About this site: JobsDB HK Keyword Tracker
The Hong Kong job market shifts every day, but the shifts are rarely written down. This site is a small data instrument: every night it visits hk.jobsdb.com and records how many vacancies exist across the market — one reading a day, accumulating into trends you can actually see.
It is a free, personal project. The questions it tries to answer are simple ones you cannot otherwise look up — have clerk vacancies risen or fallen over the past three months? Which companies are hiring hardest right now? Which industries are growing?
Every night at 02:00
At 02:00 Hong Kong time, a scheduled job takes one snapshot of hk.jobsdb.com and writes down three sets of numbers: the total matching listings for each tracked keyword, the vacancy count for each of the thirty official industry classifications, and the newest individual job postings. Each snapshot adds one point to every series; the charts are simply those points, joined up day by day. One reading a night — the value is in the constancy, not the immediacy.
Keywords you choose
Add any keyword — "clerk", "registered nurse", "barista" — and the tracker starts counting its matching listings every night. Each keyword becomes its own line; you can compare up to 8 on one chart and switch the window from 7 days out to a full year. When two series are far apart in size — "accounting" against "actuary", say — the indexed mode rebases every line to 100 at the start of the chosen window, so what you compare is percentage movement, and series of very different sizes meet on fair terms.
All 30 industries, no setup
Independently of your keywords, the same nightly job records the vacancy count for every official JobsDB industry classification — Accounting, Banking & Financial Services, Information & Communications Technology, and the other 27. Nothing to configure: this history builds whether or not you ever add a keyword, so industry-level trends are ready the moment you arrive.
A listings database and its leaderboards
The tracker also collects the newest individual listings each night — title, company, role, industry, listing date — into a database of around 11,500 jobs and growing. From it come three views: the companies with the most new postings in the last 7 days; the most-posted job titles, counted two ways — by JobsDB's normalized roles (so "私人司機兼保鏢 Private Driver & Bodyguard" resolves to Private Driver) and by broader categories that group related roles (all drivers counted together); and a new-postings-per-day mini chart for any role, category or company. The mini charts are drawn from listing dates rather than accumulated snapshots, so they work immediately — no waiting for history.
What it's for
- Job seekers — Before sending applications, look at your own role's line: is demand expanding or contracting? Then check which companies posted the most jobs in the past 7 days — you will know where to aim and when to move, instead of guessing.
- Career switchers — Put your current industry and the one you are considering on the same chart in indexed mode. Both start at 100, so what you compare is trajectory, not size — one line quietly contracting while the other climbs is plain to see over a few months.
- Students and parents choosing a field — Rather than impressions and hearsay, watch the industry lines over months: which sectors add listings steadily and which are shrinking — one more piece of evidence for a study or career decision.
- HR teams and recruiters — The industry line gives you a baseline for how competitive hiring is in your sector right now; the role and company leaderboards show the movers — a title suddenly in demand, a competitor stepping up its postings.
- Anyone curious about the Hong Kong economy — Job vacancies are one of an economy's vital signs. Thirty industries, one reading a night, patiently accumulated — a free, daily-updated pulse of the Hong Kong labour market.
About the data, honestly
- Counts come from JobsDB's own search totals. If JobsDB counts a reposted or duplicate ad, so do we — the numbers reflect what the site shows, with no deduplication of our own.
- The listings database only contains jobs that were still active when collected; postings that closed before a nightly snapshot are missed and never backfilled. Per-day posting history therefore gets less complete the further back you look — treat recent days as the most trustworthy.
- A new keyword starts accumulating data from the next 02:00 HKT snapshot — you will not see a point on the day you add it, and the series builds one point a night from then on.
- Data is collected once a day, at 02:00. Intraday movement is invisible; each point simply records the state of JobsDB at that moment of the night.
- This is an independent personal project, free to use. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to JobsDB or SEEK in any way.
A chart is only as good as the nights it has been counting, and tonight can be the first — add a keyword at jobsdb-tracker.pages.dev/en/ and come back after the next 02:00 snapshot to see your first point.