Job demand over time
Total open roles, week by week.
Open roles still live at each week's close, not new postings that week.
31,987 roles were open at the close of the week, up 9 per cent on the previous week's 29,308. Weekly growth was 2,679 roles, against an average of 3,415 over the preceding weeks. Ten weeks ago the board held 1,992.
Roles by country
Top 10 countries by open roles this week. All countries →
Where the role is based, not where the employer is headquartered.
Germany led with 6,542 open roles, 21 per cent of the total. The UK followed at 5,951, France at 3,415. The top three markets accounted for 51 per cent of all roles. The Netherlands grew fastest, up 14 per cent to 2,063.
- 6,542 21%
- 5,951 19%
- 3,415 11%
- 2,063 7%
- 1,850 6%
- 1,519 5%
- 1,504 5%
- 1,110 4%
- 895 3%
- 785 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 3,854 open roles. Sales followed at 3,105. The three largest families accounted for 33 per cent of the board. Product grew fastest, up 74 per cent to 1,250. AI / ML moved least, down 22 per cent.
- 3,854 ↑ +8%
- 3,105 ↑ +12%
- 2,840 ↑ 0%
- 2,190 ↓ -22%
- 1,549 ↑ +11%
- 1,508 ↑ +15%
- 1,276 ↑ +9%
- 1,250 ↑ +74%
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.
- 1,215 ↑ +18%
- 549 ↑ +16%
- 15,043 ↑ +6%
- 6,456 ↑ +9%
- 723 ↑ +5%
- 487 ↑ +7%
- 3,893 ↑ +22%
Top technologies this week
Mentions across open postings.
Explicit mentions of a technology across open postings, counted once per listing.
Python was named in 5,018 open postings, the most of any technology. AWS followed at 3,168, 1.6 times behind. AWS rose fastest, up 10 per cent to 3,168. All 8 leading technologies gained on the week.
- 5,018 ↑ +9%
- 3,168 ↑ +10%
- 2,439 ↑ +8%
- 2,213 ↑ +9%
- 2,075 ↑ +9%
- 2,034 ↑ +8%
- 1,884 ↑ +7%
- 1,847 ↑ +9%
Hiring flow
Roles opened against roles closed, by week.
Roles that first appeared on the board against roles removed from it.
3,087 roles opened and 3,712 closed, a net loss of 625. Openings were up 0 per cent on the previous week's 3,100. Net additions fell from -391 to -625. Closures cover filled, cancelled and expired postings alike.
Salaries
Annualised EUR estimate from the 3295 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.
Quant & Trading paid most, €287k to €287k across the middle half of 12 postings. The market median was €85,000 across 3,295 postings that stated a figure, down 2 per cent on the week. Sales paid least of the families shown, 205 per cent below Quant & Trading at the median.
- Quant & Trading €287k – €287k
- Engineering management €97k – €148k
- Solutions & Field €84k – €132k
- Software €74k – €133k
- Frontend €77k – €133k
- Security €78k – €135k
- Full stack €66k – €120k
- Sales €67k – €137k
Remote
5,341 of 31,987 open roles are remote (17%).
Counted remote only where the posting says so explicitly; anything ambiguous is treated as onsite.
17 per cent of open roles were remote, 5,341 of 31,987. Product was the most remote of the leading families, 39 per cent of 1,250 roles. Skilled trades was the least, 2 per cent.
Visa sponsorship
254 of the 904 roles that addressed it say they sponsor (28%). Most postings say nothing either way. ↓ -14pts vs last week
Read only across postings that took a position either way, not the whole board.
904 postings addressed visa sponsorship, 3 per cent of the board. 28 per cent of those offered it. AI / ML offered it most often, 62 per cent of 86 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 10 weeks on record, from 120 mentions to 2,075, up 1629 per cent. AWS grew slowest, up 535 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 Software was the commonest pairing, 1,096 postings asking for both. Distributed systems was the most concentrated, 36 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.
