Tech Demand

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

1. Demand ranking

10 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.

aws6linux5ansible4grafana4python4terraform4datadog3docker3java3kubernetes3prometheus3shell3azure2google-cloud2jenkins2

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$9500, the median of 96 postings advertising a monthly range — medians pin the unit so the figures are comparable. Separately, 100.0% of SWE postings state pay at all (96 of 96, 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
awscloud660.0% +4.2% 7.7%
linuxtool550.0% -5.3% 7.3%
ansibletool440.0% -5.3% 4.8%
grafanatool440.0% -5.3% 3.8%
pythonlanguage440.0% +2.6% 7.7%
terraformtool440.0% +4.2% 0.0%
datadogtool330.0% —(n=11) 9.1%
dockertool330.0% -5.3% 3.3%
javalanguage330.0% -5.3% 8.3%
kubernetestool330.0% +4.2% 4.7%
prometheustool330.0% -5.3% 0.0%
shelllanguage330.0% +0.0% 11.4%
azurecloud220.0% +0.0% 5.7%
google-cloudcloud220.0% +5.3% 6.5%
jenkinstool220.0% —(n=17) 11.8%
sqllanguage220.0% —(n=10) 20.0%
gittool110.0% —(n=18) 5.6%
github-actionstool110.0% —(n=3) 0.0%
gitlab-citool110.0% —(n=15) 13.3%
grpctool110.0% —(n=1) 0.0%
htmllanguage110.0% —(n=2) 0.0%
kafkatool110.0% —(n=7) 14.3%
kibanatool110.0% —(n=6) 0.0%
mssqldatabase110.0% —(n=1) 0.0%
mysqldatabase110.0% —(n=3) 0.0%
postgresqldatabase110.0% —(n=3) 0.0%
redisdatabase110.0% —(n=3) 0.0%
springframework110.0% —(n=6) 16.7%
swiftlanguage110.0% —(n=1) 100.0%
typescriptlanguage110.0% —(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 96 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
Site Reliability Engineering2324.0%43.5%
Kubernetes2222.9%40.9%
AWS2020.8%25.0%
Python1818.8%27.8%
Docker1717.7%17.6%
Automation Tools1414.6%0.0%
Computer Science1414.6%0.0%
Linux1414.6%28.6%
Monitoring Tools1414.6%7.1%
Production Support1414.6%0.0%
Design1313.5%0.0%
Ansible1212.5%25.0%
CI/CD1212.5%8.3%
Java1212.5%16.7%
Scalability1212.5%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.