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Jobs abroad on a Polish job board: 1 ad in 26, twice as likely to show pay, about twice the pay

Yusuke Suda — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:02:10 +0000

Praca pl, one of Poland's national job boards, tags some ads as located outside Poland. I count them every day along with the domestic ads. They are a small slice of the board, but they look very different from the rest.

How many

On 6 November 2026 the board had 634 live ads for jobs abroad, out of 16,725 in total: about 1 in 26. The number has been steady: 661 on 20 October, 666 on 27 October, 639 on 3 November.

What kind of jobs

Almost all of them are manual and technical work (6 November):

Category	Ads abroad	Share stating pay	Median advertised pay (PLN/month)
Engineering & technical	219	34%	11,600
Production	165	42%	14,000
Transport & logistics	130	51%	11,500
Other	71	42%	16,000
Construction	28	36%	10,000
All other categories	21	—	—

Office, sales, IT and health care jobs abroad barely appear: 21 ads between them.

Pay is shown far more often, and it is higher

40.4% of the ads for jobs abroad state pay, against 19.5% for the board as a whole.
The median advertised pay abroad is 11,900 PLN a month. Within Poland the median by voivodeship ranges from about 5,500 to 7,000 PLN.
The gap holds within the same kind of job. In production, 42% of ads abroad state pay against 22% of domestic ads; in transport & logistics, 51% against 44%; in engineering, 34% against 15.5%.

Employers recruiting Polish workers for jobs abroad compete on the wage, so they put it in the ad. Domestic employers, for the most part, still do not.

Caveats

Counts of ads on one board's public list pages, not vacancies.
The board marks an ad as abroad; it does not tell us which country, so this cannot be split by destination.
Pay is the advertised monthly amount in PLN (lower bound where a range is given). Ads abroad may quote a converted amount, and pay abroad comes with higher living costs, so the gap is not a like-for-like comparison of living standards.
Medians are shown only where at least five ads in the group state pay.

The data

A free sample of these daily counts for Poland (by voivodeship and category, with the pay share and median pay) is on Hugging Face at huggingface.co/datasets/listingworks; the dataset page shows the dates it covers. The figures in this post, including the "abroad" group, come from the full daily series.

Which kinds of jobs grew and shrank on a Polish job board in October 2026

Yusuke Suda — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:02:18 +0000

Last week I looked at the weekly rhythm of job ads on Praca pl, one of Poland's national job boards. This time: which kinds of jobs gained and lost ads over the month. I compare two Tuesdays, 13 October and 3 November, so the weekly rhythm does not distort the change.

Live ads by job category

Category	13 Oct	3 Nov	Change
Engineering & technical	2,614	2,746	+5%
Sales & customer service	3,058	2,579	−16%
Production	2,602	2,499	−4%
Finance, admin & HR	1,924	1,868	−3%
Transport & logistics	1,338	1,646	+23%
Other	1,592	1,509	−5%
Health care	1,485	1,099	−26%
Construction	667	566	−15%
Hospitality & food	495	483	−2%
Management	440	413	−6%
IT	113	379	+235%
Education	461	284	−38%
Cleaning & security	145	137	−6%

Overall, live ads fell from 16,934 to 16,208 (−4%) between the two Tuesdays.

What stands out

Transport and logistics grew while most categories shrank: +23%, from 1,338 to 1,646 ads. That fits the run-up to the Christmas shipping season, when warehouses and carriers hire.
Sales and customer service lost the most ads in absolute terms (−479), much of it in the week to 27 October.
Health care (−26%) and education (−38%) fell sharply. Education dropped from 428 to 277 ads in the week of 21–27 October alone, probably as start-of-term hiring wound down.
IT more than tripled, but from a small base (113 to 379). Praca pl is not where most Polish IT jobs are advertised, and part of the rise may come from how ads are sorted into categories, so I would not read it as an IT hiring boom.

Who states pay

The share of ads that state a salary varies enormously by kind of job (20 October vs 3 November):

Transport & logistics: 36.0% → 42.8%, the most transparent large category, and rising.
Sales & customer service: 18.7% → 21.3%.
Production: 21.9% → 20.6%.
Engineering & technical: 15.0% → 14.6%.
Finance, admin & HR: 12.4% → 14.1%.
Health care: 3.5% → 5.0%, still almost nobody.

The jobs where pay is most often stated are the ones where employers compete hardest for workers on visible terms: drivers, warehouse staff, production lines. Office and professional jobs mostly keep pay off the ad.

Caveats

Counts of ads on one board's public list pages, not vacancies, and not the whole Polish market.
An ad is counted once per town. Categories are assigned from the board's own categories and the ad title, and an ad sits in one category only.
Pay shares are the share of live ads with an advertised monthly amount; medians are not shown here because they are only meaningful within a region.

The data

A free sample of these daily counts (by voivodeship and category, with the pay share and median pay) is on Hugging Face at huggingface.co/datasets/listingworks; the dataset page shows the dates it covers.

A month of daily job-ad counts from Praca pl: the weekly rhythm, and pay transparency inching up

Yusuke Suda — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:02:43 +0000

Most job-market figures come out once a month. I have been counting the live ads on Praca pl, one of Poland's national job boards, every morning since 2 October, from its public list pages. With a full month in hand, two things stand out that a monthly number cannot show: the board has a clear weekly rhythm, and the share of ads that state pay has crept up by about a point and a half.

The month in one line

Live ads peaked at 18,022 on 8 October and ended the month lower: 16,757 on 31 October and 16,206 on 2 November, about 10% below the peak. That fall is spread across the month rather than a single drop.

Date	Live ads	New since previous read	Removed	Share stating pay
8 Oct	18,022	841	771	17.6%
15 Oct	17,451	803	652	17.7%
22 Oct	16,896	967	1,260	19.0%
29 Oct	16,717	530	351	18.6%
2 Nov	16,206	391	915	18.8%

The weekly rhythm

The count is taken early each morning (05:00–06:00 Warsaw time), so each read covers roughly the previous day. Averaging the four full weeks from 6 October to 2 November:

Read on	Covers mostly	New ads (avg)	Removed (avg)
Monday	Sunday	347	878
Tuesday	Monday	483	356
Wednesday	Tuesday	656	357
Thursday	Wednesday	785	759
Friday	Thursday	926	955
Saturday	Friday	844	1,015
Sunday	Saturday	618	893

New ads build through the week and peak in the Friday read; removals are lowest early in the week and highest around the weekend. The result is that Monday is the low point for live ads every single week: 16,775 on 12 October, 16,602 on 19 October, 15,875 on 26 October and 16,206 on 2 November. Anyone comparing a Monday figure with a mid-week one will see a "drop" that is just the calendar.

Pay transparency is inching up

The share of live ads that state a salary was 17.0–18.1% in the first half of October and 18.4–19.1% from 17 October onwards. That is a small move, and one month is not a trend, but it is in the direction the EU Pay Transparency Directive pushes. It is still far from universal: four in five ads say nothing about pay.

By voivodeship (20 October vs 2 November, the same table layout on both days):

Mazowieckie has the most ads (3,016 on 2 November) and a steady 26.8% stating pay on both dates.
Łódzkie rose from 21.1% to 24.2%, Podkarpackie from 12.8% to 16.1%, Świętokrzyskie from 11.6% to 14.4%, Lubelskie from 9.8% to 12.0%.
Dolnośląskie fell from 18.3% to 15.9%, Lubuskie from 15.4% to 12.3%.
Ads for jobs abroad stand apart: 39.2% state pay, with a median of 11,900 PLN a month.

Caveats

These are counts of ads on one board's public list pages, not vacancies, and not the whole Polish market.
An ad is counted once per town. "New" is an id seen for the first time; "removed" is an id no longer on the list.
The pay figures use the advertised monthly amount (lower bound where a range is given), and a median is shown only where at least five ads state pay.
Ads that the board does not tie to a voivodeship rose from 645 to 994 between 20 October and 2 November, so some regional falls may be ads without a location rather than ads that went away.
3 and 4 October are missing; the 5 October read therefore covers three days.

Getting the data

A free sample of the daily aggregates (live, new and removed ads, ads stating pay and median pay, by voivodeship and category) is on Hugging Face at huggingface.co/datasets/listingworks; the dataset page shows the dates it covers. I will keep the series going and write again when there are two months to compare.

Which Polish job ads state pay? Transport 37%, health care under 5% (28 October 2026)

Yusuke Suda — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:04:45 +0000

One in five Polish job ads says what the job pays. That average hides a wide spread: whether you see a number depends far more on the kind of job than on where it is.

Every day I count the live job ads on the public list pages of Praca pl, one of Poland's large general job boards, and publish the totals as a free dataset. This post uses the snapshot of 28 October 2026: 16,531 live ads, of which 3,107 (18.8%) state pay.

Pay stated, by type of job (28 Oct)

Type of job	Live ads	State pay
Transport & logistics	1,617	36.9%
Cleaning & security	152	31.6%
Education	280	27.5%
Production	2,512	22.4%
Sales & customer service	2,589	19.9%
Other	1,594	18.8%
Engineering & technical	2,712	17.0%
Management	407	17.0%
Construction	625	13.4%
Finance, admin & HR	2,067	13.4%
Hospitality & food	498	8.2%
IT	306	7.8%
Health care	1,172	4.5%

The jobs that show pay most often are drivers, warehouse staff, cleaners and security, where candidates are likely to compare offers on pay first. Office, IT and health-care ads mostly leave it out, even though these are not low-paid fields.

Pay stated, by region (28 Oct)

The regional gap is real but smaller than the gap between job types. Mazowieckie (Warsaw) is highest at 27.3% of 3,184 ads. Most regions sit between 14% and 22%, and the lowest are Lubelskie (9.6%), Warmińsko-Mazurskie (10.1%) and Świętokrzyskie (10.7%).

Jobs abroad: more pay, stated more often

688 of the ads are for work outside Poland. 38.1% of them state pay, twice the domestic rate, and the median stated pay is 12,000 PLN a month, against 6,000–7,500 PLN in the Polish regions. Production jobs abroad have a median of 14,000 PLN and engineering & technical jobs 13,600 PLN.

One week on

A week earlier, on 21 October, there were 17,138 live ads and 19.1% stated pay. On 28 October there were 16,531 (−3.5%) and 18.8%. So the share is steady: there is no sign yet of employers adding pay ahead of the EU Pay Transparency Directive, which requires employers to give candidates pay information before the interview, though not necessarily in the ad itself.

How to read these numbers

They are counts of ads on one board's public list pages, not of vacancies or people, and one employer can post several ads.
"States pay" means the list page shows a pay figure or range. An ad may still give pay further down its own page.
Types of job are 13 broad groups assigned to each ad. Small groups (cleaning & security, education, IT) move a lot from day to day, so compare them over several days before drawing conclusions.
Medians are of the stated monthly pay figures only.

A free sample of the daily files (live, new and removed ads, ads with pay, and median stated pay by region and by type of job) is on Hugging Face (huggingface.co/datasets/listingworks); the dataset page shows the dates it covers. The same counts for the UK, Latvia, Croatia, Denmark and Pakistan come from small stats Actors on Apify (apify.com/listingworks).

How many job ads state pay? Latvia 98%, UK 72%, Poland 19%, Pakistan 6%

Yusuke Suda — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:30:37 +0000

Counts from public job-board list pages in October 2026. Aggregates only, no personal data.

Every day I read the public list pages of national job boards and count what they show. One column turns out to differ more between countries than almost anything else: whether the posting states a salary at all.

Country (board)	Postings read	State pay	Share
Latvia (cv lv)	2,173	2,139	98%
UK (reed, newest 3,000)	3,000	2,163	72%
Poland (Praca pl, all live)	15,875	2,961	19%
Croatia (mojposao)	1,595	195	12%
Pakistan (rozee, first 3,000)	3,000	168	6%
Denmark (jobindex)	732	—	not shown on list pages

Latvia, UK, Croatia, Pakistan and Denmark: 15 October 2026. Poland: 26 October 2026.

What the gap means

Latvia is near 100% because the board requires it. A rule on the platform does more than any market habit: 34 postings out of 2,173 had no figure.

The UK is a habit, not a rule. Seven in ten of the newest Reed postings state a lower bound, and it is enough to compute regional medians (London GBP 35,500 a year, South East GBP 35,000, North West GBP 32,000).

Poland varies by region far more than by board. On 26 October the share was 26.9% in Mazowieckie (Warsaw's region, 3,068 live postings) but 9.3% in Lubelskie and 9.9% in Warmińsko-Mazurskie. Ten of the sixteen voivodeships are between 14% and 22%.

Pakistan barely states pay (168 of 3,000), so medians exist only for the largest cities: Lahore PKR 62,500 a month, Islamabad PKR 50,000, Karachi PKR 46,800.

Denmark's jobindex shows no pay on its search pages at all, so a Danish pay series has to come from somewhere else.

Why it matters for anyone using job-ad data

A median of advertised pay is a median of the postings that chose to show it. In a 6% market it describes a small and probably unusual group.
Comparing pay between countries from job ads mixes a measurement difference with a pay difference. Compare the disclosure share first.
Within one country, a region with low disclosure is not necessarily a low-pay region; it is a region where the number is less reliable.

How the numbers are made

Public list (search) pages only, read once a day; posting pages are never opened.
A posting is counted once per town; regions are mapped from the place text with a small table per country.
"States pay" means the list page shows a figure; the median uses the lower bound of a range, never mixes currencies or periods, and is shown only where at least five values exist.
Employer names that are a person's name are not kept.

Get the data

Free sample of the daily tables for Poland (counts, new and removed postings, pay share and medians by region): huggingface.co/datasets/listingworks
Run the scrapers yourself, pay per result: apify.com/listingworks
Daily files per source by subscription: listingworks.net

Yusuke Suda, listingworks (Yokohama). Corrections welcome by email: yusuke@listingworks.net

PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618/109619): a 10-minute checklist for site owners

Yusuke Suda — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 07:30:11 +0000

On 21 October 2026 the PHP project shipped an emergency security release for two critical remote-code-execution bugs, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, nicknamed "PHP2Shell". A working exploit exists and, according to reports, a single unauthenticated request can trigger it before any application code runs. This is a plain checklist of what to do, collected from the public advisories listed at the end.

1. Know the fixed versions

Branch	Fixed in
8.5	8.5.12
8.4	8.4.27
8.3	8.3.36
8.2	8.2.35
8.1 and older	no official release; source backports exist for 7.4, 8.0 and 8.1, otherwise ask your vendor or upgrade

Every PHP installation that serves web requests is in scope (PHP-FPM, Apache with mod_php, CGI, FrankenPHP, LiteSpeed). Setups using mod_php are described as the most exposed.

2. Find out what you are running

WordPress: Tools → Site Health → Info → Server.
Shell access: php -v (and check the version your web server actually uses, which can differ from the CLI).
Caveat: Linux distributions often backport fixes without changing the version number. An older-looking number is not proof you are unpatched; check your distribution's or host's security notice.

3. Act according to how you host

Managed WordPress hosting: look for your host's status page or e-mail confirming the patch. Usually nothing to do.
Shared hosting: ask your host directly whether the 21 October release is applied. If your PHP selector shows 8.1 or older, move to 8.2+.
VPS / self-managed: install your distribution's updated PHP packages now and restart PHP-FPM / the web server so every worker runs the fixed build. Remi repository users were advised that updates would not be available on release day.
Behind Cloudflare: Cloudflare deployed WAF rules for known vectors. Check they are set to block, not log. Treat this as a stop-gap, not a fix.
Stuck on 8.1 or older: take a full backup, test 8.2+ on a staging copy, then switch.

4. If you cannot patch today

Advisories mention disabling session.upload_progress.enabled as an interim measure against one vector of CVE-2026-109619, and the UK NCSC recommends taking systems offline if they cannot be fixed promptly. Only the update is a complete fix.

Sources

Help Net Security: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/10/21/php2shell-php-vulnerabilities-patched-cve-2026-109618-cve-2026-109619/
Codeable (WordPress guidance): https://www.codeable.io/blog/php-vulnerability-cve-2026-109618/
IPA (Japan) alert: https://www.ipa.go.jp/security/security-alert/2026/pre-alert20261021.html

Written by listingworks, a small data service in Yokohama. Facts as of 22 October 2026; check the advisories above for updates.

What nine job and property sites were advertising in mid-October 2026

Yusuke Suda — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 07:28:55 +0000

One-day snapshots from public list pages in the UK, Denmark, Croatia, Latvia, Pakistan, Luxembourg, Spain, India and Slovakia — counts and medians only, no personal data.

Official labour and housing statistics arrive weeks or months after the fact. The listing sites themselves update every hour. At listingworks I read the public list pages of job boards and property portals every day and turn them into small aggregate tables: how many postings or listings there are by region, and what pay or price they advertise. This is what nine of those sites showed on 15 October 2026 (all reads between 07:52 and 08:08 UTC).

Two cautions before the numbers. First, these are samples of the first N listings each search returned, not counts of the whole market; where the site publishes its own total I give it next to the sample. Second, pay and prices are advertised lower bounds, only from postings that state them, and medians are shown only where at least five values exist. Nothing here comes from a posting page, an employer name, or a contact.

Jobs: postings by region and advertised pay

Site (country)	Postings read	Site's own total	Largest regions in the sample	Median advertised pay (lower bound)
reed.co.uk (UK)	3,000 newest	99,651 live	South East 635 · London 564 · North West 358	London GBP 35,500/yr · South East GBP 35,000 · North West GBP 32,000 (2,163 of 3,000 state pay)
jobindex.dk (DK)	732	~19,000 live	Hovedstaden 246 · Syddanmark 130 · Midtjylland 129	not shown on list pages
cv.lv (LV)	2,173	2,174	Rīga 1,631 · Pierīga 192 · Zemgale 82	Rīga EUR 2,000/mo · Pierīga EUR 1,950 · Zemgale EUR 1,800 (2,139 state pay)
mojposao.hr (HR)	1,595	1,595	Grad Zagreb 902 · Zagrebačka 129 · Splitsko-dalmatinska 122	Grad Zagreb EUR 1,400 · Zagrebačka EUR 1,430 · Splitsko-dalmatinska EUR 1,592 (195 state pay; period not given)
posao.hr (HR)	2,000 (cap)	—	Grad Zagreb 376 · Istarska 174 · abroad 166	not shown on list pages
rozee.pk (PK)	3,000	10,169	Lahore 811 · Karachi 777 · Islamabad 433	Lahore PKR 62,500/mo · Islamabad PKR 50,000 · Karachi PKR 46,800 (168 state pay)

Three things stand out. Latvia is the only market in this set where almost every posting states pay (98%), because cv.lv requires it; the UK is next at 72% of the newest postings; Pakistan is at 6%. Denmark's jobindex.dk lists no pay at all on its search pages, which is why Danish pay statistics have to come from elsewhere. And in both Croatian boards Zagreb carries more than half of the volume on mojposao.hr (57%) but only 19% on posao.hr, which lists more seasonal coastal and foreign work — the two boards are not interchangeable.

Property: asking prices by city

Site (country)	Listings read	Scope	Median asking price (sale)	Median asking rent (month)
pisos.com (ES)	3,000 sale + 3,000 rent	10 provinces, 300 newest each	Madrid EUR 306,000 (EUR 3,547/m²) · Barcelona EUR 312,500 (EUR 3,295/m²) · Málaga EUR 465,000 (EUR 4,000/m²)	Madrid EUR 1,400 · Barcelona EUR 1,750 · Málaga EUR 1,800
athome.lu (LU)	1,588 sale + 540 rent	10 largest communes, 200 each	Luxembourg City EUR 762,167 (EUR 11,194/m²) · Esch-sur-Alzette EUR 495,000 (EUR 7,142/m²) · Differdange EUR 570,000 (EUR 6,951/m²)	Luxembourg City EUR 1,800 · Esch-sur-Alzette EUR 700
nobroker.in (IN, rent only)	2,471	~500 each in Bengaluru, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad	—	Mumbai INR 42,000 (INR 781/m²) · Hyderabad INR 32,500 · Bengaluru INR 30,000

Málaga's newest listings ask more than Madrid's or Barcelona's, both in total and per square metre — the sample is the 300 newest per province, so this says something about what is coming onto the market now rather than about the stock. Luxembourg City asks 11,194 euros per square metre, three times Madrid. In India, Mumbai's rent per square metre is 2.4 times Bengaluru's even though the headline rents differ by only 40%: Mumbai flats in the sample are far smaller.

Used cars: one weekend on auto.bazos.sk (Slovakia)

5,717 car ads were listed or bumped on 14–15 October, at most 400 per make section (six sections hit the cap). By region: Nitriansky 950, Banskobystrický 772, Prešovský 719. Median asking price for the three largest makes: Škoda EUR 14,990, Volkswagen EUR 14,000, BMW EUR 11,700. Bazos list pages show no year or mileage, so those medians are empty.

How these tables are made

Sources: public list (search) pages only. Posting and ad pages are never opened.
Regions: the place as the site writes it, mapped with a small table per country (UK: 12 ITL1 regions; DK: 5 regioner; HR: 21 counties + abroad; LV: 6 regions, approximate; PK: 10 largest cities + other; SK: 8 kraje). A posting with several places counts under the first.
Job categories (in the per-category files): 13 groups by keywords in the title, first match wins. Approximate.
Pay and prices: lower bound of what the posting states; units and currencies are never mixed; price per m² = price / living area.
No personal data: employer and seller names are not in the tables at all. Where a scraper does return a company field, names that look like a person are blanked.

Get the data

The same tables, every day or every week, for one site or a bundle: listingworks.net (aggregate subscriptions from USD 99 a month; one-off extracts USD 49).
Run it yourself: the scrapers and the country statistics Actors behind these tables are on Apify Store at apify.com/listingworks (pay per result, about USD 1.50 per 1,000 rows; the statistics Actors return one row per region or category).
Free sample dataset (Poland, daily, CC BY 4.0): Kaggle and Hugging Face, user listingworks.

Next week's snapshot will add the same tables for Poland, Serbia and the Czech Republic, with week-on-week changes.

Yusuke Suda, listingworks (Yokohama). Figures read 15 October 2026. Corrections welcome by email.