classification.
Pay transparency
68 jobs (51.1%) listed a salary range. Among jobs with parsed ranges, the median minimum was $83,000 and the median maximum was $115,000.
Employment type
| Employment type | Jobs | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Full-time | 128 | 96.2% |
| Contract/freelance | 3 | 2.3% |
| Part-time | 2 | 1.5% |
Skills mentioned most often
| Skill | Jobs | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Stakeholder management | 67 | 50.4% |
| Data and analytics | 64 | 48.1% |
| Facilitation | 52 | 39.1% |
| SME collaboration | 28 | 21.1% |
Where hiring occurred
| Country | New jobs |
|---|---|
| United States | 78 |
| United Kingdom | 11 |
| Canada | 7 |
| India | 5 |
| Australia | 2 |
| South Africa | 2 |
| Greece | 1 |
| Japan | 1 |
The geographic results describe jobs observed by LearningDevelopmentJobs; they are not a complete measure of all Learning and Development hiring worldwide.
Seniority of advertised roles
| Seniority | Jobs | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Manager | 57 | 42.9% |
| Senior | 31 | 23.3% |
| Partner | 18 | 13.5% |
| Training | 9 | 6.8% |
| Director | 7 | 5.3% |
| Chief X Officer (CxO) | 4 | 3.0% |
| Unclassified | 4 | 3.0% |
| Entry-level | 3 | 2.3% |
What candidates can take from the data
Candidates should look for skills that recur across different titles, decide whether employers favor generalists or platform specialists, and compare available inventory with their preferred location and seniority. A strong strategy is to combine a recognizable specialization with a transferable capability such as analytics, lifecycle design, automation, data quality, or commercial operations.
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Methodology
This report analyzed 133 jobs first published to LearningDevelopmentJobs from 2026-09-01 up to, but not including, 2026-10-01. Platform mentions are extracted from job descriptions; a job may mention multiple platforms. Remote share counts jobs explicitly classified as remote.
This is a sample collected by LearningDevelopmentJobs, not a complete census of the global labor market.