RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Despite low numbers of postings in the Triangle job market and local startup job market this week, many top Triangle companies are hiring, according to TechWire’s exclusive jobs report.

Collectively the Top 50 firms TechWire tracks for  job openings generated a 1.8% increase in job postings from last week.

With 260,539 opportunities currently available (not taking into post duplications), the wider job market showed 27% fewer job postings compared to this time last year.

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Triangle startups, meanwhile, experienced a 7.7% decline from this time last week.

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Here are the numbers: