Weekly Skills Pulse — April 11, 2026
This week's job market snapshot from 10,224 active listings. See what's trending across 6 tech categories.
This week's job market snapshot from 10,224 active listings. See what's trending across 6 tech categories.
Quick Answer
Tech skills pulse for April 11, 2026: 10,224 active listings from 137 companies. Top mover: Kubernetes. Weekly demand shifts, risers and salary signals.
Search Snapshot
Machine Learning dominates hiring signals this week, with demand reaching 45.6% across AI & Machine Learning roles — up 6.1 percentage points week-over-week. For the week of April 11, 2026, 7,345 new listings entered the market from 137 companies, bringing total active postings to 10,224, with DevOps & Infrastructure emerging as the most volatile category.
Skills with the strongest upward momentum across all categories:
Machine Learning demand surged 6.1 percentage points this week, making it the clearest signal for job seekers to prioritise AI-related skills on applications and for hiring managers to expect increased competition for those candidates. DevOps & Infrastructure was the most volatile category, with Kubernetes dropping 31.7pp and Terraform falling 28.9pp — teams relying on those tools should reassess how prominently they feature in job descriptions, as the data suggests a short-term pullback in explicit demand. With 7,345 new listings entering a market of 10,224 active roles and Full Stack Developer leading at 3,616 postings, candidates with C# or Microservices exposure alongside front-to-back capabilities are well-positioned to move quickly.
The fastest-rising skills this week are Machine Learning, C#, Microservices. These showed the largest week-over-week demand increases across 10,224 active listings.
This week saw 7,345 new postings added, bringing the total active listings to 10,224 across 137 companies.
DevOps & Infrastructure showed the most hiring activity this week, with the largest aggregate skill movement across all tracked categories.
Data sourced from 137 company career pages via Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby APIs. Updated daily. About our data & methodology.
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