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 4,107 open roles, 22 per cent of the total. The UK followed at 3,941, France at 1,723. The top three markets accounted for 52 per cent of all roles. Italy grew fastest, up 220 per cent to 566.
- 4,107 22%🇩🇪 Germany
- 3,941 21%🇬🇧 the UK
- 1,723 9%🇫🇷 France
- 1,138 6%🇮🇪 Ireland
- 1,119 6%🇳🇱 the Netherlands
- 1,021 5%🇪🇸 Spain
- 906 5%🇵🇱 Poland
- 566 3%🇮🇹 Italy
- 537 3%🇸🇪 Sweden
- 497 3%🇨🇭 Switzerland
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 2,280 open roles. Sales followed at 2,264. The three largest families accounted for 36 per cent of the board. Finance grew fastest, up 156 per cent to 1,064. Manufacturing moved least, up 7 per cent.
- 2,280 ↑ +37%Software
- 2,264 ↑ +49%Sales
- 1,350 ↑ +51%Machine learning
- 1,064 ↑ +156%Finance
- 1,034 ↑ +29%Solutions & Field
- 749 ↑ +7%Manufacturing
- 654 ↑ +44%Support
- 598 ↑ +51%Security
Top technologies this week
Mentions across open postings.
Explicit mentions of a technology across open postings, counted once per listing.
Python was named in 3,185 open postings, the most of any technology. AWS followed at 2,012, 1.6 times behind. Kubernetes rose fastest, up 58 per cent to 1,216. All 8 leading technologies gained on the week.
- 3,185 ↑ +45%Python
- 2,012 ↑ +36%AWS
- 1,526 ↑ +44%LLM / GenAI
- 1,301 ↑ +52%SQL
- 1,225 ↑ +57%CI/CD
- 1,216 ↑ +58%Kubernetes
- 1,203 ↑ +29%Distributed systems
- 1,166 ↑ +31%Java
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 1454 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.
Design paid most, €78k to €149k across the middle half of 8 postings. The market median was €103,600 across 1,454 postings that stated a figure, up 2 per cent on the week. other paid least of the families shown, 38 per cent below Design at the median.
- Design €78k – €149k
- Manufacturing €61k – €191k
- Frontend €109k – €135k
- Sales €81k – €180k
- Solutions & Field €99k – €149k
- Software €87k – €150k
- Engineering management €94k – €141k
- other €57k – €154k
Remote
2,359 of 19,193 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, 2,359 of 19,193. Solutions & Field was the most remote of the leading families, 28 per cent of 1,034 roles. Manufacturing was the least, 1 per cent.
Visa sponsorship
233 of the 432 roles that addressed it say they sponsor (54%). Most postings say nothing either way.
Read only across postings that took a position either way, not the whole board.
432 postings addressed visa sponsorship, 2 per cent of the board. 54 per cent of those offered it. Backend offered it most often, 91 per cent of 22 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.
CI/CD grew fastest over the 7 weeks on record, from 181 mentions to 1,372, up 658 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 Machine learning was the commonest pairing, 661 postings asking for both. Java was the most concentrated, 42 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.
