Tech Demand

What is worth learning · reported week 2026-W44 (last completed ISO week, SGT) · 3-5 yrs · Security
Experience: all0-23-56+unstated
Role: allAI-MLBackendDataFrontendFullstackMobileOther-ITPlatformSRESecurity

1. Demand ranking

81 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.

aws21azure21python13linux11google-cloud8java4shell4ansible2kubernetes2llm2cloudflare1javascript1kibana1machine-learning1rag1

2. Momentum (vs the previous 4 weeks)

Heating up

TechnologyShareChangePostings
azure25.9%+7.8pp21
aws25.9%+3.1pp21

Cooling down

TechnologyShareChangePostings
linux13.6%-8.1pp11
python16.0%-5.3pp13

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$7250, the median of 787 postings advertising a monthly range — medians pin the unit so the figures are comparable. Separately, 100.0% of SWE postings state pay at all (787 of 787, 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
awscloud2125.9% +10.3% 0.0%
azurecloud2125.9% +3.4% 0.0%
pythonlanguage1316.0% +13.8% 0.0%
linuxtool1113.6% +13.8% 0.0%
google-cloudcloud89.9% +10.3% 0.0%
javalanguage44.9% -3.4% 0.0%
shelllanguage44.9% +20.7% 0.0%
ansibletool22.5% +3.4% 0.0%
kubernetestool22.5% +10.3% 0.0%
llmai22.5% +37.9% 0.0%
cloudflarecloud11.2% —(n=19) 0.0%
javascriptlanguage11.2% —(n=17) 0.0%
kibanatool11.2% —(n=10) 0.0%
machine-learningai11.2% —(n=16) 0.0%
ragai11.2% —(n=8) 0.0%
sqllanguage11.2% +24.1% 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 (2026-08-08 → 2026-11-05) across 787 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
Cybersecurity22428.5%24.6%
Computer Science20025.4%1.0%
CISSP17622.4%7.4%
Cyber Security17422.1%14.4%
Security Operations14918.9%18.1%
Network Security13316.9%15.8%
Information Technology12215.5%8.2%
Cyberark11414.5%44.7%
Certifications10213.0%1.0%
Vulnerability Assessment9812.5%10.2%
Cybersecurity Framework Application9712.3%7.2%
SIEM9612.2%61.5%
IAM9411.9%6.4%
Networking9211.7%2.2%
Threat and Vulnerability Management9211.7%20.7%
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.