Tech Skills Demand This Week — July 04, 2026

Tech Skills Demand This Week — July 04, 2026 | Datamata Studios

Data & Analytics hiring dominated the week of July 4, 2026, with 8,471 new listings added across 243 companies for a total of 14,481 active roles. dbt saw the sharpest movement in the Data & Analytics category, with demand shifting 1.6 percentage points week-over-week to land at 2.0%, while Software Engineering posted the widest swings across all tracked job categories.

Key Movements This Week

Stakeholder Mgmt: 27.8% demand (down 12.0pp from last week) — A sizable decline in Product & Design may point to stack consolidation or tooling shifts.
LLMs / GenAI: 23.4% demand (down 8.6pp from last week) — Demand cooled materially in AI & Machine Learning, likely due to changing implementation preferences.
Python: 7.5% demand (down 5.7pp from last week) — A sizable decline in Security may point to stack consolidation or tooling shifts.
AWS: 11.6% demand (down 5.4pp from last week) — A sizable decline in Security may point to stack consolidation or tooling shifts.
Python: 13.5% demand (down 5.0pp from last week) — This pullback in AI & Machine Learning suggests employers are reducing emphasis on this skill.
Machine Learning: 31.8% demand (down 4.7pp from last week) — This skill slipped in AI & Machine Learning, though the move is not yet a structural break.
PyTorch: 6.5% demand (down 4.1pp from last week) — Hiring signals in AI & Machine Learning weakened this week for this skill.
A/B Testing: 9.1% demand (down 4.0pp from last week) — A moderate dip in Product & Design indicates softening demand.

Rising Signals

Skills with the strongest upward momentum across all categories:

dbt +-1.6 percentage points — now at 2.0% in Data & Analytics
User Research +-1.6 percentage points — now at 5.7% in Product & Design
AWS +-1.6 percentage points — now at 17.8% in DevOps & Infrastructure
Azure +-1.6 percentage points — now at 4.3% in AI & Machine Learning
SQL +-1.6 percentage points — now at 3.3% in AI & Machine Learning

Declining

Stakeholder Mgmt -12.0 percentage points — down to 27.8% in Product & Design
LLMs / GenAI -8.6 percentage points — down to 23.4% in AI & Machine Learning
Python -5.7 percentage points — down to 7.5% in Security

What This Signals

With 8,471 new listings entering the market this week out of 14,481 active roles, hiring volume is high — Full Stack Developer alone accounts for 4,684 postings, making it the single most in-demand role right now. Job seekers should prioritize dbt, AWS and User Research, each up 1.6 percentage points, while deprioritizing Stakeholder Management (-12.0 percentage points) and LLMs/GenAI (-8.6 percentage points) as headline skills on applications. Hiring managers in Software Engineering — this week's most volatile category — should move quickly on open requisitions, as shifting demand signals that candidate availability and role requirements are both in flux.

By the Numbers

Total active listings: 14,481
New listings this week: 8,471
Most-hired role: Full Stack Developer (4684 listings)
Top skill overall: Machine Learning (31.8%)

Frequently Asked Questions

What tech skills are trending this week?

The fastest-rising skills this week are dbt, User Research, AWS. These showed the largest week-over-week demand increases across 14,481 active listings.

How many tech jobs were posted this week?

This week saw 8,471 new postings added, bringing the total active listings to 14,481 across 243 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.

Data sourced from 243 company career pages via Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby APIs. Updated daily. About our data & methodology.

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