Reading the Market Trends Leaderboard
How employer rankings work, and why not every company shows up ranked.
3 min readOpen Market Trends
The Market Trends page shows a public leaderboard of employers ranked by reply-time performance (best-performing and worst-performing tabs), plus response-speed trends by sector.
Understand the ranking rule
A company needs at least 5 verified candidate logs before it's eligible to appear ranked at all. This is deliberate: without a minimum sample size, a single log could swing a brand-new company to '#1' or '0% ghost index,' which wouldn't be a credible signal.
Check the sector trends too
Below the leaderboard, response-speed-by-sector, a weekly response-time trend line, and a skill verification rate chart show how quickly employers in a given industry respond, and how often their applicants actually pass a skill probe or task, so you can see beyond just response speed.
Switch the display currency if you need to
Salary and pricing figures across Market Trends follow a currency preference you can change from the page itself; it's remembered for next time you visit.
The Hiring Confidence Index
A single 0 to 100 gauge in the stat tile grid reads the overall temperature of the hiring market, built entirely from RecruiterLog's own data (ghosting trend, response speed trend, posting volume, Trust Score movement, and disclosed salary trend), never an outside source. If there isn't enough data across enough of those signals yet, it says so plainly instead of showing a number it can't back up. A small link icon on the tile gives you a copy-paste snippet if you want to embed it on your own site.