ISO WEEK 40 · 28 SEPT–5 OCT

Week of 28 September 2026

19,931 open roles across 386 companies. 2,348 opened, 3,232 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.

19,931 roles were open at the close of the week, down 1 per cent on the previous week's 20,127. Weekly growth was -196 roles, against an average of 2,754 over the preceding weeks. Eight 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 4,222 open roles, 22 per cent of the total. The UK followed at 4,181, France at 1,765. The top three markets accounted for 52 per cent of all roles. Ireland grew fastest, up 5 per cent to 1,174. The Netherlands fell furthest, down 5 per cent to 1,163. Six of the top ten lost ground.

  • 🇩🇪 Germany
    4,222 22%
  • 🇬🇧 the UK
    4,181 21%
  • 🇫🇷 France
    1,765 9%
  • 🇮🇪 Ireland
    1,174 6%
  • 🇳🇱 the Netherlands
    1,163 6%
  • 🇪🇸 Spain
    1,049 5%
  • 🇵🇱 Poland
    936 5%
  • 🇸🇪 Sweden
    610 3%
  • 🇮🇹 Italy
    577 3%
  • 🇨🇭 Switzerland
    491 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.

Software was the largest role family at 2,712 open roles. Sales followed at 2,405. The three largest families accounted for 36 per cent of the board. Software grew fastest, up 6 per cent to 2,712. Manufacturing moved least, down 15 per cent.

  • Software
    2,712 ↑ +6%
  • Sales
    2,405 ↑ +1%
  • Machine learning
    1,479 ↑ +1%
  • Finance
    1,221 ↓ -1%
  • Solutions & Field
    1,118 ↓ -1%
  • Security
    688 ↑ +3%
  • Manufacturing
    651 ↓ -15%
  • Marketing
    631 ↓ -3%

Top technologies this week

Mentions across open postings.

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

Python was named in 3,553 open postings, the most of any technology. AWS followed at 2,154, 1.6 times behind. LLM / GenAI rose fastest, up 0 per cent to 1,662. Zero of the 8 leading technologies gained on the week.

  • Python
    3,553 ↓ -1%
  • AWS
    2,154 ↓ -1%
  • LLM / GenAI
    1,662 ↓ 0%
  • SQL
    1,439 ↓ -2%
  • CI/CD
    1,363 ↓ 0%
  • Kubernetes
    1,293 ↓ -2%
  • Java
    1,259 ↑ 0%
  • Distributed systems
    1,244 ↑ 0%

Hiring flow

Roles opened against roles closed, by week.

Opened Closed

Roles that first appeared on the board against roles removed from it.

2,348 roles opened and 3,232 closed, a net loss of 884. Openings were down 27 per cent on the previous week's 3,196. Net additions fell from 451 to -884. Closures cover filled, cancelled and expired postings alike.

Salaries

Annualised EUR estimate from the 1890 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.

Sales paid most, €81k to €168k across the middle half of 277 postings. The market median was €98,500 across 1,890 postings that stated a figure, up 0 per cent on the week. Machine learning paid least of the families shown, 17 per cent below Sales at the median.

  • Sales €81k – €168k
  • Frontend €77k – €132k
  • Software €81k – €149k
  • Solutions & Field €88k – €137k
  • Engineering management €94k – €158k
  • Full stack €79k – €135k
  • other €50k – €136k
  • Machine learning €76k – €149k
€0€50k€100k€150k€200k

Remote

2,486 of 19,931 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, 2,486 of 19,931. Solutions & Field was the most remote of the leading families, 25 per cent of 1,118 roles. Manufacturing was the least, 1 per cent.

REMOTE 2,486 ONSITE 17,445
  • Software9% remote
  • Sales20% remote
  • other7% remote
  • Machine learning13% remote
  • Finance7% remote
  • Solutions & Field25% remote
  • Security15% remote
  • Manufacturing1% remote
  • Marketing16% remote
  • Support17% remote

Visa sponsorship

223 of the 500 roles that addressed it say they sponsor (45%). Most postings say nothing either way.

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

500 postings addressed visa sponsorship, 3 per cent of the board. 45 per cent of those offered it. Finance offered it most often, 78 per cent of 27 postings that said either way.

LOWHIGH
SPONSORS DOES NOT
Software 13 71
Machine learning 52 22
Sales 21 33
other 14 23
Finance 21 6
DevOps & SRE 12 10
Operations 5 16
Product 10 10

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 8 weeks on record, from 181 mentions to 1,363, up 653 per cent. AWS grew slowest, up 192 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, 829 postings asking for both. Java was the most concentrated, 45 per cent of its mentions in Software.

SoftwareSalesMachine learningFinanceSolutions & FieldSecurity
Python 8291377148362212
AWS 4586220910318214
LLM / GenAI 263505393624575
SQL 210462287515223
CI/CD 429218946695
Kubernetes 3514183412099
Java 5661218574
Distributed systems 4522911498479

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.