Tech Demand

What is worth learning · reported week 2026-W37 (last completed ISO week, SGT) · 3-5 yrs · Data
Experience: all0-23-56+unstated
Role: allAI-MLBackendDataFrontendFullstackMobileOther-ITPlatformSRESecurity

1. Demand ranking

90 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.

sql64python62aws43azure33spark30machine-learning24google-cloud18generative-ai13hadoop12postgresql12kafka11docker10git9llm9kubernetes8

2. Momentum (vs the previous 4 weeks)

Heating up

TechnologyShareChangePostings
spark33.3%+14.9pp30
python68.9%+8.0pp62
sql71.1%+5.6pp64
azure36.7%+5.3pp33
hadoop13.3%+3.9pp12
generative-ai14.4%+3.7pp13
kafka12.2%+3.6pp11
google-cloud20.0%+3.4pp18
postgresql13.3%+1.7pp12
docker11.1%+1.4pp10

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$7750, the median of 784 postings advertising a monthly range — medians pin the unit so the figures are comparable. Separately, 100.0% of SWE postings state pay at all (784 of 784, 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
sqllanguage6471.1% +3.2% 0.0%
pythonlanguage6268.9% +3.2% 0.0%
awscloud4347.8% +3.2% 0.0%
azurecloud3336.7% +3.2% 0.0%
sparkframework3033.3% +3.2% 0.0%
machine-learningai2426.7% +12.9% 0.0%
google-cloudcloud1820.0% -3.2% 0.0%
generative-aiai1314.4% +16.1% 0.0%
hadooptool1213.3% -11.6% 0.0%
postgresqldatabase1213.3% -11.6% 0.0%
kafkatool1112.2% +6.5% 0.0%
dockertool1011.1% -3.2% 0.0%
gittool910.0% -3.2% 0.0%
llmai910.0% +9.7% 0.0%
kubernetestool88.9% -3.2% 0.0%
ragai88.9% +29.0% 0.0%
scalalanguage88.9% +6.5% 0.0%
nlpai77.8% +17.4% 0.0%
linuxtool66.7% -3.2% 0.0%
grafanatool55.6% -3.2% 0.0%
javalanguage55.6% +9.7% 0.0%
mssqldatabase55.6% +0.0% 0.0%
openaiai55.6% +25.8% 0.0%
shelllanguage55.6% +9.7% 0.0%
airflowtool44.4% +3.2% 0.0%
jenkinstool44.4% —(n=18) 0.0%
langchainai44.4% +29.0% 0.0%
mysqldatabase44.4% +3.2% 0.0%
prometheustool44.4% —(n=17) 0.0%
snowflakedatabase44.4% -3.2% 0.0%

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 784 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
Computer Science19424.7%1.5%
Python17822.7%16.3%
Data Pipeline17522.3%12.0%
Data Engineering16621.2%16.9%
Data Science15619.9%8.3%
SQL15419.6%18.2%
Data Governance12716.2%0.8%
AWS11815.1%20.3%
Machine Learning10413.3%4.8%
Design10012.8%2.0%
ETL9311.9%12.9%
Data Quality Assurance8711.1%1.1%
Data Infrastructure8611.0%17.4%
Data Analysis8010.2%16.2%
Data Modelling769.7%21.1%
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.