ISO WEEK 39 · 21 SEPT–28 SEPT

Week of 21 September 2026

20,212 open roles across 382 companies. 3,205 opened, 2,652 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 4,378 open roles, 22 per cent of the total. The UK followed at 4,167, France at 1,854. The top three markets accounted for 53 per cent of all roles. Sweden grew fastest, up 11 per cent to 597. Switzerland fell furthest, down 6 per cent to 468. Two of the top ten lost ground.

  • 🇩🇪 Germany
    4,378 22%
  • 🇬🇧 the UK
    4,167 21%
  • 🇫🇷 France
    1,854 9%
  • 🇳🇱 the Netherlands
    1,228 6%
  • 🇮🇪 Ireland
    1,124 6%
  • 🇪🇸 Spain
    1,072 5%
  • 🇵🇱 Poland
    942 5%
  • 🇸🇪 Sweden
    597 3%
  • 🇮🇹 Italy
    593 3%
  • 🇨🇭 Switzerland
    468 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 2,438 open roles. Sales followed at 2,382. The three largest families accounted for 37 per cent of the board. Marketing grew fastest, up 10 per cent to 637. Support moved least, up 2 per cent.

  • Software
    2,438 ↑ +7%
  • Sales
    2,382 ↑ +5%
  • Machine learning
    1,475 ↑ +9%
  • Solutions & Field
    1,116 ↑ +8%
  • Finance
    1,106 ↑ +4%
  • Manufacturing
    765 ↑ +2%
  • Support
    666 ↑ +2%
  • Marketing
    637 ↑ +10%

Top technologies this week

Mentions across open postings.

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

Python was named in 3,604 open postings, the most of any technology. AWS followed at 2,180, 1.7 times behind. Python rose fastest, up 13 per cent to 3,604. All 8 leading technologies gained on the week.

  • Python
    3,604 ↑ +13%
  • AWS
    2,180 ↑ +8%
  • LLM / GenAI
    1,666 ↑ +9%
  • SQL
    1,464 ↑ +13%
  • CI/CD
    1,372 ↑ +12%
  • Kubernetes
    1,320 ↑ +9%
  • Java
    1,253 ↑ +7%
  • Distributed systems
    1,242 ↑ +3%

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 1856 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, €61k to €191k across the middle half of 10 postings. The market median was €98,865 across 1,856 postings that stated a figure, down 5 per cent on the week. Full stack paid least of the families shown, 15 per cent below Manufacturing at the median.

  • Manufacturing €61k – €191k
  • Sales €75k – €150k
  • Frontend €100k – €137k
  • Software €87k – €150k
  • Solutions & Field €88k – €145k
  • Engineering management €94k – €150k
  • Design €78k – €146k
  • Full stack €72k – €135k
€0€50k€100k€150k€200k

Remote

2,593 of 20,212 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, 2,593 of 20,212. Solutions & Field was the most remote of the leading families, 26 per cent of 1,116 roles. Manufacturing was the least, 1 per cent.

REMOTE 2,593 ONSITE 17,619
  • other7% remote
  • Software11% remote
  • Sales21% remote
  • Machine learning14% remote
  • Solutions & Field26% remote
  • Finance8% remote
  • Manufacturing1% remote
  • Support15% remote
  • Marketing18% remote
  • Security14% remote

Visa sponsorship

244 of the 514 roles that addressed it say they sponsor (47%). Most postings say nothing either way.

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

514 postings addressed visa sponsorship, 3 per cent of the board. 47 per cent of those offered it. Backend offered it most often, 76 per cent of 25 postings that said either way.

LOWHIGH
SPONSORS DOES NOT
Software 15 63
Machine learning 47 18
other 31 34
Sales 24 25
Backend 19 6
DevOps & SRE 13 10
Finance 15 6
Operations 2 19

Tech demand over time

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

PythonAWSLLM / GenAISQLCI/CDKubernetes

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.

LOWHIGH

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, 790 postings asking for both. Java was the most concentrated, 42 per cent of its mentions in Software.

SoftwareSalesMachine learningSolutions & FieldFinanceManufacturing
Python 719197903755233
AWS 457602193221322
LLM / GenAI 229465292553511
SQL 195372451616811
CI/CD 41841957046
Kubernetes 360319712361
Java 5261129824
Distributed systems 44524124831011

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.