Week of 19 October 2026
31,805 open roles across 685 companies. 3,531 opened, 4,171 closed.
This week in brief
31,805 open roles
3,531 opened / 4,171 closed
Germany: 6,468 roles
21% of the total · the UK and France follow
Software: 3,953 roles
Python: 5,019 mentions
+1% on last week
Engineering management leads
Market-wide median €85,000
Job demand over time
Total open roles, week by week.
Open roles still live at each week's close, not new postings that week.
31,805 roles were open at the close of the week, down 1 per cent on the previous week's 32,196. Weekly growth was -391 roles, against an average of 3,356 over the preceding weeks. 11 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 6,468 open roles, 21 per cent of the total. The UK followed at 5,922, France at 3,472. The top three markets accounted for 51 per cent of all roles. Spain grew fastest, up 2 per cent to 1,897. Switzerland fell furthest, down 6 per cent to 853. Seven of the top ten lost ground.
- 6,468 21%
- 5,922 19%
- 3,472 11%
- 1,937 6%
- 1,897 6%
- 1,501 5%
- 1,465 5%
- 1,141 4%
- 853 3%
- 774 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 3,953 open roles. Sales followed at 3,331. The three largest families accounted for 35 per cent of the board.
- 3,953
- 3,331
- 2,840
- 1,922
- 1,629
- 1,519
- 1,307
- 1,282
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.
- 1,723 ↑ +39%
- 563 ↑ +1%
- 14,889 ↓ -2%
- 6,196
- 739 ↑ +2%
- 489 ↓ 0%
- 3,161
- 1,042
Top technologies this week
Explicit mentions across open postings, counted once per listing.
Python was named in 5,019 open postings, the most of any technology. AWS followed at 3,037, 1.7 times behind. GCP rose fastest, up 2 per cent to 1,868. Two of the 8 leading technologies gained on the week.
- 5,019 ↑ +1%
- 3,037 ↓ -4%
- 2,389 ↓ -2%
- 2,176 ↓ -2%
- 2,032 ↓ -2%
- 1,936 ↓ -3%
- 1,868 ↑ +2%
- 1,845 ↓ -2%
Hiring flow
Roles opened against roles closed, by week.
3,531 roles opened and 4,171 closed, a net loss of 640. Openings were up 14 per cent on the previous week's 3,088. Net additions fell from -318 to -640. Closures cover filled, cancelled and expired postings alike.
Salaries
Annualised EUR estimate from the 3189 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, €96k to €146k across the middle half of 93 postings. The market median was €85,000 across 3,189 postings that stated a figure, up 0 per cent on the week. Security paid least of the families shown, 26 per cent below Engineering management at the median.
- Engineering management €96k – €146k
- Solutions & Field €86k – €139k
- Full stack €60k – €132k
- Frontend €63k – €108k
- Sales €65k – €137k
- AI / ML €71k – €129k
- Product €78k – €121k
- Security €72k – €117k
Remote
5,281 of 31,805 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, 5,281 of 31,805. Product was the most remote of the leading families, 37 per cent of 1,307 roles. Skilled trades was the least, 2 per cent.
Visa and relocation support
264 of the 941 roles that addressed it say they offer it (28%). Most postings say nothing either way.
Read only across postings that took a position either way, not the whole board.
941 postings addressed visa or relocation support, 3 per cent of the board. 28 per cent of those offered it. AI / ML offered it most often, 58 per cent of 91 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 11 weeks on record, from 120 mentions to 2,032, up 1593 per cent. AWS grew slowest, up 509 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, 1,211 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.
All weekly reports
11 weeks · newest first
- 19 Oct – 26 Oct viewing 31,805 open roles +3,531 −4,171
- 12 Oct – 19 Oct 32,196 open roles +3,088 −3,406
- 5 Oct – 12 Oct 32,086 open roles +3,092 −3,435
- 28 Sept – 5 Oct 30,874 open roles +2,781 −3,826
- 21 Sept – 28 Sept 18,233 open roles +2,035 −2,296
- 14 Sept – 21 Sept 12,214 open roles +1,683 −2,124
- 7 Sept – 14 Sept 8,029 open roles +1,464 −1,506
- 31 Aug – 7 Sept 5,801 open roles +1,074 −1,067
- 24 Aug – 31 Aug 5,100 open roles +847 −981
- 17 Aug – 24 Aug 2,367 open roles +736 −795
- 10 Aug – 17 Aug 1,992 open roles +0 −182
