Measured from live jobs
Software Engineer skills employers ask for
From 11,679 open Software Engineer job postings on Rolearch, read and tagged skill by skill. Updated every night as jobs open and close.
The most-asked skills
Share of Software Engineer postings that mention each skill.
- Pythondistinctive41%
- AWSdistinctive36%
- Training and coaching33%
- Javadistinctive30%
- CI/CDdistinctive28%
- C++distinctive25%
- Leadership24%
- Kubernetesdistinctive23%
- Communication22%
- Stakeholder management21%
- LLMsdistinctive21%
- Gitdistinctive18%
- Problem solving17%
- Agiledistinctive16%
- Azuredistinctive15%
“Distinctive” means Software Engineer postings ask for it at least three times as often as jobs overall.
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Where Software Engineer skills carry over
Roles whose postings ask for the most similar skills. Overlap counts the skills that define each role most.
Questions
- What skills does a Software Engineer need?
- In 11,679 current Software Engineer job postings, the skills asked for most often are Python (41%), AWS (36%), Training and coaching (33%), Java (30%), CI/CD (28%). Percentages are the share of postings that mention each skill.
- What jobs can a Software Engineer move into?
- Measured by shared skill demand, the closest roles are Software Tester, Full Stack Developer, DevOps Engineer, Cloud Engineer. Software Tester shares skills such as Python, Java, CI/CD.
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