When you get a report of something reasonably stable, like the job market, with many changes greater than 100% upwards or 50% downwards, it's automatically suspicious.
It's even more suspicious when there are multiple non-niche categories with near 1000% or more of change.
But then, if this happens at some time, this year is the best candidate. I'm personally hold any conclusion for when I see independent confirmation.
There is one big change that happened recently that could explain this as well. I never posted my PHP jobs on indeed. We always used glassdoor and LinkedIn. Now that indeed has purchased glassdoor and all of those job postings automatically go to indeed that could explain a huge rise in jobs there when in actuality there was always this many jobs.
It's even more suspicious when there are multiple non-niche categories with near 1000% or more of change.
But then, if this happens at some time, this year is the best candidate. I'm personally hold any conclusion for when I see independent confirmation.