Software Engineer Skills Employers Ask For in 2026

Created by

Mariam Ahmed

Actor

Skills in Demand: What Employers Are Hiring For Now

A ready-made run over every live software engineering posting on seven public job boards. Each row is a skill: how many ads ask for it, which employers, how senior those roles are, and what it is paired with. In the run behind this page React led at 43%, with AWS at 42% and Kubernetes and Observability tied at 37% and named as each other's top co-skill.

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Skill

Input

Roles to analyse:software engineer

Job boards:WeWorkRemotely+6

Extra skills to track:Webflow+2

Ignore skills with fewer postings than:3

Maximum postings per role:1000

Also return every posting as a row:false

Output fields

Skill

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