ICT, all roles, Germany.
2026-Q3
Nothing published so far says whether hiring here is getting harder or easier.
Below the floor. No direction is shown.
The five readings
Movement is how the measurement shifted between two periods. Level is where it sits against a named benchmark. Plus always means harder to hire.
Every signal, with its weight
Source times age times distance gives the weight. A figure borrowed from a wider market still counts, but it never overrules one measured here.
Friction
Cost
Structure
How this cell has moved
Oldest first. A reading that holds quarter after quarter says more than a snapshot does.
Quarters marked reconstructed were scored afterwards, on the figures published about that quarter. They are not what this model said at the time, because it was not running then. Projections take no part in them.
Each metric, by quarter
The midline is the benchmark. Above it is tighter than the benchmark. A break in the line is a quarter with no reading, not a zero.
What is missing
No published figure touches demand, supply for this market.
Labour cost index, nominal, quarterly has been published to 2026-Q2, on 19 August 2026. The newest figure accepted here runs to 2025-Q2. That release is waiting to be read.