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What Software Engineer job postings ask for

Python appears in 46% of Software Engineer job postings — the term employers name most often.

Counted across 2,443 Software Engineer 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. Python46% 1,117 of 2,443
  2. Go30% 723 of 2,443
  3. Java27% 662 of 2,443
  4. C++27% 652 of 2,443
  5. Kubernetes22% 543 of 2,443
  6. TypeScript20% 498 of 2,443
  7. React18% 443 of 2,443
  8. JavaScript17% 408 of 2,443
  9. Rust16% 398 of 2,443
  10. AI12% 303 of 2,443
  11. SQL12% 297 of 2,443
  12. AWS12% 282 of 2,443
  13. Docker10% 254 of 2,443
  14. CI/CD9% 210 of 2,443
  15. Distributed systems8% 207 of 2,443
  16. PostgreSQL8% 200 of 2,443
  17. Linux8% 198 of 2,443
  18. Scala8% 193 of 2,443
  19. GraphQL6% 152 of 2,443
  20. Terraform6% 151 of 2,443
  21. Ruby6% 147 of 2,443
  22. Azure6% 146 of 2,443
  23. GCP6% 145 of 2,443
  24. C5% 129 of 2,443
  25. Kafka5% 128 of 2,443

Questions about this data

What skills do most Software Engineer job postings ask for?

Across 2,443 Software Engineer postings from the last 90 days, the most frequently named are Python (46%), Go (30%), Java (27%). Each percentage is the share of those postings naming the term at least once.

How common is AI in Software Engineer postings?

AI appears in 12% of the 2,443 Software Engineer postings counted — 303 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 Software Engineer 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 2,443 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 Software Engineer 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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