Weekly Skills Pulse — October 27, 2026
This week's job market snapshot from 31,199 active listings. See what's trending across 6 tech categories.
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This week's job market snapshot from 31,199 active listings. See what's trending across 6 tech categories.
Quick Answer
Tech skills pulse for October 27, 2026: 31,199 active listings from 242 companies. Top mover: Machine Learning. Weekly demand shifts, risers and salary signals.
Search Snapshot
The week of October 27, 2026 opens with 31,199 active listings across 242 companies, with 9,188 new roles posted in the last seven days. LLMs and GenAI made the biggest move in Product & Design, jumping 1.6 percentage points week-over-week to claim 10.8% of demand, while Security held the title of most volatile category.
No major movements this week — the market is holding steady across categories.
Skills with the strongest upward momentum across all categories:
Security is the week's most volatile category, with AWS swinging +1.7 percentage points there even as it slips elsewhere — hiring managers in that space should expect candidate pipelines to shift fast, and job seekers with AWS security credentials should apply now while demand is spiking. Full Stack Developer dominates the market with 9,108 listings out of 31,199 total, making it the single highest-percentage bet for developers updating their portfolios. With 9,188 new listings added this week, overall hiring volume is healthy, but the mixed signals on LLMs and GenAI — rising 1.6pp in Product and Design yet falling in other categories — suggest those skills land better when positioned toward product and design roles than engineering ones.
Machine Learning leads skill demand this week, appearing in 34.0% of active listings. LLMs and GenAI saw the sharpest rise in Product & Design roles, climbing 1.6 percentage points, while AWS dropped 1.7 percentage points in Security — making Security the most volatile category in this week's job market.
9,188 new tech jobs were posted this week, contributing to a total of 31,199 active listings across the market. That weekly intake represents roughly 29% of all current openings, signalling steady hiring volume heading into the final stretch of October 2026.
Full Stack Developer is the top role by raw listing count, with 9,108 active positions open right now. Security saw the most turbulence in hiring activity this week, driven by a 1.7 percentage point swing in AWS demand within that category.
Data sourced from 242 company career pages via Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby APIs. Updated daily. About our data & methodology.
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