ISO WEEK 37 · 7 SEPT–14 SEPT

Week of 7 September 2026

12,561 open roles across 261 companies. 3,598 opened, 1,649 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 3,194 open roles, 26 per cent of the total. The UK followed at 2,908, France at 852. The top three markets accounted for 56 per cent of all roles. France grew fastest, up 54 per cent to 852. Lithuania fell furthest, down 2 per cent to 214. One of the top ten lost ground.

  • 🇩🇪 Germany
    3,194 26%
  • 🇬🇧 the UK
    2,908 23%
  • 🇫🇷 France
    852 7%
  • 🇮🇪 Ireland
    829 7%
  • 🇪🇸 Spain
    676 5%
  • 🇳🇱 the Netherlands
    676 5%
  • 🇵🇱 Poland
    453 4%
  • 🇸🇪 Sweden
    432 3%
  • 🇨🇭 Switzerland
    315 3%
  • 🇱🇹 Lithuania
    214 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 1,670 open roles. Sales followed at 1,521. The three largest families accounted for 37 per cent of the board. Skilled trades grew fastest, up 44 per cent to 494. Manufacturing moved least, up 11 per cent.

  • Software
    1,670 ↑ +26%
  • Sales
    1,521 ↑ +22%
  • Machine learning
    896 ↑ +25%
  • Solutions & Field
    803 ↑ +27%
  • Manufacturing
    697 ↑ +11%
  • Skilled trades
    494 ↑ +44%
  • Support
    454 ↑ +29%
  • Finance
    415 ↑ +27%

Top technologies this week

Mentions across open postings.

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

Python was named in 2,192 open postings, the most of any technology. AWS followed at 1,476, 1.5 times behind. Python rose fastest, up 32 per cent to 2,192. All 8 leading technologies gained on the week.

  • Python
    2,192 ↑ +32%
  • AWS
    1,476 ↑ +9%
  • LLM / GenAI
    1,063 ↑ +18%
  • Distributed systems
    936 ↑ +27%
  • Java
    889 ↑ +25%
  • SQL
    857 ↑ +18%
  • CI/CD
    778 ↑ +27%
  • Kubernetes
    772 ↑ +26%

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 1072 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, €73k to €191k across the middle half of 7 postings. The market median was €101,900 across 1,072 postings that stated a figure, up 2 per cent on the week. DevOps & SRE paid least of the families shown, 68 per cent below Manufacturing at the median.

  • Manufacturing €73k – €191k
  • Sales €73k – €200k
  • Solutions & Field €108k – €149k
  • Software €87k – €151k
  • Frontend €109k – €133k
  • other €60k – €155k
  • Machine learning €77k – €151k
  • DevOps & SRE €88k – €134k
€0€50k€100k€150k€200k

Remote

1,603 of 12,561 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, 1,603 of 12,561. Solutions & Field was the most remote of the leading families, 27 per cent of 803 roles. Skilled trades was the least, 0 per cent.

REMOTE 1,603 ONSITE 10,958
  • Software8% remote
  • Sales24% remote
  • other9% remote
  • Machine learning14% remote
  • Solutions & Field27% remote
  • Manufacturing0% remote
  • Skilled trades0% remote
  • Support12% remote
  • Finance11% remote
  • Security14% remote

Visa sponsorship

196 of the 329 roles that addressed it say they sponsor (60%). Most postings say nothing either way.

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

329 postings addressed visa sponsorship, 3 per cent of the board. 60 per cent of those offered it. Backend offered it most often, 95 per cent of 20 postings that said either way.

LOWHIGH
SPONSORS DOES NOT
Software 13 37
Machine learning 38 11
other 23 14
Sales 19 13
Backend 19 1
DevOps & SRE 9 8
Finance 12 1
Solutions & Field 5 7

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

SoftwareSalesMachine learningSolutions & FieldManufacturingSkilled trades
Python 4796444300251
AWS 34254115242175
LLM / GenAI 1693929820210
Distributed systems 3472396629
Java 390272644
SQL 1092513912711
CI/CD 260476463
Kubernetes 224411468

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.