Tech Stack Demand Index

Python is required in 32.5% of live European tech job ads this month, the most-listed technology in the sample. LLM experience is listed as an explicit requirement in 5.9% of ads. A required technology is one the ad states as a must-have; the pipeline distinguishes it from nice-to-have mentions at extraction.

Top 30 required technologies, August 2026

• 1 Python
  32.5% 0
• 2 AWS
  18% 0
• 3 Kubernetes
  13.1% 0
• 4 SQL
  12.4% 0
• 5 TypeScript
  12.3% +1
• 6 Java
  10.3% -1
• 7 Go
  9.9% +1
• 8 GCP
  9.1% +4
• 9 Docker
  8.9% +1
• 10 Linux
  8.7% -3
• 11 Terraform
  8% +4
• 12 React
  8% +1
• 13 Azure
  8% -2
• 14 PostgreSQL
  7% 0
• 15 C++
  6.7% -6
• 16 LLM
  5.9% +3
• 17 Machine Learning
  5.7% +1
• 18 Git
  5.2% -2
• 19 JavaScript
  5% -2
• 20 Node.js
  4.8% 0
• 21 Kotlin
  3.8% new
• 22 Rust
  3.1% new
• 23 Kafka
  3% new
• 24 C#
  2.9% new
• 25 GitHub Actions
  2.8% new
• 26 PyTorch
  2.8% new
• 27 Spring Boot
  2.5% new
• 28 C
  2.5% new
• 29 Bash
  2.5% new
• 30 MySQL
  2.1% new

The last column is the change in rank versus the previous month: a positive number means the technology climbed the ranking, "new" means it was not in last month's top list.