Week of 17 August 2026
6,448 open roles across 103 companies. 717 opened, 760 closed.
This week in brief
6,448 open roles
717 opened / 760 closed
The UK: 1,833 roles
29% of the total · Germany and Ireland follow
Sales: 954 roles
+3% on last week
Python: 1,169 mentions
+23% on last week
Consulting leads
Market-wide median €101,100
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 1,833 open roles, 29 per cent of the total. Germany followed at 901, Ireland at 622. The top three markets accounted for 52 per cent of all roles. Romania grew fastest, up 21 per cent to 132.
- 1,833 29%
- 901 14%
- 622 10%
- 526 8%
- 381 6%
- 374 6%
- 302 5%
- 180 3%
- 152 2%
- 132 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 954 open roles. Software followed at 796. The three largest families accounted for 38 per cent of the board. Security grew fastest, up 9 per cent to 276. Finance moved least, up 1 per cent.
- 954 ↑ +3%
- 796 ↑ +7%
- 524 ↑ +4%
- 374 ↑ +6%
- 282 ↑ +1%
- 279 ↑ +6%
- 276 ↑ +9%
- 265 ↑ +5%
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.
- 185 ↑ +13%
- 106 ↓ -5%
- 2,810 ↑ +7%
- 1,603 ↑ +10%
- 221 ↓ -2%
- 141 ↑ +2%
- 601 ↑ +7%
- 312 ↑ +14%
Top technologies this week
Explicit mentions across open postings, counted once per listing.
Python was named in 1,169 open postings, the most of any technology. AWS followed at 1,094, 1.1 times behind. GCP rose fastest, up 27 per cent to 570. All 8 leading technologies gained on the week.
- 1,169 ↑ +23%
- 1,094 ↑ +16%
- 619 ↑ +18%
- 570 ↑ +27%
- 552 ↑ +23%
- 508 ↑ +14%
- 504 ↑ +27%
- 502 ↑ +18%
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 761 postings that stated a figure. Each bar spans the 25th–75th percentile. Roles with fewer than 5 priced postings are omitted.
Consulting paid most, €97k to €164k across the middle half of 7 postings. The market median was €101,100 across 761 postings that stated a figure, down 4 per cent on the week. Security paid least of the families shown, 46 per cent below Consulting at the median.
- Consulting €97k – €164k
- Engineering management €109k – €140k
- AI / ML €106k – €155k
- Solutions & Field €98k – €157k
- Design €110k – €149k
- Operations €59k – €119k
- Frontend €94k – €146k
- Security €89k – €136k
Remote
1,105 of 6,448 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, 1,105 of 6,448. Legal & Compliance was the most remote of the leading families, 42 per cent of 279 roles. Data centre was the least, 0 per cent.
Visa and relocation support
189 of the 234 roles that addressed it say they offer it (81%). Most postings say nothing either way. ↑ +1pts vs last week
Read only across postings that took a position either way, not the whole board.
234 postings addressed visa or relocation support, 4 per cent of the board. 81 per cent of those offered it. Backend offered it most often, 100 per cent of 16 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, 269 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 viewing 6,448 open roles +717 −760
- 10 Aug – 17 Aug 5,949 open roles +0 −176
