Weekly Skills Pulse — April 15, 2026

Software Engineering dominated hiring activity this week, emerging as the most volatile category in a market that added 9,295 new listings from 124 companies — bringing total active postings to 14,508. The standout demand signal came from AI & Machine Learning roles, where Agile / Scrum requirements surged to 8.5% demand, up 2.9 percentage points week-over-week.

Key Movements This Week

• Stakeholder Mgmt: 45.3% demand (down 19.0pp from last week) — Demand cooled materially in Product & Design, likely due to changing implementation preferences.
• AWS: 24.8% demand (down 16.8pp from last week) — This pullback in Security suggests employers are reducing emphasis on this skill.
• Scala: 25.1% demand (down 14.1pp from last week) — A sizable decline in Software Engineering may point to stack consolidation or tooling shifts.
• Stakeholder Mgmt: 14.2% demand (down 14.0pp from last week) — A sizable decline in Security may point to stack consolidation or tooling shifts.
• Stakeholder Mgmt: 18.2% demand (down 13.6pp from last week) — Demand cooled materially in Data & Analytics, likely due to changing implementation preferences.
• Excel: 17.2% demand (down 13.4pp from last week) — Demand cooled materially in Software Engineering, likely due to changing implementation preferences.
• Python: 15.1% demand (down 13.4pp from last week) — This pullback in Security suggests employers are reducing emphasis on this skill.
• AWS: 22.8% demand (down 13.1pp from last week) — This pullback in Software Engineering suggests employers are reducing emphasis on this skill.

Category Spotlight: Software Engineering

1. Scala — 25.1% (↓ 14.1pp)
2. AWS — 22.8% (↓ 13.1pp)
3. Stakeholder Mgmt — 19.9% (↓ 9.8pp)
4. Excel — 17.2% (↓ 13.4pp)
5. Python — 15.0% (↓ 8.7pp)
6. React — 14.7% (↓ 5.6pp)
7. Node.js — 13.5% (↓ 9.5pp)
8. Java — 13.5% (↓ 7.7pp)
9. SQL — 13.2% (↓ 7.0pp)
10. TypeScript — 12.5% (↓ 4.8pp)

Rising Signals

Skills with the strongest upward momentum across all categories:

• Agile / Scrum +2.9 percentage points — now at 8.5% in AI & Machine Learning
• Agile / Scrum +1.7 percentage points — now at 7.8% in Software Engineering
• Machine Learning +1.6 percentage points — now at 47.6% in AI & Machine Learning
• Terraform +-1.6 percentage points — now at 3.1% in Software Engineering
• Kafka +-1.6 percentage points — now at 2.6% in Software Engineering

Declining

• Stakeholder Mgmt -19.0 percentage points — down to 45.3% in Product & Design
• AWS -16.8 percentage points — down to 24.8% in Security
• Scala -14.1 percentage points — down to 25.1% in Software Engineering

What This Signals

Agile and Scrum skills are gaining ground fast — up 2.9 percentage points in AI & Machine Learning roles and 1.7 points in Software Engineering — so job seekers without visible project management credentials should prioritise adding them to applications now. AWS demand dropped 16.8 points and Stakeholder Management fell 19.0 points, signalling that hiring managers are deprioritising those signals in favour of delivery-focused and ML-adjacent skills. With 9,295 new listings entering the market this week out of 14,508 total — and Full Stack Developer leading at 4,814 postings — candidates who combine hands-on engineering with Agile fluency are best positioned to move quickly.

By the Numbers

• Total active listings: 14,508
• New listings this week: 9,295
• Most-hired role: Full Stack Developer (4814 listings)
• Top skill overall: Machine Learning (47.6%)

Frequently Asked Questions

What tech skills are trending this week?

The fastest-rising skills this week are Agile / Scrum, Agile / Scrum, Machine Learning. These showed the largest week-over-week demand increases across 14,508 active listings.

How many tech jobs were posted this week?

This week saw 9,295 new postings added, bringing the total active listings to 14,508 across 124 companies.

Which tech category has the most hiring activity?

Software Engineering showed the most hiring activity this week, with the largest aggregate skill movement across all tracked categories.

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Data sourced from 124 company career pages via Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby APIs. Updated daily. About our data & methodology.