Chapter 6 · Signals

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The weekly count

Counted, not estimated: the rows in this issue, week by week.

Showing MENA all seats

The last complete week: moves, the week of ; job posts, the week of

DataMENA · pooled

14

Moves

110 in the 15 weeks

7

Funding rounds

68 in the 15 weeks

0

New sales leaders

7 in the 15 weeks

205

Job posts coded

393 in the 15 weeks

Moves swept to 11 Nov; job posts counted to 11 Nov.

DataMENA · pooled

Week by week

15 weeks, four counts

All marketsAll seats

Moves

110 in 15 weeks

  1. 7

  2. 4

  3. 2

  4. 5

  5. 14

  6. 9

  7. 10

  8. 5

  9. 4

  10. 5

  11. 4

  12. 13

  13. 6

  14. 14

  15. 8

Funding rounds

68 in 15 weeks

  1. 4

  2. 3

  3. 2

  4. 5

  5. 12

  6. 5

  7. 7

  8. 4

  9. 1

  10. 4

  11. 2

  12. 7

  13. 2

  14. 7

  15. 3

New sales leaders

7 in 15 weeks

  1. 0

  2. 0

  3. 0

  4. 0

  5. 0

  6. 1

  7. 1

  8. 0

  9. 1

  10. 0

  11. 1

  12. 2

  13. 1

  14. 0

  15. 0

Job posts coded

393 coded in all

  1. Not coded

  2. Not coded

  3. Not coded

  4. Not coded

  5. Not coded

  6. Not coded

  7. Not coded

  8. Not coded

  9. Not coded

  10. Not coded

  11. Not coded

  12. Not coded

  13. Not coded

  14. 205

  15. 188

  • Moves: not swept yet (swept to 11 Nov)
  • Job posts: not coded yet, or the week cut at 11 Nov
Busiest weeks: 31 Aug and 2 Nov 2026 with 14 moves each, a tie; the hatched weeks are not counted in full yet.
See the numbers
Counts per week, the weeks of 3 Aug to 9 Nov 2026; moves swept to 11 Nov
Week ofMovesFunding roundsNew sales leadersJob posts codedEgyptSaudi ArabiaUAEQatarOmanBahrainMENA
740Not coded0340000
430Not coded0130000
220Not coded0020000
550Not coded0140000
14120Not coded11030000
951Not coded1440000
1071Not coded2530000
540Not coded1310000
411Not coded0220000
540Not coded0410000
421Not coded1120000
1372Not coded3460000
621Not coded2040000
14702050340241
8301880341000

  1. DataMENA · pooled

    Moves

    110

    In the weeks of 3 Aug to 9 Nov 2026, moves swept to 11 Nov. The busiest, the weeks of 31 Aug and 2 Nov, carried 14 each.

  2. DataMENA · pooled

    Funding rounds

    68

    68 of the 110 moves were funding rounds, in 15 of 15 weeks.

  3. DataMENA · pooled

    New sales leaders

    7

    7 new sales leaders, in 6 of 15 weeks.

  4. DataMENA · pooled

    Job posts coded

    393

    393 job posts coded from the week of 2 Nov on. The weeks before are hatched: not coded, not zero.

The same weeks on two calendars

  1. Aug 2026
  2. Sep
  3. Oct
  4. Nov
  1. Safar
  2. Rabi al-Awwal 1448
  3. Rabi al-Thani
  4. Jumada al-Ula
  5. Jumada al-Akhirah
  1. Mawlid (Prophet’s Birthday) holiday 27 Aug to 28 Aug 2026 Egypt Today (opens the source in a new tab)
  2. LEAP 2026, Riyadh 31 Aug to 3 Sep 2026 Sharikat Mubasher (opens the source in a new tab)
  3. Saudi National Day 23 Sep 2026 Gulf News (opens the source in a new tab)
  4. Egypt Armed Forces Day holiday 8 Oct 2026 Arab Finance (opens the source in a new tab)
  5. Year-end push and December offers (recruiters) 1 Nov to 31 Dec 2026 Khaleej Times (opens the source in a new tab)

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  • Wamda60
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  • TradeArabia7
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Is a quiet week a missing week?

No. The series is continuous and a quiet week is a zero: no public source we read announced a move that week.

Why are the job posts hatched before 2 Nov?

Because we started coding job posts that week. A week we did not code is drawn as hatch, never as a zero.

Why are the last weeks hatched for moves?

Because the moves register was last swept on 11 Nov 2026. The weeks after it are drawn as hatch until the next sweep.