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What job ads in the United States and Canada ask for, role by role and skill by skill: 39 role reports and 150 skill pages from 52,847 job ads over the last 180 days, with a report each month on what moved. Updated November 2, 2026.
From 52,847 job ads in the United States and Canada, May 6, 2026 to November 2, 2026. Updated November 2, 2026. How we count. Free to reuse with credit: CC BY 4.0
- Software EngineerRole · 15,650 job ads
- Product ManagerRole · 6,628 job ads
- Engineering ManagerRole · 3,063 job ads
- Data ScientistRole · 2,711 job ads
- Security EngineerRole · 2,230 job ads
- Solutions ArchitectRole · 2,087 job ads
- Full-Stack EngineerRole · 2,035 job ads
- AI EngineerRole · 2,015 job ads
- Solutions EngineerRole · 1,840 job ads
- Data EngineerRole · 1,808 job ads
- Machine Learning EngineerRole · 1,728 job ads
- Platform EngineerRole · 1,594 job ads
- Technical Program ManagerRole · 1,414 job ads
- DevOps EngineerRole · 1,276 job ads
- Data AnalystRole · 1,224 job ads
- Research Scientist (ML)Role · 1,148 job ads
- Forward Deployed EngineerRole · 959 job ads
- Site Reliability EngineerRole · 896 job ads
- Embedded Software EngineerRole · 813 job ads
- Support EngineerRole · 750 job ads
- Technical Product ManagerRole · 743 job ads
- QA EngineerRole · 650 job ads
- Cloud EngineerRole · 487 job ads
- Backend EngineerRole · 446 job ads
- Applied ScientistRole · 384 job ads
- Frontend EngineerRole · 354 job ads
- Mobile EngineerRole · 295 job ads
- Analytics EngineerRole · 290 job ads
- Data ArchitectRole · 280 job ads
- Robotics EngineerRole · 274 job ads
- Head of DataRole · 267 job ads
- Business Intelligence AnalystRole · 234 job ads
- Product AnalystRole · 227 job ads
- MLOps EngineerRole · 207 job ads
- Data Science ManagerRole · 172 job ads
- Pricing ScientistRole · 151 job ads
- Quantitative ResearcherRole · 121 job ads
- Developer AdvocateRole · 120 job ads
- Computer Vision EngineerRole · 103 job ads
- PythonSkill · 42% of job ads
- AWSSkill · 29% of job ads
- Machine LearningSkill · 27% of job ads
- CI/CDSkill · 27% of job ads
- AgileSkill · 22% of job ads
- SQLSkill · 22% of job ads
- GitSkill · 21% of job ads
- Distributed SystemsSkill · 20% of job ads
- ObservabilitySkill · 20% of job ads
- AI AgentsSkill · 20% of job ads
- TestingSkill · 19% of job ads
- AzureSkill · 18% of job ads
- LLMsSkill · 18% of job ads
- KubernetesSkill · 18% of job ads
- REST APIsSkill · 18% of job ads
- Code ReviewSkill · 17% of job ads
- JavaSkill · 17% of job ads
- DockerSkill · 15% of job ads
- GCPSkill · 14% of job ads
- ETL/ELTSkill · 14% of job ads
- TerraformSkill · 13% of job ads
- Problem SolvingSkill · 13% of job ads
- C++Skill · 13% of job ads
- AI Coding ToolsSkill · 13% of job ads
- LinuxSkill · 12% of job ads
- NetworkingSkill · 12% of job ads
- MicroservicesSkill · 11% of job ads
- TypeScriptSkill · 10% of job ads
- Generative AISkill · 10% of job ads
- GoSkill · 10% of job ads
- ReactSkill · 10% of job ads
- JavaScriptSkill · 9% of job ads
- StatisticsSkill · 9% of job ads
- Object-Oriented DesignSkill · 9% of job ads
- Data QualitySkill · 9% of job ads
- Cloud SecuritySkill · 9% of job ads
- Data ModelingSkill · 8% of job ads
- MLOpsSkill · 8% of job ads
- Product StrategySkill · 7% of job ads
- Data GovernanceSkill · 7% of job ads
- Data AnalysisSkill · 7% of job ads
- RAGSkill · 7% of job ads
- PostgreSQLSkill · 7% of job ads
- Product ManagementSkill · 7% of job ads
- C#Skill · 6% of job ads
- Software EngineeringSkill · 6% of job ads
- Data VisualizationSkill · 6% of job ads
- CSkill · 6% of job ads
- Project ManagementSkill · 6% of job ads
- Incident ResponseSkill · 6% of job ads
- Apache KafkaSkill · 6% of job ads
- DatabricksSkill · 5% of job ads
- Data WarehousingSkill · 5% of job ads
- Application SecuritySkill · 5% of job ads
- BashSkill · 5% of job ads
- DevOpsSkill · 5% of job ads
- SnowflakeSkill · 5% of job ads
- Apache SparkSkill · 5% of job ads
- Prompt EngineeringSkill · 5% of job ads
- Data Structures & AlgorithmsSkill · 5% of job ads
- AutomationSkill · 5% of job ads
- LLM EvaluationSkill · 5% of job ads
- PyTorchSkill · 5% of job ads
- Node.jsSkill · 5% of job ads
- MonitoringSkill · 4% of job ads
- Performance OptimizationSkill · 4% of job ads
- Risk ManagementSkill · 4% of job ads
- Operating SystemsSkill · 4% of job ads
- Deep LearningSkill · 4% of job ads
- Embedded SystemsSkill · 4% of job ads
- AISkill · 4% of job ads
- SecuritySkill · 4% of job ads
- Software Development LifecycleSkill · 4% of job ads
- Power BISkill · 4% of job ads
- Reliability EngineeringSkill · 4% of job ads
- TableauSkill · 4% of job ads
- AnsibleSkill · 4% of job ads
- Oracle DatabaseSkill · 4% of job ads
- RustSkill · 4% of job ads
- System IntegrationSkill · 4% of job ads
- AWS S3Skill · 3% of job ads
- ExcelSkill · 3% of job ads
- Regulatory ComplianceSkill · 3% of job ads
- Spring BootSkill · 3% of job ads
- HTML/CSSSkill · 3% of job ads
- AngularSkill · 3% of job ads
- .NETSkill · 3% of job ads
- RSkill · 3% of job ads
- Cloud PlatformsSkill · 3% of job ads
- NLPSkill · 3% of job ads
- Full-Stack DevelopmentSkill · 3% of job ads
- Message QueuesSkill · 3% of job ads
- ElasticsearchSkill · 3% of job ads
- Software ArchitectureSkill · 3% of job ads
- LangChainSkill · 3% of job ads
- TensorFlowSkill · 3% of job ads
- Relational DatabasesSkill · 3% of job ads
- Apache AirflowSkill · 3% of job ads
- EmbeddingsSkill · 3% of job ads
- Vector DatabasesSkill · 3% of job ads
- Responsible AISkill · 3% of job ads
- LLM Fine-tuningSkill · 3% of job ads
- A/B TestingSkill · 3% of job ads
- Azure DevOpsSkill · 3% of job ads
- SQL ServerSkill · 3% of job ads
- Cloud-NativeSkill · 3% of job ads
- PowerShellSkill · 3% of job ads
- DevSecOpsSkill · 3% of job ads
- API IntegrationSkill · 3% of job ads
- Computer VisionSkill · 2% of job ads
- Cloud ComputingSkill · 2% of job ads
- Change ManagementSkill · 2% of job ads
- Microsoft OfficeSkill · 2% of job ads
- MySQLSkill · 2% of job ads
- Cloud InfrastructureSkill · 2% of job ads
- Artificial IntelligenceSkill · 2% of job ads
- NoSQLSkill · 2% of job ads
- dbtSkill · 2% of job ads
- BigQuerySkill · 2% of job ads
- Data-Driven Decision MakingSkill · 2% of job ads
- GraphQLSkill · 2% of job ads
- ConfluenceSkill · 2% of job ads
- System ArchitectureSkill · 2% of job ads
- System ScalingSkill · 2% of job ads
- Solution ArchitectureSkill · 2% of job ads
- Backend DevelopmentSkill · 2% of job ads
- CybersecuritySkill · 2% of job ads
- RedisSkill · 2% of job ads
- Feature EngineeringSkill · 2% of job ads
- WindowsSkill · 2% of job ads
- Data EngineeringSkill · 2% of job ads
- MongoDBSkill · 2% of job ads
- AWS LambdaSkill · 2% of job ads
- ComplianceSkill · 2% of job ads
- ScalaSkill · 2% of job ads
- Product Lifecycle ManagementSkill · 2% of job ads
- Time Series ForecastingSkill · 2% of job ads
- API DevelopmentSkill · 2% of job ads
- Reinforcement LearningSkill · 2% of job ads
- Android DevelopmentSkill · 2% of job ads
- AlgorithmsSkill · 2% of job ads
- LLM APIsSkill · 2% of job ads
- ServerlessSkill · 2% of job ads
- AI/MLSkill · 2% of job ads
- Data IntegrationSkill · 2% of job ads
- RubySkill · 2% of job ads
- Product DevelopmentSkill · 2% of job ads
- KotlinSkill · 2% of job ads
- Operations ResearchSkill · 2% of job ads
- RoboticsSkill · 2% of job ads
Roles
A report for each role: the skills its job ads ask for, advertised pay and where it's highest, the latest month at a glance and where the job ads are. A role gets one once it has at least 100 job ads in the last 180 days. Job ads in the last 180 days, to November 2, 2026.
AI and machine learning
8 roles · 6,818 job ads
Data
9 roles · 7,046 job ads
Software
8 roles · 20,363 job ads
Infrastructure and cloud
7 roles · 8,930 job ads
Security
1 role · 2,230 job ads
- Security Engineer2,230
Product and management
6 roles · 12,287 job ads
Skills
A page for each of the skills asked for most, by area: which roles ask for it, how often it's required, its latest month and the skills asked for with it. Job ads in the last 180 days, to November 2, 2026.
DevOps & MLOps
13 skills, with their share of job ads
- CI/CD27%
- Git21%
- Observability20%
- Kubernetes18%
- Docker15%
Programming Languages
17 skills, with their share of job ads
- Python42%
- SQL22%
- Java17%
- C++13%
- TypeScript10%
Practices & Methods
12 skills, with their share of job ads
Cloud Platforms
13 skills, with their share of job ads
- AWS29%
- Azure18%
- GCP14%
- AWS S33%
- Cloud Platforms3%
GenAI & LLMs
13 skills, with their share of job ads
- AI Agents20%
- LLMs18%
- Generative AI10%
- RAG7%
- Prompt Engineering5%
Data Engineering
14 skills, with their share of job ads
Backend & APIs
12 skills, with their share of job ads
Machine Learning & AI
11 skills, with their share of job ads
Security
6 skills, with their share of job ads
Databases
10 skills, with their share of job ads
Analytics & BI
6 skills, with their share of job ads
Product Management
5 skills, with their share of job ads
Academic Foundations
4 skills, with their share of job ads
Web & Frontend
4 skills, with their share of job ads
Project & Program Management
2 skills, with their share of job ads
Systems & Networking
2 skills, with their share of job ads
Regulatory & Compliance
2 skills, with their share of job ads
Risk & Audit
1 skill, with their share of job ads
Hardware & Embedded
1 skill, with their share of job ads
Mobile
1 skill, with their share of job ads
Robotics & Autonomy
1 skill, with their share of job ads
- Robotics2%
What moved, and how we count
Moving this year
The skills whose share of a role's job ads moved fastest, comparing like with like. Only moves clear of the month-to-month noise.
- Leadership in AI Engineer job ads+2.5 points a month
- Agile in Software Engineer job ads+2.5 points a month
- AI Agents in AI Engineer job ads+2.4 points a month
- Azure in DevOps Engineer job ads+2.4 points a month
- Agile in Product Manager job ads+2.3 points a month
- Apache Kafka in Data Engineer job ads−2.2 points a month
December 2025 to October 2026, United States and remote job ads
Monthly reports and the method
One page a month: the skills asked for most, the ones moving fastest, and each role's top skills.
The November 2026 report and every report
Every job ad, with reposts merged, is read for the skills it asks for; synonyms count as one. Shares are of the job ads for that role in the last 180 days. Never anything about the people who use Mettlespark.
Updated November 2, 2026