How remotely.living builds its remote job database
remotely.living is built around a simple idea: a job labelled as remote should actually be useful to someone looking for remote work. We collect, normalize and filter job listings before they appear in search so that remote eligibility, location and duplicate postings are handled consistently.
Where our jobs come from
We collect job openings from thousands of company career pages, applicant tracking systems, specialist job boards and other job sources. The database is refreshed continuously as new listings appear and existing listings change.
Instead of treating every source as a separate job board, we normalize listings into one searchable dataset. This lets us apply the same remote-work, location and duplicate rules across different recruiting systems.
What we consider remote
We distinguish fully remote roles from hybrid and office-based positions. When a source indicates that regular physical attendance is required, the role is not treated as a fully remote listing.
Remote also does not automatically mean worldwide. Employers may limit a remote role to one country, several countries or a broader region. We preserve those restrictions instead of presenting every remote job as globally available.
Location normalization
Recruiting systems describe remote eligibility in different ways. A listing may contain a country, region, structured country code, a phrase such as “Remote — Poland”, or a broader restriction such as “Europe”.
remotely.living normalizes those signals into consistent country and regional filters so users can more easily understand where a job can actually be performed.
Duplicate removal
The same vacancy can appear on an employer's own careers page, an applicant tracking system and one or more external job boards at the same time.
We compare listings across sources and merge duplicates when company, role, location and other identifying signals indicate that they represent the same opening.
Freshness and expired jobs
Job availability changes constantly. Sources are refreshed regularly and listings that are no longer active are removed from active search results.
We also check application links and remove listings when a dead or unavailable application page is detected.
Where our market data comes from
Statistics shown on category, skill and location pages are calculated from active listings in the remotely.living database. They are not survey estimates or AI-generated market figures.
Counts, skills, experience requirements, employer activity and salary samples can change as jobs are added, updated, merged or removed.
What the system does not assume
We do not assume that every job containing the word “remote” is available worldwide, and we do not treat a hybrid role as fully remote simply because remote work is mentioned somewhere in the description.
Source data can still be incomplete or change after publication. Our goal is to make the database more useful and consistent while preserving the restrictions employers actually publish.
Database coverage
- 7,000+ job sources
- Focused on fully remote work
- Listings refreshed continuously
- Cross-source duplicate cleanup
- Country and regional eligibility normalization
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