ISO WEEK 35 · 24 AUG–31 AUG

Week of 24 August 2026

8,727 open roles across 178 companies. 4,350 opened, 1,041 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.

Germany led with 2,468 open roles, 28 per cent of the total. The UK followed at 2,107, Spain at 503. The top three markets accounted for 59 per cent of all roles. Germany grew fastest, up 271 per cent to 2,468.

  • 🇩🇪 Germany
    2,468 28%
  • 🇬🇧 the UK
    2,107 24%
  • 🇪🇸 Spain
    503 6%
  • 🇫🇷 France
    494 6%
  • 🇮🇪 Ireland
    472 5%
  • 🇳🇱 the Netherlands
    464 5%
  • 🇸🇪 Sweden
    322 4%
  • 🇵🇱 Poland
    258 3%
  • 🇱🇹 Lithuania
    190 2%
  • 🇨🇭 Switzerland
    176 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.

Software was the largest role family at 1,213 open roles. Sales followed at 1,007. The three largest families accounted for 37 per cent of the board. Manufacturing grew fastest, up 755 per cent to 607. Solutions & Field moved least, up 52 per cent.

  • Software
    1,213 ↑ +98%
  • Sales
    1,007 ↑ +64%
  • Machine learning
    623 ↑ +113%
  • Manufacturing
    607 ↑ +536
  • Solutions & Field
    540 ↑ +52%
  • Skilled trades
    339 ↑ +327
  • Support
    298 ↑ +176%
  • Finance
    277 ↑ +74%

Top technologies this week

Mentions across open postings.

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

Python was named in 1,487 open postings, the most of any technology. AWS followed at 1,185, 1.3 times behind. LLM / GenAI rose fastest, up 116 per cent to 787. All 8 leading technologies gained on the week.

  • Python
    1,487 ↑ +84%
  • AWS
    1,185 ↑ +38%
  • LLM / GenAI
    787 ↑ +116%
  • Distributed systems
    650 ↑ +66%
  • Java
    616 ↑ +41%
  • SQL
    607 ↑ +58%
  • GCP
    577 ↑ +57%
  • Kubernetes
    526 ↑ +89%

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 765 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.

Sales paid most, €95k to €254k across the middle half of 70 postings. The market median was €102,375 across 765 postings that stated a figure, down 9 per cent on the week. Engineering management paid least of the families shown, 33 per cent below Sales at the median.

  • Sales €95k – €254k
  • Frontend €115k – €125k
  • Solutions & Field €110k – €136k
  • Software €87k – €159k
  • other €81k – €176k
  • Design €78k – €149k
  • Product €82k – €141k
  • Engineering management €85k – €140k
€0€50k€100k€150k€200k

Remote

1,079 of 8,727 open roles are remote (12%).

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

12 per cent of open roles were remote, 1,079 of 8,727. Solutions & Field was the most remote of the leading families, 23 per cent of 540 roles. Skilled trades was the least, 0 per cent.

REMOTE 1,079 ONSITE 7,648
  • Software9% remote
  • Sales22% remote
  • other10% remote
  • Machine learning15% remote
  • Manufacturing0% remote
  • Solutions & Field23% remote
  • Skilled trades0% remote
  • Support8% remote
  • Finance17% remote
  • Security16% remote

Visa sponsorship

166 of the 263 roles that addressed it say they sponsor (63%). Most postings say nothing either way.

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

263 postings addressed visa sponsorship, 3 per cent of the board. 63 per cent of those offered it. Backend offered it most often, 100 per cent of 15 postings that said either way.

LOWHIGH
SPONSORS DOES NOT
Software 13 33
Machine learning 29 12
other 18 12
Sales 19 6
DevOps & SRE 10 7
Backend 15
Finance 12 1
Data 2 8

Tech demand over time

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

PythonAWSLLM / GenAIDistributed systemsJavaSQL

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.

Python and Software was the commonest pairing, 342 postings asking for both. Java was the most concentrated, 46 per cent of its mentions in Software.

SoftwareSalesMachine learningManufacturingSolutions & FieldSkilled trades
Python 3423330212051
AWS 2865382141845
LLM / GenAI 135362209137
Distributed systems 261361933
Java 28450545
SQL 761696996
GCP 10460701117
Kubernetes 15518554

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.