TopRoles/EU

Week of 7 September 2026

Week 37 · 7 Sept – 14 Sept

13,154 open roles across 261 companies. 1,271 opened, 1,312 closed.

This week in brief

Total volume

13,154 open roles

1,271 opened / 1,312 closed
Top location

The UK: 3,391 roles

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

Sales: 2,012 roles

+28% on last week
Top technology

Python: 2,564 mentions

+34% on last week
Compensation

Solutions & Field leads

Market-wide median €93,996

€90k€152k

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 3,391 open roles, 26 per cent of the total. Germany followed at 2,770, Ireland at 975. The top three markets accounted for 55 per cent of all roles. France grew fastest, up 56 per cent to 886.

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 2,012 open roles. Software followed at 1,678. The three largest families accounted for 39 per cent of the board. Software grew fastest, up 32 per cent to 1,678. Finance moved least, up 16 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 2,564 open postings, the most of any technology. AWS followed at 1,677, 1.5 times behind. Python rose fastest, up 34 per cent to 2,564. 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 1593 postings that stated a figure. Each bar spans the 25th–75th percentile. Roles with fewer than 5 priced postings are omitted.

Solutions & Field paid most, €90k to €152k across the middle half of 101 postings. The market median was €93,996 across 1,593 postings that stated a figure. DevOps & SRE paid least of the families shown, 26 per cent below Solutions & Field at the median.

€0€50k€100k€150k€200k

Remote

1,854 of 13,154 open roles are remote (14%). ↓ -1pts vs last week

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

14 per cent of open roles were remote, 1,854 of 13,154. Solutions & Field was the most remote of the leading families, 26 per cent of 909 roles. Other roles was the least, 9 per cent.

Remote 1,854 Onsite 11,300
  • Sales21% remote
  • Software9% remote
  • Other roles9% remote
  • Solutions & Field26% remote
  • AI / ML11% remote
  • Support13% remote
  • Finance13% remote
  • Product12% remote
  • Security14% remote
  • Marketing19% remote

Visa and relocation support

238 of the 385 roles that addressed it say they offer it (62%). Most postings say nothing either way. ↓ -2pts vs last week

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

385 postings addressed visa or relocation support, 3 per cent of the board. 62 per cent of those offered it. Backend offered it most often, 95 per cent of 20 postings that said either way.

LowHigh
Offers it Does not
Sales 28 19
Software 9 38
AI / ML 34 12
Other roles 12 16
DevOps & SRE 14 11
Product 19 2
Backend 19 1
Finance 16 1

Tech demand over time

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

PythonAWSLLM / GenAIDistributed systemsSQLJava

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, 563 postings asking for both. Java was the most concentrated, 44 per cent of its mentions in Software.

SalesSoftwareSolutions & FieldAI / MLSupportFinance
Python 85633244642935
AWS 7435827484307
LLM / GenAI 602072162712024
Distributed systems 344207479910
SQL 321391451492359
Java 245977658
Kubernetes 102688489172
GCP 9416818473118

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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