Market index

What US employers are hiring for, measured daily across 51 technologies. Counts come from the job board's market-wide index, so they do not depend on which postings Signal collected.

68,596Postings indexed
3,682Employers
51Technologies tracked
1,473Verified sponsors

Language

TechnologyShare of categoryOpenings
Python 152,740
SQL 100,553
Scala 5,124

Cloud

TechnologyShare of categoryOpenings
AWS 112,574
Azure 87,663
GCP 39,625

Ml

TechnologyShare of categoryOpenings
Machine Learning 70,102
LLMs 33,788
PyTorch 12,064
TensorFlow 8,846
MLflow 2,702
AWS SageMaker 2,004

Infra

TechnologyShare of categoryOpenings
Kubernetes 47,284
Docker 33,811
Terraform 27,747

Bi

TechnologyShare of categoryOpenings
Power BI 39,034
Tableau 29,784
Looker 5,484

Warehouse

TechnologyShare of categoryOpenings
Databricks 17,195
Snowflake 15,612
BigQuery 5,150
Redshift 3,604
Teradata 2,521
Azure Synapse 1,541
Trino 785
ClickHouse 716
DuckDB 243

Database

TechnologyShare of categoryOpenings
PostgreSQL 12,770
MongoDB 7,274

Mainframe

TechnologyShare of categoryOpenings
Mainframe 6,071
CICS 5,134
Db2 3,464
COBOL 1,656
JCL 1,427

Transform

TechnologyShare of categoryOpenings
Hadoop 5,111
pandas 5,070
Apache Spark 3,086
Polars 1,674
Apache Flink 682
dbt 429

Quality

TechnologyShare of categoryOpenings
Great Expectations 5,040

Format

TechnologyShare of categoryOpenings
Delta Lake 2,213
Parquet 732
Apache Iceberg 712

Streaming

TechnologyShare of categoryOpenings
Apache Kafka 2,603
AWS Kinesis 465

Orchestration

TechnologyShare of categoryOpenings
Apache Airflow 1,397
Dagster 623
Prefect 619

Ingestion

TechnologyShare of categoryOpenings
Fivetran 663
Airbyte 156

What each skill pays

Share of postings landing in the top salary band.

TechnologyIn top bandSample
DuckDB 94.9%156
Apache Flink 93.2%162
ClickHouse 91.6%356
Apache Iceberg 89.8%225
Dagster 84.4%307
MLflow 83.9%517
dbt 81.9%155
AWS SageMaker 81.3%326
Scala 80.6%1,279
Trino 80.2%212
Apache Spark 80.1%708
Parquet 78.6%206
Fivetran 78.3%346
Delta Lake 77.6%468
Kubernetes 75.0%11,493

Measured as share-in-top-band rather than median. The source histogram has seven buckets and its highest is open-ended, absorbing 62% of postings, so medians collapse onto the same figure for nearly every technology and cannot separate them.

Tools that travel together

MentionsAlso mentionsShareLift
Parquet ORC 12.7% 1261×
Collibra Alation 32.2% 1196×
AWS Step Functions Firebolt 3.6% 1062×
REXX Assembler 73.8% 834×
Assembler REXX 60.8% 834×
Parquet Avro 16.4% 768×
REXX TSO 80.0% 751×
TSO REXX 54.7% 751×
Dagster Firebolt 2.2% 656×
VSAM REXX 43.4% 595×
REXX VSAM 70.8% 595×
Assembler TSO 60.8% 570×

Lift is how much more often a pair appears together than chance predicts.