Monthly ranking · August 2026

Fastest-Hiring Space Companies

Ranked by net open roles added between a company’s first and last job-board snapshot inside August 2026. Hiring is the least-gameable public signal a private space company emits: job counts move before press releases do. Site-wide, 6,733 roles were open at month end.

No earlier edition: this is the first.Latest edition (September 2026) →Full Hiring Index for this month

Correction, 6 Oct 2026: from late September until this date, this edition's top-10 and fastest-mover tables left out every employer whose counting rule we changed after August, including SpaceX and Anduril, the two largest employers in it, because those later changes were wrongly applied to this month's figures. The top 10 had been filled out with employers holding 1 to 4 postings. The tables now show the month as it was recorded.

Logged on /corrections.

First edition: no movement to report

There is no published edition for the previous month, so the movement column is empty for every row. We would rather show nothing than draw arrows against a table that does not exist.

Coverage change inside this month

Blue Origin’s Workday board joined the tracker (+≈1,590 postings). Totals jump on this date reflects expanded coverage, not market hiring.

Fastest-hiring space companies in August 2026
#	Company	Net added	Growth	Open roles	Movement
Rank 1	SpaceX2026-08-13 → 2026-08-31	+90	+4%	2,248	No prior edition
Rank 2	Voyager Technologies2026-08-13 → 2026-08-31	+37	+33%	150	No prior edition
Rank 3	Planet2026-08-13 → 2026-08-31	+31	+38%	112	No prior edition

Methodology

Built from SpaceNexus’s daily snapshot of live job postings across tracked space-company applicant-tracking systems. Every company’s open-role count is recorded once a day.
A company’s monthly figure is the change between its FIRST and LAST snapshot inside the calendar month: net roles added, not gross postings, so a company that opened and filled ten roles in the month does not appear to have grown.
Only companies holding at least five open roles at the end of the month are ranked, and only companies with at least two snapshots inside the month: below that, a two-role swing is noise rather than a hiring signal, and a single snapshot has no change to measure.
Ranking is by net roles added, descending. Companies adding the same number of net roles share a rank, shown as =3; within a tie, rows are listed by percentage growth, then company name (A–Z). Each edition publishes the qualifying gainers carried by that month’s Hiring Index (up to eight).
Coverage changes are flagged, not hidden: when a company’s board newly joins the tracker inside a month, its first snapshot is the day we started watching it, so its apparent growth is coverage rather than hiring. Any coverage change falling inside the month is named on the page.

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Computed from SpaceNexus data - no model is involved in producing a release

Every figure here is arithmetic over our own rows (counts, sums, deltas and rankings), and the page and its export are built by the same code, so they cannot disagree. How this edition is computed

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