Tech Demand

What is worth learning · reported week 2026-W44 (last completed ISO week, SGT) · 0-2 yrs · Platform
Experience: all0-23-56+unstated
Role: allAI-MLBackendDataFrontendFullstackMobileOther-ITPlatformSRESecurity

1. Demand ranking

108 enriched SWE postings in 2026-W44. 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.

aws39python31terraform31azure30kubernetes30linux29google-cloud27shell27docker26sql22ansible11grafana11jenkins11git10prometheus10

2. Momentum (vs the previous 4 weeks)

Heating up

TechnologyShareChangePostings
shell25.0%+12.6pp27
aws36.1%+11.8pp39
kubernetes27.8%+11.8pp30
python28.7%+10.3pp31
terraform28.7%+10.3pp31
google-cloud25.0%+10.2pp27
docker24.1%+9.6pp26
azure27.8%+6.6pp30
linux26.9%+6.3pp29
jenkins10.2%+4.5pp11

Cooling down

Nothing fell this week.

Change is in percentage points of share, not relative percent: a technology going from 1 to 3 postings would otherwise read as +200% and top the board. Boards consider every technology above the bar, not only the 30 the table below shows.

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$4750, the median of 1443 postings advertising a monthly range — medians pin the unit so the figures are comparable. Separately, 100.0% of SWE postings state pay at all (1443 of 1443, 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
awscloud3936.1% +13.7% 100.0%
pythonlanguage3128.7% +20.0% 100.0%
terraformtool3128.7% +15.8% 100.0%
azurecloud3027.8% +13.7% 100.0%
kubernetestool3027.8% +15.8% 100.0%
linuxtool2926.9% +15.8% 100.0%
google-cloudcloud2725.0% +15.3% 100.0%
shelllanguage2725.0% +22.1% 100.0%
dockertool2624.1% +13.7% 100.0%
sqllanguage2220.4% +4.2% 100.0%
ansibletool1110.2% +22.1% 100.0%
grafanatool1110.2% +22.1% 100.0%
jenkinstool1110.2% +22.1% 100.0%
gittool109.3% +22.1% 100.0%
prometheustool109.3% +22.1% 100.0%
github-actionstool98.3% +22.1% 100.0%
gitlab-citool76.5% +22.1% 100.0%
javalanguage76.5% +5.3% 100.0%
rubylanguage54.6% +23.2% 100.0%
csharplanguage43.7% -5.3% 100.0%
datadogtool43.7% +22.1% 100.0%
golanguage43.7% +22.1% 100.0%
javascriptlanguage43.7% +10.5% 100.0%
mssqldatabase43.7% -5.3% 100.0%
hadooptool32.8% —(n=8) 100.0%
mysqldatabase32.8% +22.1% 100.0%
postgresqldatabase32.8% +22.1% 100.0%
generative-aiai21.9% —(n=18) 100.0%
swiftlanguage21.9% —(n=12) 100.0%
aliyuncloud10.9% —(n=17) 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 (2026-08-08 → 2026-11-05) across 1443 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
Information Technology29220.2%1.7%
Computer Engineering19913.8%1.0%
AWS19813.7%21.7%
Computer Science18612.9%1.6%
Cloud Infrastructure16411.4%8.5%
Kubernetes15911.0%34.0%
Docker15610.8%16.0%
Networking14910.3%12.1%
Linux1439.9%15.4%
Troubleshooting1319.1%5.3%
Able To Work Independently1188.2%0.0%
SQL1147.9%8.8%
Ansible1097.6%1.8%
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)1097.6%17.4%
Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills1077.4%2.8%
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.