Tech Demand

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

1. Demand ranking

22 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.

java13kotlin12swift9cpp5git4javascript3jenkins3llm3python3sql3ansible2generative-ai2go2machine-learning2mssql2

2. Momentum (vs the previous 4 weeks)

Heating up

TechnologyShareChangePostings
java59.1%+20.3pp13
kotlin54.5%+16.5pp12

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 202 postings advertising a monthly range — medians pin the unit so the figures are comparable. Separately, 100.0% of SWE postings state pay at all (202 of 202, 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
javalanguage1359.1% +6.5% 32.4%
kotlinlanguage1254.5% +6.5% 26.1%
swiftlanguage940.9% +3.2% 32.7%
cpplanguage522.7% —(n=17) 58.8%
gittool418.2% +3.2% 7.3%
javascriptlanguage313.6% +9.7% 44.0%
jenkinstool313.6% —(n=19) 0.0%
llmai313.6% —(n=10) 30.0%
pythonlanguage313.6% —(n=14) 50.0%
sqllanguage313.6% -56.1% 67.9%
ansibletool29.1% —(n=2) 0.0%
generative-aiai29.1% —(n=6) 16.7%
golanguage29.1% —(n=7) 57.1%
machine-learningai29.1% —(n=9) 22.2%
mssqldatabase29.1% -56.1% 86.4%
nodejslanguage29.1% —(n=4) 50.0%
springframework29.1% -56.1% 90.5%
sqlitedatabase29.1% -56.1% 62.5%
awscloud14.5% —(n=12) 8.3%
google-cloudcloud14.5% —(n=5) 0.0%
grpctool14.5% —(n=7) 14.3%
nlpai14.5% —(n=2) 50.0%
tensorflowai14.5% —(n=6) 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 202 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
iOS6130.2%8.2%
Java5527.2%3.6%
Kotlin5326.2%9.4%
Android SDK5125.2%9.8%
Android Application Development5024.8%10.0%
iOS Development4924.3%8.2%
Computer Science4723.3%0.0%
Debugging3919.3%0.0%
Android Studio3316.3%6.1%
Application Development3316.3%3.0%
Design3316.3%0.0%
Troubleshooting3215.8%0.0%
Swift (Programming Language)2713.4%25.9%
MySQL2612.9%0.0%
Android2512.4%12.0%
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.