Week of 26 October 2026
33,022 open roles across 735 companies. 2,606 opened, 3,485 closed.
This week in brief
33,022 open roles
2,606 opened / 3,485 closed
Germany: 6,883 roles
21% of the total · the UK and France follow
Sales: 3,649 roles
+10% on last week
Python: 5,258 mentions
+5% 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.
33,022 roles were open at the close of the week, up 4 per cent on the previous week's 31,805. Weekly growth was 1,217 roles, against an average of 2,981 over the preceding weeks. 12 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 6,883 open roles, 21 per cent of the total. The UK followed at 6,137, France at 3,728. The top three markets accounted for 52 per cent of all roles. Sweden grew fastest, up 8 per cent to 835. Ireland fell furthest, down 2 per cent to 1,435. Two of the top ten lost ground.
- 6,883 21%
- 6,137 19%
- 3,728 12%
- 2,035 6%
- 1,906 6%
- 1,529 5%
- 1,435 4%
- 1,156 4%
- 865 3%
- 835 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 3,649 open roles. Software followed at 3,513. The three largest families accounted for 33 per cent of the board. Sales grew fastest, up 10 per cent to 3,649. Software moved least, down 11 per cent.
- 3,649 ↑ +10%
- 3,513 ↓ -11%
- 2,861 ↑ +1%
- 2,089 ↑ +9%
- 1,735 ↑ +7%
- 1,547 ↑ +2%
- 1,351 ↑ +5%
- 1,311 ↑ 0%
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.
- 1,938 ↑ +12%
- 642 ↑ +14%
- 15,231 ↑ +2%
- 6,501 ↑ +5%
- 764 ↑ +3%
- 478 ↓ -2%
- 3,271 ↑ +3%
- 1,077 ↑ +3%
Top technologies this week
Explicit mentions across open postings, counted once per listing.
Python was named in 5,258 open postings, the most of any technology. AWS followed at 3,195, 1.6 times behind. LLM / GenAI rose fastest, up 8 per cent to 2,577. All 8 leading technologies gained on the week.
- 5,258 ↑ +5%
- 3,195 ↑ +5%
- 2,577 ↑ +8%
- 2,331 ↑ +7%
- 2,203 ↑ +8%
- 2,001 ↑ +3%
- 1,945 ↑ +4%
- 1,913 ↑ +4%
Hiring flow
Roles opened against roles closed, by week.
2,606 roles opened and 3,485 closed, a net loss of 879. Openings were down 26 per cent on the previous week's 3,531. Net additions fell from -640 to -879. Closures cover filled, cancelled and expired postings alike.
Salaries
Annualised EUR estimate from the 3142 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 €140k across the middle half of 95 postings. The market median was €85,000 across 3,142 postings that stated a figure. Security paid least of the families shown, 28 per cent below Engineering management at the median.
- Engineering management €96k – €140k
- Solutions & Field €84k – €143k
- Frontend €77k – €109k
- AI / ML €71k – €135k
- Sales €67k – €140k
- Product €76k – €119k
- Software €67k – €125k
- Security €74k – €121k
Remote
5,376 of 33,022 open roles are remote (16%).
Counted remote only where the posting says so explicitly; anything ambiguous is treated as onsite.
16 per cent of open roles were remote, 5,376 of 33,022. Product was the most remote of the leading families, 37 per cent of 1,311 roles. Skilled trades was the least, 2 per cent.
Visa and relocation support
245 of the 939 roles that addressed it say they offer it (26%). Most postings say nothing either way. ↓ -2pts vs last week
Read only across postings that took a position either way, not the whole board.
939 postings addressed visa or relocation support, 3 per cent of the board. 26 per cent of those offered it. AI / ML offered it most often, 53 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 12 weeks on record, from 120 mentions to 2,203, up 1736 per cent. AWS grew slowest, up 540 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, 1,157 postings asking for both. Distributed systems was the most concentrated, 34 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
12 weeks · newest first
- 26 Oct – 2 Nov viewing 33,022 open roles +2,606 −3,485
- 19 Oct – 26 Oct 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
