TopRoles/EU

Week of 31 August 2026

Week 36 · 31 Aug – 7 Sept

10,376 open roles across 201 companies. 1,047 opened, 1,031 closed.

This week in brief

Total volume

10,376 open roles

1,047 opened / 1,031 closed
Top location

The UK: 2,677 roles

26% of the total · Germany and Ireland follow
Role family

Sales: 1,566 roles

+14% on last week
Top technology

Python: 1,920 mentions

+2% on last week
Compensation

Consulting leads

Market-wide median €93,996

€77k€188k

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 2,677 open roles, 26 per cent of the total. Germany followed at 2,455, Ireland at 695. The top three markets accounted for 57 per cent of all roles. Switzerland grew fastest, up 35 per cent to 279. Sweden fell furthest, down 3 per cent to 334. Two of the top ten lost ground.

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 1,566 open roles. Software followed at 1,269. The three largest families accounted for 38 per cent of the board. Sales grew fastest, up 14 per cent to 1,566. AI / ML moved least, up 1 per cent.

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.

Top technologies this week

Explicit mentions across open postings, counted once per listing.

Python was named in 1,920 open postings, the most of any technology. AWS followed at 1,508, 1.3 times behind. Distributed systems rose fastest, up 7 per cent to 855. All 8 leading technologies gained on the week.

Hiring flow

Roles opened against roles closed, by week.

Opened Closed

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 1380 postings that stated a figure. Each bar spans the 25th–75th percentile. Roles with fewer than 5 priced postings are omitted.

Consulting paid most, €77k to €188k across the middle half of 11 postings. The market median was €93,996 across 1,380 postings that stated a figure. Marketing paid least of the families shown, 29 per cent below Consulting at the median.

€0€50k€100k€150k€200k

Remote

1,519 of 10,376 open roles are remote (15%). ↑ +1pts vs last week

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

15 per cent of open roles were remote, 1,519 of 10,376. Solutions & Field was the most remote of the leading families, 24 per cent of 733 roles. Other roles was the least, 8 per cent.

Remote 1,519 Onsite 8,857
  • Sales21% remote
  • Software10% remote
  • Other roles8% remote
  • Solutions & Field24% remote
  • AI / ML14% remote
  • Support11% remote
  • Finance14% remote
  • Product14% remote
  • Marketing22% remote
  • Security16% remote

Visa and relocation support

227 of the 354 roles that addressed it say they offer it (64%). Most postings say nothing either way. ↑ +1pts vs last week

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

354 postings addressed visa or relocation support, 3 per cent of the board. 64 per cent of those offered it. Backend offered it most often, 100 per cent of 19 postings that said either way.

LowHigh
Offers it Does not
Sales 29 13
Software 9 33
AI / ML 27 14
DevOps & SRE 14 11
Finance 17 3
Other roles 12 8
Backend 19
Product 17 2

Tech demand over time

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

PythonAWSLLM / GenAISQLDistributed systemsJava

LLM / GenAI grew fastest over the 13 weeks on record, from 427 mentions to 2,539, up 495 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.

LowHigh

Python and Software was the commonest pairing, 431 postings asking for both. Java was the most concentrated, 44 per cent of its mentions in Software.

SalesSoftwareSolutions & FieldAI / MLSupportFinance
Python 54312753722528
AWS 6831624778318
LLM / GenAI 521821832301213
SQL 301131401241846
Distributed systems 33334765109
Java 236567567
GCP 8514816476119
Kubernetes 32036569102

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.

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