What roles at Software companies require at tech companies · 74 roles · 6 companies · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
74 roles counted at Software companies, one per company, title and level; 359 postings in the window.
In short
At Software companies, Python is required most often, in 39 of 74 (53%) roles whose requirements we read in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026, then Go (23) and TypeScript (20). The largest group is software engineer roles: 24 of 74 (32%). We counted 74 roles at 6 companies.
- Python
- 39 of 74 (53%)
- Required most often, of the roles we could read
- Largest group
- 24 of 74 (32%)
- Software engineer
- Remote roles
- 19 of 74 (26%)
- Of the roles we could read for it
What the postings ask for
Out of the 74 roles whose requirements we could read, of 74 in all. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Python | 39 of 74 (53%) |
| Go | 23 of 74 (31%) |
| TypeScript | 20 of 74 (27%) |
| AI | 18 of 74 (24%) |
| Rust | 13 of 74 (18%) |
| Java | 12 of 74 (16%) |
| JavaScript | 12 of 74 (16%) |
| Cybersecurity | 11 of 74 (15%) |
| SQL | 11 of 74 (15%) |
| AWS | 10 of 74 (14%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Observability | 14 of 74 (19%) |
| Kubernetes | 12 of 74 (16%) |
| Distributed Systems | 10 of 74 (14%) |
| AI | 9 of 74 (12%) |
| Docker | 8 of 74 (11%) |
| CI/CD | 7 of 74 (9%) |
| Git | 7 of 74 (9%) |
| PostgreSQL | 6 of 74 (8%) |
| LLMs | 5 of 74 (7%) |
| Redis | 5 of 74 (7%) |
Roles at Software companies
By title family, each count out of the roles at Software companies.
| Role | Roles | Of the industry's roles |
|---|---|---|
| Software engineer | 24 | 24 of 74 (32%) |
| Security engineer | 12 | 12 of 74 (16%) |
| Data scientist | 9 | 9 of 74 (12%) |
| Forward deployed engineer | 9 | 9 of 74 (12%) |
| Site reliability engineer | 7 | 7 of 74 (9%) |
| AI engineer | 2 | 2 of 74 (3%) |
| Data engineer | 2 | 2 of 74 (3%) |
| DevOps engineer | 2 | 2 of 74 (3%) |
| Platform engineer | 2 | 2 of 74 (3%) |
| Research scientist | 2 | 2 of 74 (3%) |
Companies
Experience
Of the 32 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 31 of 32
- 2+ years
- 31 of 32
- 3+ years
- 28 of 32
- 5+ years
- 16 of 32
- 8+ years
- 5 of 32
- 10+ years
- 4 of 32
Degree
Of the 71 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 9 of 71 (13%)
- Required, or experience instead
- 8 of 71 (11%)
- Preferred
- 3 of 71 (4%)
- Not mentioned
- 51 of 71 (72%)
Pay and remote work
Of the 74 roles we could read for it
- Roles stating pay
- 25 of 74 (34%)
- Remote roles
- 19 of 74 (26%)
How we count: 74 roles from 6 employers in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026, each role counted once however many boards post it. Industry is the company's label from its job board; companies without a label are not counted here. Skills are counted out of the roles whose requirements we read. Roles are not filtered by country. Methodology