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What Engineering Manager job postings ask for

AI appears in 34% of Engineering Manager job postings — the term employers name most often.

Counted across 423 Engineering Manager postings gathered from company career sites and seen in the last 90 days. Each percentage is the share of those postings naming the term at least once. Last verified ; re-checked every six hours.

How these numbers are counted

Skills and tools, most-asked first

  1. AI34% 143 of 423
  2. Python14% 60 of 423
  3. Distributed systems12% 52 of 423
  4. AWS10% 41 of 423
  5. Java7% 31 of 423
  6. Go7% 30 of 423
  7. Computer vision7% 29 of 423
  8. Networking7% 28 of 423
  9. Sensor fusion6% 27 of 423
  10. SQL6% 25 of 423
  11. Kubernetes6% 24 of 423
  12. LLM5% 23 of 423
  13. GCP5% 22 of 423
  14. Observability5% 21 of 423
  15. Azure5% 20 of 423
  16. Linux4% 19 of 423
  17. CI/CD4% 18 of 423
  18. C++4% 17 of 423
  19. Rust4% 17 of 423
  20. Machine learning4% 16 of 423
  21. Matlab4% 15 of 423
  22. Databricks4% 15 of 423
  23. Apache spark3% 14 of 423
  24. JavaScript3% 13 of 423
  25. SaaS3% 12 of 423

Questions about this data

What skills do most Engineering Manager job postings ask for?

Across 423 Engineering Manager postings from the last 90 days, the most frequently named are AI (34%), Python (14%), Distributed systems (12%). Each percentage is the share of those postings naming the term at least once.

How common is SQL in Engineering Manager postings?

SQL appears in 6% of the 423 Engineering Manager postings counted — 25 of them exactly. That places it mid-pack rather than near-universal, which is worth knowing before you rewrite a résumé around it.

Where does this Engineering Manager data come from?

Public job postings published by employers on their own career sites, collected through the official Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby job-board APIs. It is a count of 423 real postings seen in the last 90 days — not a survey, an estimate, or a model's guess.

Should I add these skills to my résumé?

Only the ones you genuinely have. Frequency tells you which terms to surface and phrase in the employer's own words if they are already true of you. Adding a skill you can't defend is the fastest way to fail an interview, so FreshStartr reports gaps rather than writing them in.

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Which of these does your résumé actually evidence?

Paste a Engineering Manager posting and you get a line-by-line match report: what you already prove, and what you don’t. Gaps are reported, never written in for you.

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