Tech Demand

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

1. Demand ranking

42 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.

aws11linux11python8google-cloud7azure5java5kubernetes4go3shell3terraform3ansible2spring2sql2docker1javascript1

2. Momentum (vs the previous 4 weeks)

Heating up

TechnologyShareChangePostings
linux26.2%+11.4pp11
aws26.2%+2.3pp11

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$10500, the median of 391 postings advertising a monthly range — medians pin the unit so the figures are comparable. Separately, 100.0% of SWE postings state pay at all (391 of 391, 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
awscloud1126.2% -7.1% 0.0%
linuxtool1126.2% -7.1% 0.0%
pythonlanguage819.0% -7.1% 0.0%
google-cloudcloud716.7% +0.0% 0.0%
azurecloud511.9% +0.0% 0.0%
javalanguage511.9% +4.8% 0.0%
kubernetestool49.5% +0.0% 0.0%
golanguage37.1% —(n=11) 0.0%
shelllanguage37.1% -7.1% 0.0%
terraformtool37.1% —(n=12) 0.0%
ansibletool24.8% —(n=19) 0.0%
springframework24.8% —(n=3) 0.0%
sqllanguage24.8% —(n=9) 0.0%
dockertool12.4% —(n=11) 0.0%
javascriptlanguage12.4% —(n=12) 0.0%
kafkatool12.4% —(n=2) 0.0%
kibanatool12.4% —(n=6) 0.0%
mssqldatabase12.4% —(n=2) 0.0%
nodejslanguage12.4% —(n=3) 0.0%
rustlanguage12.4% —(n=2) 0.0%
sparkframework12.4% —(n=1) 0.0%
typescriptlanguage12.4% —(n=3) 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 391 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
CISSP14837.9%14.9%
Security Operations9925.3%6.1%
Cybersecurity9424.0%14.9%
Computer Science8622.0%0.0%
Security Governance7819.9%1.3%
Security Architecture7418.9%12.2%
Enterprise Security Solutions7218.4%12.5%
Risk Management7218.4%0.0%
Threat Intelligence7118.2%0.0%
Cybersecurity Engineering6917.6%52.2%
Security Incident Response6717.1%28.4%
Network Security6416.4%14.1%
Cyberark6215.9%56.5%
SIEM6115.6%49.2%
Stakeholder Management5413.8%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.