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Skills: pay and hiring demand

Track which skills employers actually ask for, what they pay when a salary range is published, and how demand splits by job family and country.

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192 skills tracked · 133,549 open roles Only postings with an employer-stated salary range are counted in pay figures.

Direct answer

Which skills pay best, and which are employers actually hiring for? Across 192 tracked skills, each page shows the share of open roles requiring that skill, the employer-stated median pay where a range is published, and the job families and countries where demand concentrates — all rebuilt from public job postings.

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Skill pay and demand at a glance

Open roles, share of postings and employer-stated median pay for each tracked skill.

Skill Open roles Share Median pay (stated) Rated ranges
Python 9,587 7.2% $171,750 4,164
Excel 9,003 6.7% $97,500 3,080
SQL 7,324 5.5% $157,000 2,781
Roadmapping 7,151 5.4% $199,500 3,340
AWS 6,210 4.6% $174,960 2,393
LLM 5,045 3.8% $195,500 2,345
Agile 4,513 3.4% $138,100 1,283
CI/CD 4,455 3.3% $170,000 1,622
iOS 4,411 3.3% $140,000 1,242
Salesforce 4,044 3.0% $148,750 1,976
CRM 3,905 2.9% $107,920 1,426
Azure 3,894 2.9% $166,000 1,434
Procurement 3,893 2.9% $160,750 1,429
Supply Chain 3,812 2.9% $135,000 1,426
GCP 3,515 2.6% $179,500 1,524
Kubernetes 3,343 2.5% $183,676 1,517
Negotiation 3,223 2.4% $160,000 1,106
React 3,097 2.3% $180,500 1,044
Java 3,014 2.3% $150,546 1,064
Git 2,902 2.2% $154,800 1,044
Account Management 2,710 2.0% $135,000 1,178
A/B Testing 2,658 2.0% $187,500 1,219
TypeScript 2,591 1.9% $190,000 1,284
Payroll 2,517 1.9% $140,000 840
Linux 2,347 1.8% $160,000 846
JavaScript 2,286 1.7% $152,352 897
Docker 2,227 1.7% $160,000 751
C++ 2,062 1.5% $185,000 828
Führerschein 2,052 1.5% $50,674 570
Terraform 2,049 1.5% $177,550 818
Spark 2,038 1.5% $193,500 972
SAP 2,002 1.5% $129,600 450
Jira 1,911 1.4% $131,300 584
Databricks 1,888 1.4% $212,325 791
Patient Care 1,841 1.4% $95,000 600
REST 1,836 1.4% $132,118 467
Prototyping 1,673 1.3% $175,000 717
Power BI 1,361 1.0% $106,080 292
Oracle 1,255 0.9% $138,100 490
CAD 1,230 0.9% $120,000 401
Node.js 1,150 0.9% $169,890 417
Snowflake 1,141 0.9% $182,500 522
Figma 1,133 0.8% $175,000 382
Tableau 1,125 0.8% $129,700 437
Bash 1,113 0.8% $142,500 488
Design Systems 1,099 0.8% $191,500 427
SOC 2 1,094 0.8% $194,150 379
R 1,081 0.8% $103,766 572
Kafka 1,034 0.8% $194,000 429
Registered Nurse 992 0.7% $91,344 254
Android 947 0.7% $167,500 284
.NET 943 0.7% $145,000 171
Datadog 918 0.7% $169,358 492
Site Reliability 878 0.7% $187,500 314
Grafana 874 0.7% $169,358 402
HubSpot 862 0.6% $110,500 415
GDPR 848 0.6% $155,125 326
Lead Generation 845 0.6% $115,000 310
Rust 838 0.6% $210,000 395
MongoDB 825 0.6% $150,000 332
PyTorch 825 0.6% $222,500 302
Kotlin 823 0.6% $192,028 267
EMR/EHR 821 0.6% $125,000 402
Workday 793 0.6% $142,500 338
Financial Modeling 774 0.6% $170,000 348
FP&A 773 0.6% $158,891 376
ServiceNow 770 0.6% $157,500 276
C# 713 0.5% $130,000 234
HVAC 713 0.5% $61,360 251
IAM 708 0.5% $166,800 333
Lean/Six Sigma 676 0.5% $105,000 300
Vue 675 0.5% $129,231 153
First Aid 669 0.5% $45,760 259
NetSuite 663 0.5% $142,000 396
English C1+ 655 0.5% $54,238 90
ETL 649 0.5% $148,379 223
Prometheus 644 0.5% $170,000 289
Looker 640 0.5% $130,000 340
Prompt Engineering 634 0.5% $187,500 270
Cold Calling 632 0.5% $85,000 242
ISO 27001 625 0.5% $187,500 247
Rails 613 0.5% $183,500 176
Adobe Creative Suite 609 0.5% $125,000 210
Swift 605 0.5% $157,500 233
RAG 603 0.5% $187,500 230
OSHA 596 0.4% $74,880 210
Jenkins 579 0.4% $145,000 191
Angular 575 0.4% $135,000 141
Elasticsearch 574 0.4% $122,792 345
Ansible 572 0.4% $160,000 218
Forklift 567 0.4% $47,320 168
Airflow 561 0.4% $195,000 231
Plumbing 560 0.4% $58,754 242
TensorFlow 555 0.4% $205,000 151
MLOps 549 0.4% $216,104 181
Computer Vision 548 0.4% $175,000 231
GraphQL 545 0.4% $180,000 261
Redis 541 0.4% $202,500 214
BigQuery 534 0.4% $168,935 254
Ruby 518 0.4% $183,500 269
Scala 501 0.4% $213,750 214
Blockchain 495 0.4% $175,000 161
AML/KYC 493 0.4% $135,000 148
PHP 490 0.4% $17,152 169
Welding 474 0.4% $85,280 151
US GAAP 443 0.3% $150,000 202
Serverless 440 0.3% $160,000 214
Spring 440 0.3% $138,100 92
User Research 435 0.3% $180,500 233
Zendesk 420 0.3% $98,000 169
Project Management 415 0.3% $140,263 113
LangChain 401 0.3% $180,000 156
Go 389 0.3% $185,000 168
SEO 386 0.3% $112,500 139
MATLAB 379 0.3% $160,000 196
Reinforcement Learning 379 0.3% $275,000 223
Laravel 346 0.3% $187,000 5
Underwriting 335 0.3% $180,500 155
Clinical Trials 331 0.2% $150,000 157
IFRS 327 0.2% $100,000 62
Next.js 326 0.2% $197,050 115
Flask 320 0.2% $152,500 26
gRPC 316 0.2% $187,500 138
Zero Trust 313 0.2% $163,700 150
Google Analytics 310 0.2% $65,000 131
Google Ads 287 0.2% $82,500 112
Splunk 285 0.2% $164,500 137
Pandas 282 0.2% $163,000 106
Salesforce Apex 280 0.2% $152,500 186
Penetration Testing 275 0.2% $185,000 126
NLP 266 0.2% $170,500 154
SIEM 257 0.2% $161,650 130
React Native 247 0.2% $185,000 126
CDL 244 0.2% $60,000 47
DynamoDB 240 0.2% $160,000 108
FastAPI 231 0.2% $172,500 78
Redshift 230 0.2% $145,000 112
dbt 228 0.2% $170,000 103
scikit-learn 219 0.2% $176,500 79
Marketo 212 0.2% $145,000 128
Pharmacy 210 0.2% $80,163 44
Intercom 209 0.2% $143,200 74
Tailwind 201 0.2% $215,000 34
Django 199 0.1% $153,594 70
Flink 184 0.1% $213,000 82
Hadoop 180 0.1% $185,750 60
CNC 173 0.1% $91,166 76
Meta Ads 172 0.1% $72,500 53
ClickHouse 162 0.1% $205,000 93
Hugging Face 156 0.1% $205,000 55
NumPy 153 0.1% $83,200 73
Cryptography 149 0.1% $206,300 74
QuickBooks 138 0.1% $135,000 53
Pulumi 136 0.1% $175,000 71
Cassandra 132 0.1% $116,979 74
Perl 128 0.1% $164,000 28
Dart 109 0.1% $128,014 32
German C1+ 107 0.1% $53,564 11
PLC 99 0.1% $67,600 53
Product Analytics 95 0.1% $68,081 56
Sketch 95 0.1% $175,000 25
Salesloft 93 0.1% $95,000 38
Medical Coding 87 0.1% $107,500 51
Istio 85 0.1% $200,000 44
Dagster 81 0.1% $187,500 40
DATEV 80 0.1% $47,825 2
Objective-C 80 0.1% $102,121 45
Webpack 77 0.1% $70,894 47
Electrical Wiring 66 0.0% $80,000 13
French fluent 65 0.0% $56,265 6
Xero 65 0.0% $15,972 21
Contract Law 60 0.0% $154,000 19
Helm 60 0.0% $170,500 36
Electron 59 0.0% $130,000 14
Prefect 59 0.0% $156,700 37
Phlebotomy 52 0.0% $130,000 28
Nginx 49 0.0% $140,883 19
Neo4j 47 0.0% $220,300 10
VBA 40 0.0% $88,273 9
Gong 38 0.0% $148,298 18
HGB 36 0.0% $43,212 3
Pardot 35 0.0% $102,485 15
Svelte 35 0.0% $187,200 8
WebGL 31 0.0% $210,500 15
Elixir 29 0.0% $155,360 12
COBOL 25 0.0% $185,200 4
Three.js 18 0.0% $200,000 10
Haskell 17 0.0% $130,000 3
Outreach 14 0.0% $66,500 5
Solidity 12 0.0% $240,000 3
Clojure 11 0.0% $213,000 4
DuckDB 10 0.0% $98,865 2

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Python n=9,587 Excel n=9,003 SQL n=7,324 Roadmapping n=7,151 AWS n=6,210 LLM n=5,045 Agile n=4,513 CI/CD n=4,455 iOS n=4,411 Salesforce n=4,044 CRM n=3,905 Azure n=3,894 Procurement n=3,893 Supply Chain n=3,812 GCP n=3,515 Kubernetes n=3,343 Negotiation n=3,223 React n=3,097 Java n=3,014 Git n=2,902 Account Management n=2,710 A/B Testing n=2,658 TypeScript n=2,591 Payroll n=2,517 Linux n=2,347 JavaScript n=2,286 Docker n=2,227 C++ n=2,062 Führerschein n=2,052 Terraform n=2,049 Spark n=2,038 SAP n=2,002 Jira n=1,911 Databricks n=1,888 Patient Care n=1,841 REST n=1,836 Prototyping n=1,673 Power BI n=1,361 Oracle n=1,255 CAD n=1,230 Node.js n=1,150 Snowflake n=1,141 Figma n=1,133 Tableau n=1,125 Bash n=1,113 Design Systems n=1,099 SOC 2 n=1,094 R n=1,081 Kafka n=1,034 Registered Nurse n=992 Android n=947 .NET n=943 Datadog n=918 Site Reliability n=878 Grafana n=874 HubSpot n=862 GDPR n=848 Lead Generation n=845 Rust n=838 MongoDB n=825 PyTorch n=825 Kotlin n=823 EMR/EHR n=821 Workday n=793 Financial Modeling n=774 FP&A n=773 ServiceNow n=770 C# n=713 HVAC n=713 IAM n=708 Lean/Six Sigma n=676 Vue n=675 First Aid n=669 NetSuite n=663 English C1+ n=655 ETL n=649 Prometheus n=644 Looker n=640 Prompt Engineering n=634 Cold Calling n=632 ISO 27001 n=625 Rails n=613 Adobe Creative Suite n=609 Swift n=605 RAG n=603 OSHA n=596 Jenkins n=579 Angular n=575 Elasticsearch n=574 Ansible n=572 Forklift n=567 Airflow n=561 Plumbing n=560 TensorFlow n=555 MLOps n=549 Computer Vision n=548 GraphQL n=545 Redis n=541 BigQuery n=534 Ruby n=518 Scala n=501 Blockchain n=495 AML/KYC n=493 PHP n=490 Welding n=474 US GAAP n=443 Serverless n=440 Spring n=440 User Research n=435 Zendesk n=420 Project Management n=415 LangChain n=401 Go n=389 SEO n=386 MATLAB n=379 Reinforcement Learning n=379 Laravel n=346 Underwriting n=335 Clinical Trials n=331 IFRS n=327 Next.js n=326 Flask n=320 gRPC n=316 Zero Trust n=313 Google Analytics n=310 Google Ads n=287 Splunk n=285 Pandas n=282 Salesforce Apex n=280 Penetration Testing n=275 NLP n=266 SIEM n=257 React Native n=247 CDL n=244 DynamoDB n=240 FastAPI n=231 Redshift n=230 dbt n=228 scikit-learn n=219 Marketo n=212 Pharmacy n=210 Intercom n=209 Tailwind n=201 Django n=199 Flink n=184 Hadoop n=180 CNC n=173 Meta Ads n=172 ClickHouse n=162 Hugging Face n=156 NumPy n=153 Cryptography n=149 QuickBooks n=138 Pulumi n=136 Cassandra n=132 Perl n=128 Dart n=109 German C1+ n=107 PLC n=99 Product Analytics n=95 Sketch n=95 Salesloft n=93 Medical Coding n=87 Istio n=85 Dagster n=81 DATEV n=80 Objective-C n=80 Webpack n=77 Electrical Wiring n=66 French fluent n=65 Xero n=65 Contract Law n=60 Helm n=60 Electron n=59 Prefect n=59 Phlebotomy n=52 Nginx n=49 Neo4j n=47 VBA n=40 Gong n=38 HGB n=36 Pardot n=35 Svelte n=35 WebGL n=31 Elixir n=29 COBOL n=25 Three.js n=18 Haskell n=17 Outreach n=14 Solidity n=12 Clojure n=11 DuckDB n=10

Every tracked skill, listed alphabetically with the number of open roles behind it. Skills →

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