Week of 10 August 2026
5,949 open roles across 71 companies. 0 opened, 176 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.
28,481 roles were open at the close of the week, down 2 per cent on the previous week's 29,166. Weekly growth was -685 roles, against an average of 2,111 over the preceding weeks. 13 weeks ago the board held 5,949.
Roles by country
Top 10 countries by open roles this week. All countries
Where the role is based, not where the employer is headquartered.
The UK led with 1,745 open roles, 29 per cent of the total. Germany followed at 806, Ireland at 621. The top three markets accounted for 54 per cent of all roles.
- 1,745 29%
- 806 14%
- 621 10%
- 522 9%
- 362 6%
- 324 5%
- 278 5%
- 175 3%
- 131 2%
- 123 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 925 open roles. Software followed at 741. The three largest families accounted for 40 per cent of the board.
- 925
- 741
- 504
- 353
- 279
- 263
- 254
- 252
Seniority this week
Open roles by seniority band, and how they moved.
Every open posting is mapped to one band from its title and description; postings with no stated level are not counted.
- 164
- 112
- 2,614
- 1,462
- 225
- 138
- 560
- 274
Top technologies this week
Explicit mentions across open postings, counted once per listing.
Python was named in 953 open postings, the most of any technology. AWS followed at 940, 1.0 times behind.
- 953
- 940
- 526
- 449
- 449
- 446
- 427
- 412
Hiring flow
Roles opened against roles closed, by week.
3,310 roles opened and 4,087 closed, a net loss of 777. Openings were up 29 per cent on the previous week's 2,567. Net additions fell from -821 to -777. Closures cover filled, cancelled and expired postings alike.
Salaries
Annualised EUR estimate from the 584 postings that stated a figure. Each bar spans the 25th–75th percentile. Roles with fewer than 5 priced postings are omitted.
Engineering management paid most, €129k to €141k across the middle half of 14 postings. The market median was €105,300 across 584 postings that stated a figure. Backend paid least of the families shown, 23 per cent below Engineering management at the median.
- Engineering management €129k – €141k
- Solutions & Field €108k – €157k
- AI / ML €95k – €155k
- Data €85k – €149k
- Security €95k – €135k
- Marketing €102k – €136k
- Software €85k – €130k
- Backend €91k – €129k
Remote
992 of 5,949 open roles are remote (17%).
Counted remote only where the posting says so explicitly; anything ambiguous is treated as onsite.
17 per cent of open roles were remote, 992 of 5,949. Legal & Compliance was the most remote of the leading families, 44 per cent of 263 roles. Data centre was the least, 0 per cent.
Visa and relocation support
155 of the 194 roles that addressed it say they offer it (80%). Most postings say nothing either way.
Read only across postings that took a position either way, not the whole board.
194 postings addressed visa or relocation support, 3 per cent of the board. 80 per cent of those offered it. Product offered it most often, 100 per cent of 15 postings that said either way.
Tech demand over time
This week's top technologies, tracked since the archive began.
Python grew fastest over the 13 weeks on record, from 953 mentions to 5,198, up 445 per cent. Java grew slowest, up 220 per cent. The board itself grew over the same period.
Tech × role
Open postings pairing each technology with each role family, this week. Darker cells mean more postings asking for both.
Java and Software was the commonest pairing, 225 postings asking for both. Java was the most concentrated, 43 per cent of its mentions in Software.
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.
All weekly reports
13 weeks · newest first
- 2 Nov – 9 Nov 28,481 open roles +3,310 −4,087
- 26 Oct – 2 Nov 29,166 open roles +2,567 −3,388
- 19 Oct – 26 Oct 28,549 open roles +3,282 −3,436
- 12 Oct – 19 Oct 28,539 open roles +3,022 −3,067
- 5 Oct – 12 Oct 28,278 open roles +2,927 −3,126
- 28 Sept – 5 Oct 26,954 open roles +2,517 −3,423
- 21 Sept – 28 Sept 21,659 open roles +1,980 −2,145
- 14 Sept – 21 Sept 18,131 open roles +1,649 −2,041
- 7 Sept – 14 Sept 13,154 open roles +1,271 −1,312
- 31 Aug – 7 Sept 10,376 open roles +1,047 −1,031
- 24 Aug – 31 Aug 9,784 open roles +840 −902
- 17 Aug – 24 Aug 6,448 open roles +717 −760
- 10 Aug – 17 Aug viewing 5,949 open roles +0 −176
