Market data
The skills employers ask for.
The 149 skills named most often in 28,652 tech job postings in the United States and Canada over the last 180 days, by area. The most named: Python (44%), AWS (31%), Machine Learning (30%), CI/CD (27%), Distributed Systems (24%).
From 28,652 postings in the United States and Canada, April 23, 2026 to October 20, 2026. Updated October 20, 2026. How we count
DevOps & MLOps
CI/CD
27% of postings · 7,646 postings
Observability
22% of postings · 6,215 postings
Git
20% of postings · 5,661 postings
Kubernetes
19% of postings · 5,537 postings
Docker
15% of postings · 4,365 postings
Terraform
14% of postings · 3,995 postings
AI Coding Tools
13% of postings · 3,745 postings
Linux
12% of postings · 3,327 postings
MLOps
8% of postings · 2,417 postings
DevOps
5% of postings · 1,572 postings
Monitoring
4% of postings · 1,272 postings
Ansible
4% of postings · 1,008 postings
DevSecOps
2% of postings · 618 postings
Source Control Management
2% of postings · 580 postings
Programming Languages
Python
44% of postings · 12,463 postings
SQL
21% of postings · 6,060 postings
Java
19% of postings · 5,329 postings
C++
14% of postings · 4,076 postings
Go
12% of postings · 3,391 postings
TypeScript
10% of postings · 2,996 postings
JavaScript
9% of postings · 2,638 postings
C#
7% of postings · 1,943 postings
C
6% of postings · 1,682 postings
Bash
5% of postings · 1,450 postings
Rust
4% of postings · 1,163 postings
R
3% of postings · 862 postings
Scala
3% of postings · 793 postings
PowerShell
2% of postings · 712 postings
Algorithms
2% of postings · 664 postings
Ruby
2% of postings · 646 postings
Kotlin
2% of postings · 643 postings
Practices & Methods
Agile
20% of postings · 5,763 postings
Code Review
19% of postings · 5,489 postings
Testing
19% of postings · 5,351 postings
Problem Solving
11% of postings · 3,253 postings
Object-Oriented Design
11% of postings · 3,034 postings
Software Engineering
7% of postings · 1,877 postings
Automation
5% of postings · 1,384 postings
Reliability Engineering
5% of postings · 1,336 postings
Software Development Lifecycle
4% of postings · 1,253 postings
Software Architecture
4% of postings · 1,011 postings
System Architecture
2% of postings · 710 postings
Solution Architecture
2% of postings · 675 postings
GenAI & LLMs
AI Agents
22% of postings · 6,282 postings
LLMs
20% of postings · 5,615 postings
Generative AI
11% of postings · 3,270 postings
RAG
7% of postings · 2,064 postings
Prompt Engineering
5% of postings · 1,539 postings
LLM Evaluation
5% of postings · 1,423 postings
AI
4% of postings · 1,251 postings
LangChain
3% of postings · 979 postings
LLM Fine-tuning
3% of postings · 911 postings
Embeddings
3% of postings · 891 postings
Responsible AI
3% of postings · 878 postings
Artificial Intelligence
2% of postings · 675 postings
LLM APIs
2% of postings · 575 postings
Cloud Platforms
AWS
31% of postings · 9,006 postings
Azure
18% of postings · 5,223 postings
GCP
16% of postings · 4,575 postings
AWS S3
4% of postings · 1,055 postings
Cloud Platforms
3% of postings · 924 postings
Cloud-Native
3% of postings · 815 postings
Cloud Computing
3% of postings · 798 postings
Cloud Infrastructure
3% of postings · 753 postings
Azure DevOps
2% of postings · 713 postings
AWS Lambda
2% of postings · 663 postings
Serverless
2% of postings · 618 postings
Windows
2% of postings · 589 postings
Backend & APIs
Distributed Systems
24% of postings · 6,884 postings
REST APIs
18% of postings · 5,065 postings
Microservices
11% of postings · 3,285 postings
Node.js
5% of postings · 1,341 postings
Message Queues
3% of postings · 911 postings
System Scaling
3% of postings · 885 postings
Spring Boot
3% of postings · 879 postings
.NET
3% of postings · 875 postings
Backend Development
3% of postings · 765 postings
GraphQL
3% of postings · 733 postings
API Integration
2% of postings · 691 postings
API Development
2% of postings · 603 postings
Data Engineering
ETL/ELT
14% of postings · 4,005 postings
Data Quality
9% of postings · 2,440 postings
Data Modeling
8% of postings · 2,278 postings
Data Governance
7% of postings · 1,944 postings
Apache Kafka
6% of postings · 1,791 postings
Apache Spark
6% of postings · 1,651 postings
Data Warehousing
6% of postings · 1,624 postings
Databricks
6% of postings · 1,592 postings
Snowflake
5% of postings · 1,566 postings
Apache Airflow
3% of postings · 927 postings
BigQuery
2% of postings · 717 postings
dbt
2% of postings · 682 postings
Data Engineering
2% of postings · 652 postings
Machine Learning & AI
Machine Learning
30% of postings · 8,543 postings
A/B Testing
10% of postings · 2,815 postings
PyTorch
5% of postings · 1,509 postings
Deep Learning
5% of postings · 1,386 postings
TensorFlow
4% of postings · 1,015 postings
NLP
4% of postings · 1,004 postings
Feature Engineering
3% of postings · 778 postings
Computer Vision
3% of postings · 739 postings
Reinforcement Learning
2% of postings · 686 postings
Time Series Forecasting
2% of postings · 680 postings
AI/ML
2% of postings · 631 postings
scikit-learn
2% of postings · 617 postings
Model Optimization
2% of postings · 569 postings
Security
Databases
PostgreSQL
7% of postings · 1,975 postings
Oracle Database
3% of postings · 939 postings
Elasticsearch
3% of postings · 935 postings
Vector Databases
3% of postings · 901 postings
Relational Databases
3% of postings · 792 postings
MySQL
3% of postings · 730 postings
NoSQL
3% of postings · 722 postings
SQL Server
2% of postings · 716 postings
Redis
2% of postings · 712 postings
MongoDB
2% of postings · 675 postings