Weekly Skills Pulse — April 20, 2026
This week's job market snapshot from 20,065 active listings. See what's trending across 6 tech categories.
This week's job market snapshot from 20,065 active listings. See what's trending across 6 tech categories.
Quick Answer
Tech skills pulse for April 20, 2026: 20,065 active listings from 121 companies. Top mover: Stakeholder Mgmt. Weekly demand shifts, risers and salary signals.
Search Snapshot
Software Engineering leads hiring activity for the week of April 20, 2026, with 8,991 new listings added across 20,065 active roles from 121 companies. Agile / Scrum is the biggest mover in the market, with demand climbing 2.6 percentage points week-over-week to reach 7.5% within Software Engineering — the most volatile category tracked this week.
Skills with the strongest upward momentum across all categories:
Agile/Scrum and CI/CD are the skills to prioritise right now — Agile/Scrum gained 2.6 percentage points in Software Engineering and 2.2pp in AI & Machine Learning this week, while CI/CD rose 2.3pp in DevOps & Infrastructure, signalling that hiring managers across multiple disciplines are actively filtering for delivery-focused candidates. Job seekers should audit their CVs for these terms immediately, as Software Engineering is the most volatile category in a market showing 8,991 new listings from a total of 20,065 active roles. Hiring managers can act on the other side of the data: Stakeholder Management dropped 10.4pp and Excel fell 6.6pp, suggesting those requirements are being quietly deprioritised — trimming them from job descriptions may widen the candidate pool for the 6,309 Full Stack Developer roles currently competing for attention
The fastest-rising skills this week are Agile / Scrum, CI/CD, Agile / Scrum. These showed the largest week-over-week demand increases across 20,065 active listings.
This week saw 8,991 new postings added, bringing the total active listings to 20,065 across 121 companies.
Software Engineering showed the most hiring activity this week, with the largest aggregate skill movement across all tracked categories.
Data sourced from 121 company career pages via Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby APIs. Updated daily. About our data & methodology.
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