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Software Engineer Skills Employers Ask For in 2026

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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Skills in Demand: What Employers Are Hiring For Now
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Skill
Category
Role
Postings
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Number
Boolean
List
Object

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
Category
Role
Postings
Share of postings %
Senior or above %
Publish pay %
Top employers
Asked for alongside
Boards
Postings analysed

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