Weekly Skills Pulse — May 31, 2026
This week's job market snapshot from 10,708 active listings. See what's trending across 6 tech categories.
This week's job market snapshot from 10,708 active listings. See what's trending across 6 tech categories.
Quick Answer
Tech skills pulse for May 31, 2026: 10,708 active listings from 170 companies. Top mover: Terraform. Weekly demand shifts, risers and salary signals.
Search Snapshot
DevOps & Infrastructure is this week's most active hiring category, with Scala emerging as the biggest mover at 18.4% demand — a 2.6 percentage point jump week-over-week. Across the broader job market for the week of May 31, 2026, 3,734 new listings were added, bringing total active roles to 10,708 across 170 companies.
Skills with the strongest upward momentum across all categories:
Scala and LLMs/GenAI are this week's standout skills — Scala climbed 2.6 percentage points in DevOps & Infrastructure and LLMs/GenAI rose 2.6 points in AI & Machine Learning, making both worth prioritising on a CV or in a hiring brief right now. Job seekers with Terraform or Azure certifications should expect softer demand after those skills dropped 4.8pp and 4.0pp respectively, while hiring managers leaning on those tools may face less competition for that talent. With 3,734 new listings entering a market of 10,708 active roles this week — and Full Stack Developer dominating at 3,448 listings — candidates who can pair full-stack experience with Scala or GenAI skills are best positioned to move fast.
The fastest-rising skills this week are Scala, LLMs / GenAI, Scala. These showed the largest week-over-week demand increases across 10,708 active listings.
This week saw 3,734 new postings added, bringing the total active listings to 10,708 across 170 companies.
DevOps & Infrastructure showed the most hiring activity this week, with the largest aggregate skill movement across all tracked categories.
Data sourced from 170 company career pages via Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby APIs. Updated daily. About our data & methodology.
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