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What Software Engineer job postings ask for

Python appears in 39% of Software Engineer job postings, followed by Java (33%) and Go (26%) — counted across 1,144 live postings from company career sites.

Every term below was counted in real postings published by employers. We tally what each posting names at least once, so one keyword-stuffed listing can’t inflate a number.

Counted across 1,144 Software Engineer postings gathered from company career sites and seen in the last 90 days. Percentages are the share of those postings naming each term. Last verified against live postings on ; re-checked every six hours.

Skills and tools, most-asked first

  1. Python39% · 446 of 1,144
  2. Java33% · 378 of 1,144
  3. Go26% · 297 of 1,144
  4. TypeScript23% · 263 of 1,144
  5. Kubernetes22% · 252 of 1,144
  6. C++20% · 229 of 1,144
  7. React17% · 194 of 1,144
  8. JavaScript15% · 172 of 1,144
  9. AWS15% · 172 of 1,144
  10. SQL13% · 149 of 1,144
  11. Distributed systems11% · 126 of 1,144
  12. AI11% · 126 of 1,144
  13. Rust10% · 114 of 1,144
  14. Scala9% · 103 of 1,144
  15. Docker9% · 103 of 1,144
  16. CI/CD7% · 80 of 1,144
  17. Terraform7% · 80 of 1,144
  18. GCP7% · 80 of 1,144
  19. GraphQL7% · 80 of 1,144
  20. Azure7% · 80 of 1,144
  21. Kafka7% · 80 of 1,144
  22. Spark6% · 69 of 1,144
  23. Data structures6% · 69 of 1,144
  24. PostgreSQL6% · 69 of 1,144
  25. Ruby6% · 69 of 1,144

Questions about this data

What skills do most Software Engineer job postings ask for?

Across 1,144 Software Engineer postings from the last 90 days, the most frequently named are Python (39%), Java (33%), Go (26%). Each percentage is the share of those postings naming the term at least once.

How common is SQL in Software Engineer postings?

SQL appears in 13% of the 1,144 Software Engineer postings counted — roughly 149 of them. 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 1,144 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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