Week of 21 September 2026
21,659 open roles across 446 companies. 1,980 opened, 2,145 closed.
This week in brief
21,659 open roles
1,980 opened / 2,145 closed
The UK: 4,733 roles
22% of the total · Germany and France follow
Sales: 2,951 roles
+15% on last week
Python: 3,831 mentions
+12% on last week
Engineering management leads
Market-wide median €92,000
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 4,733 open roles, 22 per cent of the total. Germany followed at 4,185, France at 1,986. The top three markets accounted for 52 per cent of all roles. Sweden grew fastest, up 24 per cent to 620.
- 4,733 22%
- 4,185 20%
- 1,986 9%
- 1,274 6%
- 1,246 6%
- 1,242 6%
- 1,026 5%
- 645 3%
- 620 3%
- 532 3%
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 2,951 open roles. Software followed at 2,655. The three largest families accounted for 37 per cent of the board. Operations grew fastest, up 97 per cent to 1,071. Finance moved least, up 6 per cent.
- 2,951 ↑ +15%
- 2,655 ↑ +21%
- 1,621 ↑ +44%
- 1,274 ↑ +6%
- 1,269 ↑ +13%
- 1,071 ↑ +97%
- 757 ↑ +12%
- 734 ↑ +18%
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.
- 1,351 ↑ +16%
- 405 ↑ +22%
- 8,979 ↑ +24%
- 4,822 ↑ +12%
- 613 ↑ +18%
- 443 ↑ +7%
- 1,980 ↑ +17%
- 852 ↑ +17%
Top technologies this week
Explicit mentions across open postings, counted once per listing.
Python was named in 3,831 open postings, the most of any technology. AWS followed at 2,489, 1.5 times behind. GCP rose fastest, up 30 per cent to 1,484. All 8 leading technologies gained on the week.
- 3,831 ↑ +12%
- 2,489 ↑ +19%
- 1,891 ↑ +18%
- 1,671 ↑ +27%
- 1,656 ↑ +17%
- 1,513 ↑ +16%
- 1,484 ↑ +30%
- 1,474 ↑ +28%
Hiring flow
Roles opened against roles closed, by week.
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 2513 postings that stated a figure. Each bar spans the 25th–75th percentile. Roles with fewer than 5 priced postings are omitted.
Engineering management paid most, €97k to €140k across the middle half of 81 postings. The market median was €92,000 across 2,513 postings that stated a figure, down 3 per cent on the week. Software paid least of the families shown, 19 per cent below Engineering management at the median.
- Engineering management €97k – €140k
- Solutions & Field €87k – €143k
- Sales €70k – €147k
- Product €79k – €121k
- AI / ML €75k – €147k
- Frontend €80k – €109k
- Design €70k – €145k
- Software €72k – €133k
Remote
3,754 of 21,659 open roles are remote (17%). ↑ +3pts vs last week
Counted remote only where the posting says so explicitly; anything ambiguous is treated as onsite.
17 per cent of open roles were remote, 3,754 of 21,659. Solutions & Field was the most remote of the leading families, 27 per cent of 1,269 roles. Finance was the least, 8 per cent.
Visa and relocation support
276 of the 793 roles that addressed it say they offer it (35%). Most postings say nothing either way. ↓ -4pts vs last week
Read only across postings that took a position either way, not the whole board.
793 postings addressed visa or relocation support, 4 per cent of the board. 35 per cent of those offered it. AI / ML offered it most often, 64 per cent of 73 postings that said either way.
Tech demand over time
This week's top technologies, tracked since the archive began.
CI/CD grew fastest over the 13 weeks on record, from 257 mentions to 2,141, up 733 per cent. AWS grew slowest, up 235 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.
Python and Software was the commonest pairing, 841 postings asking for both. CI/CD was the most concentrated, 31 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.
All weekly reports
13 weeks · newest first
- 2 Nov – 9 Nov 28,481 open roles +3,310 −4,087
- 26 Oct – 2 Nov 29,166 open roles +2,567 −3,388
- 19 Oct – 26 Oct 28,549 open roles +3,282 −3,436
- 12 Oct – 19 Oct 28,539 open roles +3,022 −3,067
- 5 Oct – 12 Oct 28,278 open roles +2,927 −3,126
- 28 Sept – 5 Oct 26,954 open roles +2,517 −3,423
- 21 Sept – 28 Sept viewing 21,659 open roles +1,980 −2,145
- 14 Sept – 21 Sept 18,131 open roles +1,649 −2,041
- 7 Sept – 14 Sept 13,154 open roles +1,271 −1,312
- 31 Aug – 7 Sept 10,376 open roles +1,047 −1,031
- 24 Aug – 31 Aug 9,784 open roles +840 −902
- 17 Aug – 24 Aug 6,448 open roles +717 −760
- 10 Aug – 17 Aug 5,949 open roles +0 −176
