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Software Engineer Skills
C++ is the most in-demand skill for Software Engineer roles, asked for in 35% of 2,779 live Software Engineer listings. The most-requested skills are C++, Python, GCP, Kubernetes, and AWS.
Ranked by live-role demand across active Software Engineer listings. Updated 1 hour ago.
Most-requested skills
| Skill | Share of roles | Listings |
|---|---|---|
| C++ | 35% | 986 |
| Python | 35% | 980 |
| GCP | 33% | 917 |
| Kubernetes | 29% | 813 |
| AWS | 27% | 757 |
| Android | 26% | 732 |
| Speech Recognition | 26% | 709 |
| iOS | 25% | 704 |
| CI/CD | 25% | 695 |
| Docker | 22% | 613 |
| Machine Learning | 21% | 586 |
| Azure | 19% | 537 |
| Java | 18% | 510 |
| Distributed Systems | 18% | 488 |
| Agentic AI | 17% | 466 |
| GPU | 14% | 400 |
| TypeScript | 14% | 396 |
| LLMs | 14% | 393 |
| C# | 13% | 357 |
| Kotlin | 12% | 336 |
| React | 12% | 322 |
| Robotics | 10% | 284 |
| Autonomous Vehicles | 10% | 269 |
| Data Engineering | 8% | 227 |
| Rust | 8% | 212 |
| PostgreSQL | 7% | 192 |
| CUDA | 6% | 154 |
| Deep Learning | 5% | 149 |
| SQL | 5% | 140 |
| JavaScript | 5% | 137 |
| Terraform | 5% | 137 |
| PyTorch | 4% | 123 |
| Node.js | 4% | 117 |
| Go | 4% | 102 |
| Snowflake | 4% | 98 |
| Spark | 3% | 94 |
| Generative AI | 3% | 91 |
| Kafka | 3% | 87 |
| RAG | 3% | 86 |
| Computer Vision | 3% | 77 |
| Prompt Engineering | 3% | 73 |
| Data Science | 3% | 70 |
| Foundation Models | 2% | 68 |
| Embeddings | 2% | 68 |
| Redis | 2% | 66 |
| Fine-tuning | 2% | 65 |
| Multimodal | 2% | 60 |
| Vector Databases | 2% | 53 |
| Airflow | 2% | 51 |
| FastAPI | 2% | 48 |
| GraphQL | 2% | 45 |
| Model Context Protocol | 2% | 45 |
| Elasticsearch | 2% | 44 |
| TensorRT | 2% | 43 |
| JAX | 2% | 42 |
| BigQuery | 1% | 40 |
| TensorFlow | 1% | 40 |
| Reinforcement Learning | 1% | 39 |
| vLLM | 1% | 39 |
| LangChain | 1% | 34 |
| Databricks | 1% | 34 |
| Django | 1% | 31 |
| Scala | 1% | 30 |
| MongoDB | 1% | 30 |
| Triton | 1% | 29 |
| MLOps | 1% | 28 |
| Quantization | 1% | 24 |
| NLP | 1% | 23 |
| dbt | 1% | 22 |
| pandas | 1% | 18 |
| LangGraph | 1% | 18 |
| Time Series | 1% | 18 |
| ONNX | 1% | 17 |
| Pinecone | 1% | 16 |
| NumPy | 1% | 16 |
| Flask | 1% | 15 |
| Hugging Face | 1% | 14 |
| LlamaIndex | 0% | 11 |
| Recommendation Systems | 0% | 10 |
| Diffusion Models | 0% | 9 |
| LoRA | 0% | 8 |
| Weaviate | 0% | 8 |
| pgvector | 0% | 7 |
| Milvus | 0% | 7 |
| Ruby | 0% | 7 |
| scikit-learn | 0% | 7 |
| Pydantic AI | 0% | 6 |
| Transformers | 0% | 6 |
| MATLAB | 0% | 5 |
| SageMaker | 0% | 5 |
| Mistral | 0% | 5 |
| LangSmith | 0% | 4 |
| Llama | 0% | 3 |
| Tableau | 0% | 3 |
| PEFT | 0% | 3 |
| MLflow | 0% | 3 |
| Vertex AI | 0% | 3 |
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About this data
- What skills do Software Engineer roles need?
- C++ is the most in-demand skill for Software Engineer roles, asked for in 35% of 2,779 live Software Engineer listings. The most-requested skills are C++, Python, GCP, Kubernetes, and AWS.
- How is demand measured?
- We scan the title and description of every active Software Engineer listing for a curated vocabulary of skills, then rank each by the number of distinct live roles that mention it. Share is that count divided by all active Software Engineer roles.
- How current is it?
- It reflects live listings and updates as new roles are posted and old ones close.