{"h1":"Job families with the most fractional and interim roles","faq":[{"a":"Executive Leadership leads: 1.72% of its professional openings are fractional or interim roles, against 0.22% across all job families.","q":"Which job family ranks first: job families with the most fractional and interim roles?"},{"a":"10 job families have at least 1,000 openings, so the list has 10 entries.","q":"How many job families are ranked?"},{"a":"A job family's score is the share of its open professional roles that the posting describes as fractional (part-time executive or specialist work for several employers) or interim (a temporary leadership or specialist stand-in). Only job families with at least 1,000 openings and 20 such roles are ranked. These roles are a small part of the board (about 0.5% for fractional and interim), so shares are small and move with a few postings. Only roles verified on the employer's own career site in the last week are counted.","q":"How is the ranking calculated?"},{"a":"Every month. This is the November 2026 edition. Older editions stay on this site at their own dated addresses.","q":"How often is it updated?"}],"lead":"Executive Leadership leads: 1.72% of its professional openings are fractional or interim roles, against 0.22% across all job families.","minN":1000,"rows":[{"n":2323,"bar":1,"key":"function:Executive Leadership","sub":"Job family","href":"/functions/executive-leadership","name":"Executive Leadership","rank":1,"stats":[{"label":"Fractional and interim openings","value":"40"},{"label":"All openings","value":"2,323"},{"label":"Contract openings","value":"2"}],"value":0.01721911321566939,"change":null,"employers":[],"valueLabel":"1.72%"},{"n":1401,"bar":0.8290506780870807,"key":"function:Academic","sub":"Job family","href":"/functions/academic","name":"Academic","rank":2,"stats":[{"label":"Fractional and interim openings","value":"20"},{"label":"All openings","value":"1,401"},{"label":"Contract openings","value":"2"}],"value":0.01427551748750892,"change":null,"employers":[],"valueLabel":"1.43%"},{"n":34687,"bar":0.403496266612852,"key":"function:Finance","sub":"Job family","href":"/functions/finance","name":"Finance","rank":3,"stats":[{"label":"Fractional and interim openings","value":"241"},{"label":"All openings","value":"34,687"},{"label":"Contract openings","value":"345"}],"value":0.006947847896906622,"change":null,"employers":[],"valueLabel":"0.69%"},{"n":10309,"bar":0.3323721990493743,"key":"function:Clinical","sub":"Job family","href":"/functions/clinical","name":"Clinical","rank":4,"stats":[{"label":"Fractional and interim openings","value":"59"},{"label":"All openings","value":"10,309"},{"label":"Contract openings","value":"57"}],"value":0.005723154525172179,"change":null,"employers":[],"valueLabel":"0.57%"},{"n":14526,"bar":0.2438782183670659,"key":"function:Human Resources","sub":"Job family","href":"/functions/human-resources","name":"Human Resources","rank":5,"stats":[{"label":"Fractional and interim openings","value":"61"},{"label":"All openings","value":"14,526"},{"label":"Contract openings","value":"360"}],"value":0.004199366652898251,"change":null,"employers":[],"valueLabel":"0.42%"},{"n":14245,"bar":0.1671516321516321,"key":"function:Marketing","sub":"Job family","href":"/functions/marketing","name":"Marketing","rank":6,"stats":[{"label":"Fractional and interim openings","value":"41"},{"label":"All openings","value":"14,245"},{"label":"Contract openings","value":"144"}],"value":0.002878202878202878,"change":null,"employers":[],"valueLabel":"0.29%"},{"n":12953,"bar":0.1210549679610901,"key":"function:Legal","sub":"Job family","href":"/functions/legal","name":"Legal","rank":7,"stats":[{"label":"Fractional and interim openings","value":"27"},{"label":"All openings","value":"12,953"},{"label":"Contract openings","value":"365"}],"value":0.002084459198641241,"change":null,"employers":[],"valueLabel":"0.21%"},{"n":41887,"bar":0.04575345572612028,"key":"function:Sales","sub":"Job family","href":"/functions/sales","name":"Sales","rank":8,"stats":[{"label":"Fractional and interim openings","value":"33"},{"label":"All openings","value":"41,887"},{"label":"Contract openings","value":"67"}],"value":0.0007878339341561821,"change":null,"employers":[],"valueLabel":"0.08%"},{"n":47185,"bar":0.04184698527074282,"key":"function:Operations","sub":"Job family","href":"/functions/operations","name":"Operations","rank":9,"stats":[{"label":"Fractional and interim openings","value":"34"},{"label":"All openings","value":"47,185"},{"label":"Contract openings","value":"464"}],"value":0.0007205679771113701,"change":null,"employers":[],"valueLabel":"0.07%"},{"n":87056,"bar":0.02401557618084911,"key":"function:Engineering","sub":"Job family","href":"/functions/engineering","name":"Engineering","rank":10,"stats":[{"label":"Fractional and interim openings","value":"36"},{"label":"All openings","value":"87,056"},{"label":"Contract openings","value":"976"}],"value":0.000413526925197574,"change":null,"employers":[],"valueLabel":"0.04%"}],"slug":"job-families-with-the-most-fractional-and-interim-roles","unit":"openings","scope":{"id":"us","kind":"national","name":"United States"},"title":"Job families with the most fractional and interim roles","family":"Work arrangements","method":["A job family's score is the share of its open professional roles that the posting describes as fractional (part-time executive or specialist work for several employers) or interim (a temporary leadership or specialist stand-in).","Only job families with at least 1,000 openings and 20 such roles are ranked. These roles are a small part of the board (about 0.5% for fractional and interim), so shares are small and move with a few postings. Only roles verified on the employer's own career site in the last week are counted."],"builtAt":"2026-11-04T03:39:09.026Z","edition":"2026-11","measure":"ef_flex","sources":["NextChapter job data: open professional roles on employer career sites, verified in the last week"],"baseline":{"label":"all job families","valueLabel":"0.22%"},"keyFacts":["#1 Executive Leadership, Job family: 1.72%","#2 Academic, Job family: 1.43%","#3 Finance, Job family: 0.69%","10 job families ranked across all job families","Data as of November 2026"],"placeNoun":"job families","commentary":["The lead is wide: Executive Leadership (1.72%) is well clear of Engineering at #10 (0.04%).","Academic reaches #2 on a sample of 1,401 openings, a smaller market than most of the top ten, so its rank can move more from month to month.","Engineering is the largest market in the top ten, with 87,056 openings behind its figure.","Job families with fewer than 1,000 openings are not ranked, and small differences between neighbouring ranks are not meaningful."],"license":"Free to use and share with a link to https://launchyournextchapter.com/rankings/job-families-with-the-most-fractional-and-interim-roles"}