Tech Hiring Demand Trends

How each skill's share of tagged job postings has moved, computed from roles on the company career pages Joblaze scans. Every row shows its postings month by month, so you can weigh it yourself.

Rising

Change measured May 2026 → Aug 2026.

Skill First month Last month Change Postings by month Total postings
React 3.69% 5.91% +2.2pp, +60.1% 103 / 138 / 147 / 163 551
TypeScript 4.66% 6.16% +1.5pp, +32.3% 130 / 170 / 203 / 170 673
AI 6.34% 8.16% +1.8pp, +28.6% 177 / 204 / 257 / 225 863
Terraform 3.87% 4.89% +1.0pp, +26.5% 108 / 143 / 130 / 135 516

Falling

Change measured May 2026 → Aug 2026.

Skill First month Last month Change Postings by month Total postings
SaaS 10.21% 6.38% -3.8pp, -37.5% 285 / 220 / 259 / 176 940
Sales 4.62% 2.94% -1.7pp, -36.5% 129 / 117 / 113 / 81 440
APIs 2.58% 1.7% -0.9pp, -33.9% 72 / 46 / 64 / 47 229
Salesforce 7.85% 5.55% -2.3pp, -29.3% 219 / 165 / 215 / 153 752
Ruby 2.65% 1.89% -0.8pp, -28.9% 74 / 79 / 88 / 52 293

Methodology

Each month counts the roles first observed by Joblaze on a career page that month. A skill's share is its postings divided by all postings that carry at least one skill tag — not all postings, because the share of roles that are technical changes over time and would otherwise look like every skill declining.

Only companies that posted in every month are counted, so onboarding a new employer cannot move a skill. No single company may account for more than 35% of a skill's postings in a month; above that the skill is withheld rather than shown, because one company's hiring freeze is not an industry trend.

The first month of coverage and the current in-progress month are both excluded. These figures describe hiring across the tech companies Joblaze scans, not the whole market, and they are a measurement of what has happened — not a forecast.