Tech Demand

What is worth learning · reported week 2026-W37 (last completed ISO week, SGT) · 0-2 yrs · Mobile
Experience: all0-23-56+unstated
Role: allAI-MLBackendDataFrontendFullstackMobileOther-ITPlatformSRESecurity

1. Demand ranking

9 enriched SWE postings in 2026-W37. Share = postings mentioning the technology ÷ that number — postings still awaiting enrichment are excluded from the denominator, so a processing backlog cannot depress every share at once. The chart shows the top 15; the table in section 3 lists the top 30.

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2. Momentum (vs the previous 4 weeks)

No technology cleared the momentum bar this week (10+ postings under this lens): with counts that thin, a share delta would read noise as trend, so the boards stay empty rather than calling the market flat.

3. Salary premium and entry-friendliness

Premium compares the median advertised monthly salary of postings mentioning a technology against the overall median, over the trailing 90 days. Baseline: S$3850, the median of 64 postings advertising a monthly range — medians pin the unit so the figures are comparable. Separately, 100.0% of SWE postings state pay at all (64 of 64, in any unit); the rest hide it, and no figure here describes them. Entry-friendly is computed over the same 90-day window. Premium mixes seniority in (senior roles name more infrastructure); pick an experience band above to compare within one. Entry-friendly = the share of postings mentioning the technology that ask for at most 2 years' experience, or are Intern/Junior roles with no stated requirement. The table lists the top 30 technologies by postings.

TechnologyKindPostingsShareSalary premiumEntry-friendly
javalanguage777.8% -11.7% 100.0%
kotlinlanguage444.4% -11.7% 100.0%
swiftlanguage444.4% -11.7% 100.0%
cpplanguage333.3% —(n=10) 100.0%
pythonlanguage333.3% —(n=7) 100.0%
gittool222.2% —(n=4) 100.0%
golanguage222.2% —(n=4) 100.0%
mssqldatabase222.2% —(n=19) 100.0%
springframework222.2% —(n=19) 100.0%
sqllanguage222.2% —(n=19) 100.0%
sqlitedatabase222.2% -11.7% 100.0%
javascriptlanguage111.1% —(n=11) 100.0%
llmai111.1% —(n=3) 100.0%
machine-learningai111.1% —(n=2) 100.0%

4. What else they ask for

These are MyCareersFuture's own skill tags — the competencies the employer filled in on the form, over the trailing 90 days (2026-06-23 → 2026-09-20) across 64 postings. They are not the technology ranking above: languages and frameworks appear only in the free-text description, which is why this system reads it separately. "Must-have" is the share of postings listing the tag that marked it essential rather than desirable — a tag that is everywhere but rarely essential is table stakes, one that is usually essential is a filter someone is applying.

SkillPostingsShareMarked must-have
iOS3351.6%3.0%
Java3148.4%0.0%
MySQL2640.6%0.0%
Troubleshooting2640.6%0.0%
Debugging2539.1%0.0%
iOS Development2437.5%0.0%
Application Development2335.9%4.3%
Able To Work Independently2132.8%0.0%
Android SDK2031.2%0.0%
SQL2031.2%0.0%
C#1929.7%0.0%
HTML51929.7%0.0%
Vb61929.7%0.0%
Web Services1929.7%0.0%
Computer Science1523.4%0.0%
Numbers computed by SQL from public MyCareersFuture data; data is refreshed daily, so it lags the live market by up to 24h. Methodology: docs/03-data-model.md · data freshness · Compliance: aggregate statistics only, no personal data.