Tech Demand

What is worth learning · reported week 2026-W44 (last completed ISO week, SGT) · 6+ yrs · SRE
Experience: all0-23-56+unstated
Role: allAI-MLBackendDataFrontendFullstackMobileOther-ITPlatformSRESecurity

1. Demand ranking

12 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.

python8ansible6terraform5aws4azure4git3kubernetes3shell3sql3datadog2go2grafana2java2linux2machine-learning2

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$11000, the median of 57 postings advertising a monthly range — medians pin the unit so the figures are comparable. Separately, 100.0% of SWE postings state pay at all (57 of 57, 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
pythonlanguage866.7% -9.1% 0.0%
ansibletool650.0% —(n=17) 0.0%
terraformtool541.7% -11.4% 0.0%
awscloud433.3% +9.1% 0.0%
azurecloud433.3% —(n=14) 0.0%
gittool325.0% —(n=7) 0.0%
kubernetestool325.0% -4.5% 0.0%
shelllanguage325.0% -18.2% 0.0%
sqllanguage325.0% —(n=10) 0.0%
datadogtool216.7% —(n=12) 0.0%
golanguage216.7% —(n=7) 0.0%
grafanatool216.7% —(n=18) 0.0%
javalanguage216.7% —(n=10) 0.0%
linuxtool216.7% -10.0% 0.0%
machine-learningai216.7% —(n=3) 0.0%
prometheustool216.7% —(n=15) 0.0%
airflowtool18.3% —(n=1) 0.0%
google-cloudcloud18.3% —(n=15) 0.0%
javascriptlanguage18.3% —(n=1) 0.0%
jenkinstool18.3% —(n=7) 0.0%
kibanatool18.3% —(n=6) 0.0%
mssqldatabase18.3% —(n=4) 0.0%
postgresqldatabase18.3% —(n=3) 0.0%
typescriptlanguage18.3% —(n=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 57 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
Kubernetes1221.1%16.7%
Ansible1119.3%0.0%
Site Reliability Engineering1119.3%9.1%
Computer Science814.0%0.0%
Dashboards814.0%0.0%
Production Support814.0%0.0%
Root Cause Analysis814.0%0.0%
Terraform814.0%12.5%
AWS712.3%0.0%
Capacity Planning610.5%0.0%
GCP610.5%0.0%
Monitoring610.5%0.0%
Oracle Alerts610.5%0.0%
Production Environment610.5%0.0%
Progress Reporting610.5%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.