ISO WEEK 33 · 10 AUG–17 AUG

Week of 10 August 2026

3,602 open roles across 70 companies. 3,602 opened, 197 closed.

THIS WEEK IN BRIEF

Job demand over time

Total open roles, week by week.

Open roles still live at each week's close, not new postings that week.

20,212 roles were open at the close of the week, up 5 per cent on the previous week's 19,193. Weekly growth was 1,019 roles, against an average of 3,118 over the preceding weeks. Seven weeks ago the board held 3,602.

Roles by country

Top 10 countries by open roles this week.

Where the role is based, not where the employer is headquartered.

the UK led with 1,051 open roles, 29 per cent of the total. Germany followed at 568, Ireland at 333. The top three markets accounted for 54 per cent of all roles.

  • 🇬🇧 the UK
    1,051 29%
  • 🇩🇪 Germany
    568 16%
  • 🇮🇪 Ireland
    333 9%
  • 🇪🇸 Spain
    324 9%
  • 🇫🇷 France
    219 6%
  • 🇳🇱 the Netherlands
    205 6%
  • 🇵🇱 Poland
    130 4%
  • 🇨🇭 Switzerland
    103 3%
  • 🇸🇪 Sweden
    79 2%
  • 🇷🇴 Romania
    71 2%

Top roles this week

Role families by open roles, and how they moved.

Every open posting is mapped to one role family from its title and description.

Sales was the largest role family at 525 open roles. Software followed at 515. The three largest families accounted for 41 per cent of the board.

  • Sales
    525
  • Software
    515
  • Solutions & Field
    310
  • Machine learning
    247
  • Security
    140
  • Finance
    133
  • Legal & Compliance
    130
  • Data centre
    120

Top technologies this week

Mentions across open postings.

Explicit mentions of a technology across open postings, counted once per listing.

AWS was named in 738 open postings, the most of any technology. Python followed at 657, 1.1 times behind.

  • AWS
    738
  • Python
    657
  • Java
    371
  • Distributed systems
    338
  • LLM / GenAI
    313
  • SQL
    309
  • C++
    285
  • GCP
    276

Hiring flow

Roles opened against roles closed, by week.

Opened Closed

Roles that first appeared on the board against roles removed from it.

3,205 roles opened and 2,652 closed, a net gain of 553. Openings were down 52 per cent on the previous week's 6,649. Net additions fell from 4,283 to 553. Closures cover filled, cancelled and expired postings alike.

Salaries

Annualised EUR estimate from the 300 postings that stated a figure. Each bar spans the 25th–75th percentile. Roles with fewer than 5 priced postings are omitted.

Annualised EUR estimates from postings that state a figure. Bars span the 25th to 75th percentile.

Finance paid most, €203k to €295k across the middle half of 5 postings. The market median was €115,420 across 300 postings that stated a figure. Solutions & Field paid least of the families shown, 84 per cent below Finance at the median.

  • Finance €203k – €295k
  • Machine learning €125k – €369k
  • Sales €101k – €230k
  • Engineering management €84k – €181k
  • Data €118k – €149k
  • Product €100k – €136k
  • DevOps & SRE €87k – €165k
  • Solutions & Field €111k – €136k
€0€50k€100k€150k€200k

Remote

654 of 3,602 open roles are remote (18%).

Counted remote only where the posting says so explicitly; anything ambiguous is treated as onsite.

18 per cent of open roles were remote, 654 of 3,602. Legal & Compliance was the most remote of the leading families, 45 per cent of 130 roles. Data centre was the least, 0 per cent.

REMOTE 654 ONSITE 2,948
  • Sales30% remote
  • Software11% remote
  • other14% remote
  • Solutions & Field21% remote
  • Machine learning21% remote
  • Security19% remote
  • Finance29% remote
  • Legal & Compliance45% remote
  • Data centre0% remote
  • Product13% remote

Visa sponsorship

117 of the 138 roles that addressed it say they sponsor (85%). Most postings say nothing either way.

Read only across postings that took a position either way, not the whole board.

138 postings addressed visa sponsorship, 4 per cent of the board. 85 per cent of those offered it. Backend offered it most often, 100 per cent of 12 postings that said either way.

LOWHIGH
SPONSORS DOES NOT
other 15 6
Machine learning 19 1
Sales 8 6
Backend 12
Software 11 1
Finance 9 1
DevOps & SRE 10
Product 6

Tech demand over time

This week's top technologies, tracked since the archive began.

AWSPythonJavaDistributed systemsLLM / GenAISQL

This week's leading technologies, tracked across every week on record.

Python grew fastest over the 7 weeks on record, from 657 mentions to 3,604, up 449 per cent. AWS grew slowest, up 195 per cent. The board itself grew over the same period.

Tech × role

Open postings pairing each technology with each role family, this week.

LOWHIGH

This week's leading technologies against its leading role families. Darker cells mean more postings asking for both.

AWS and Software was the commonest pairing, 169 postings asking for both. Java was the most concentrated, 44 per cent of its mentions in Software.

SalesSoftwareSolutions & FieldMachine learningSecurityFinance
AWS 4216913426676
Python 2147109112424
Java 165343224
Distributed systems 141222810
LLM / GenAI 5468097162
SQL 7416741411
C++ 114183718
GCP 43517118245

Counts are whole open postings. Percentages compare against the immediately preceding week. Salary figures are an annualised, currency-converted estimate. A "New" badge means the item was absent from last week's top set, not that the posting is new.