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 2,817 open roles, 28 per cent of the total. The UK followed at 2,379, Ireland at 585. The top three markets accounted for 58 per cent of all roles. Switzerland grew fastest, up 44 per cent to 254.
- 2,817 28%🇩🇪 Germany
- 2,379 24%🇬🇧 the UK
- 585 6%🇮🇪 Ireland
- 567 6%🇪🇸 Spain
- 553 6%🇫🇷 France
- 535 5%🇳🇱 the Netherlands
- 349 3%🇸🇪 Sweden
- 305 3%🇵🇱 Poland
- 254 3%🇨🇭 Switzerland
- 218 2%🇱🇹 Lithuania
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 1,323 open roles. Sales followed at 1,247. The three largest families accounted for 37 per cent of the board. Sales grew fastest, up 24 per cent to 1,247. Skilled trades moved least, up 1 per cent.
- 1,323 ↑ +9%Software
- 1,247 ↑ +24%Sales
- 715 ↑ +15%Machine learning
- 631 ↑ +17%Solutions & Field
- 626 ↑ +3%Manufacturing
- 351 ↑ +18%Support
- 342 ↑ +1%Skilled trades
- 328 ↑ +18%Finance
Top technologies this week
Mentions across open postings.
Explicit mentions of a technology across open postings, counted once per listing.
Python was named in 1,660 open postings, the most of any technology. AWS followed at 1,348, 1.2 times behind. SQL rose fastest, up 20 per cent to 728. All 8 leading technologies gained on the week.
- 1,660 ↑ +12%Python
- 1,348 ↑ +14%AWS
- 900 ↑ +14%LLM / GenAI
- 739 ↑ +14%Distributed systems
- 728 ↑ +20%SQL
- 710 ↑ +15%Java
- 678 ↑ +18%GCP
- 612 ↑ +17%CI/CD
Hiring flow
Roles opened against roles closed, by week.
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 950 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.
Manufacturing paid most, €141k to €191k across the middle half of 6 postings. The market median was €100,000 across 950 postings that stated a figure, down 2 per cent on the week. DevOps & SRE paid least of the families shown, 68 per cent below Manufacturing at the median.
- Manufacturing €141k – €191k
- Frontend €115k – €133k
- Solutions & Field €110k – €136k
- Software €87k – €159k
- Sales €75k – €190k
- Product €82k – €137k
- Design €78k – €149k
- DevOps & SRE €87k – €133k
Remote
1,311 of 10,072 open roles are remote (13%).
Counted remote only where the posting says so explicitly; anything ambiguous is treated as onsite.
13 per cent of open roles were remote, 1,311 of 10,072. Sales was the most remote of the leading families, 24 per cent of 1,247 roles. Skilled trades was the least, 0 per cent.
Visa sponsorship
190 of the 297 roles that addressed it say they sponsor (64%). Most postings say nothing either way.
Read only across postings that took a position either way, not the whole board.
297 postings addressed visa sponsorship, 3 per cent of the board. 64 per cent of those offered it. Backend offered it most often, 100 per cent of 18 postings that said either way.
Tech demand over time
This week's top technologies, tracked since the archive began.
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.
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, 371 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.
