Jobdex Index / July 2026
Tech Stack Demand Index
A monthly ranking of the technologies most often required in live European tech job ads. Each technology's share is the fraction of live ads that list it as a hard requirement, not a nice-to-have. The ranking is rebuilt every month, so movement between months shows what employers are asking for more, or less, over time.
Python is required in 31.1% of live European tech job ads this month, the most-listed technology in the sample. LLM experience is listed as an explicit requirement in 4.9% 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, July 2026
- 1 Python 31.1%
- 2 AWS 15.4%
- 3 Kubernetes 12.2%
- 4 SQL 12.1%
- 5 Java 11.3%
- 6 TypeScript 11%
- 7 Linux 9.6%
- 8 Go 9.5%
- 9 C++ 8.6%
- 10 Docker 8.3%
- 11 Azure 7.7%
- 12 GCP 7.3%
- 13 React 7.1%
- 14 PostgreSQL 6.9%
- 15 Terraform 6.3%
- 16 Git 6%
- 17 JavaScript 5.7%
- 18 Machine Learning 5.4%
- 19 LLM 4.9%
- 20 Node.js 4.9%
Month-over-month movement appears here once a second monthly snapshot exists.
Methodology
Each month a snapshot counts, over the tech job ads live on Jobdex on capture day, how often each technology appears as a required skill. "Required" means the extraction pipeline marked it a must-have for the role, as distinct from nice-to-have or bonus skills; a technology listed only as a plus is not counted here. Share is the count divided by the total live ads that month. Ads are aggregated directly from company career sites via their applicant tracking systems. Snapshots are append-only, so a published month never changes retroactively. Ranking movement is computed against the immediately preceding monthly snapshot.
Cite freely with a link to this page. Every month's numbers are downloadable as JSON. The underlying live data is browsable at jobdex.io/jobs. See also the one-off H1 2026 report.