Weekly Skills Pulse — March 29, 2026
This week's job market snapshot from 3,147 active listings. See what's trending across 6 tech categories.
Weekly Skills Pulse — March 29, 2026
The tech job market opens the week of March 29, 2026 with 3,147 active listings across 105 hiring companies, adding 310 new postings in the past seven days. Java is this week's biggest mover, surging to 17.4% demand in DevOps & Infrastructure — a 3.1 percentage point jump week-over-week — while Data & Analytics holds the title of most volatile category.
Key Movements This Week
- Stakeholder Mgmt: 30.3% demand (down 44.5pp from last week) — A sizable decline in Product & Design may point to stack consolidation or tooling shifts.
- Excel: 25.5% demand (down 25.8pp from last week) — This pullback in Product & Design suggests employers are reducing emphasis on this skill.
- AWS: 19.3% demand (down 25.2pp from last week) — A sizable decline in Product & Design may point to stack consolidation or tooling shifts.
- Stakeholder Mgmt: 19.7% demand (down 24.2pp from last week) — Demand cooled materially in Data & Analytics, likely due to changing implementation preferences.
- Excel: 9.8% demand (down 23.6pp from last week) — A sizable decline in Software Engineering may point to stack consolidation or tooling shifts.
- SQL: 23.8% demand (down 23.5pp from last week) — This pullback in Data & Analytics suggests employers are reducing emphasis on this skill.
- Python: 18.9% demand (down 23.5pp from last week) — A sizable decline in Data & Analytics may point to stack consolidation or tooling shifts.
- AWS: 11.8% demand (down 21.6pp from last week) — Demand cooled materially in Software Engineering, likely due to changing implementation preferences.
Category Spotlight: Data & Analytics
- SQL — 23.8% (↓ 23.5pp)
- Stakeholder Mgmt — 19.7% (↓ 24.2pp)
- Python — 18.9% (↓ 23.5pp)
- AWS — 16.1% (↓ 17.1pp)
- Scala — 11.2% (↓ 14.7pp)
- Excel — 10.7% (↓ 18.3pp)
- Data Pipeline — 9.0% (↓ 11.7pp)
- dbt — 7.4% (↓ 6.0pp)
- A/B Testing — 7.4% (↓ 12.1pp)
- Tableau — 7.4% (↓ 6.6pp)
Rising Signals
Skills with the strongest upward momentum across all categories:
- Java +3.1pp — now at 17.4% in DevOps & Infrastructure
- Data Pipeline +2.4pp — now at 6.0% in Security
- Ruby +2.3pp — now at 12.1% in DevOps & Infrastructure
- Spark +2.0pp — now at 8.6% in Security
- AWS Security +1.9pp — now at 18.9% in DevOps & Infrastructure
Declining
- Stakeholder Mgmt -44.5pp — down to 30.3% in Product & Design
- Excel -25.8pp — down to 25.5% in Product & Design
- AWS -25.2pp — down to 19.3% in Product & Design
What This Signals
Java, Data Pipeline and Ruby skills are gaining ground in DevOps, Infrastructure and Security roles this week, so candidates who can demonstrate hands-on experience in these areas should prioritise surfacing them in applications. With 872 active Full Stack Developer listings dominating a market of 3,147 total roles, full-stack candidates have the strongest volume of opportunities to target right now. Hiring managers should note the sharp drops in Stakeholder Management (-44.5pp) and Excel (-25.8pp) demand, signalling a clear shift away from soft and legacy tooling skills in active job descriptions.
By the Numbers
- Total active listings: 3,147
- New listings this week: 310
- Most-hired role: Full Stack Developer (872 listings)
- Top skill overall: AWS (65.6%)
Frequently Asked Questions
What tech skills are trending this week?
The fastest-rising skills this week are Java, Data Pipeline, Ruby. These showed the largest week-over-week demand increases across 3,147 active listings.
How many tech jobs were posted this week?
This week saw 310 new postings added, bringing the total active listings to 3,147 across 105 companies.
Which tech category has the most hiring activity?
Data & Analytics showed the most hiring activity this week, with the largest aggregate skill movement across all tracked categories.
Data sourced from 105 company career pages via Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby APIs. Updated daily. About our data & methodology.