What are the most in demand jobs?
The most in-demand jobs are the roles employers post most often relative to the people qualified to fill them. In live postings a few role families dominate: software and IT engineering, sales and account management, nursing and allied health, and operations work from logistics to customer support. The mix shifts by country, industry and job board.
Ranking jobs by demand needs a denominator. A raw count of postings measures the crawl as much as the market, because coverage differs by board and the board mix moves week to week. That is why the Labour Market Pulse publishes hiring demand as the share of live postings in each ISCO-08 occupation over a rolling window, refreshed daily, with a monthly snapshot archived as a CSV at a stable URL. The same page carries the share by ISIC industry division and advertised salary percentiles with the sample size behind every row. Read it as a cross-section for the stated window, not as a trend.
To reproduce a row, call POST /v1/jobs/search with occupation_code_or set to the ISCO-08 unit group and status set to active, then compare the result with the same query and no occupation filter. Add job_country_code_or for a country cut, job_seniority_or to split entry from senior demand, or source_or to see whether one board is carrying the occupation. The Insights endpoints under /v1/insights return the aggregates directly. The free tier covers 1,000 jobs a month, and the sandbox search endpoint needs no key at all.
For a job seeker the practical reading is narrower than a ranking. The chart below shows what engineering postings actually name: the generic tags such as communication and leadership sit above any single language or platform, and Python, the most-named technical skill, still appears in only a minority of postings. Demand for a title tells you how many doors there are, not how long the line is outside each one, because posting data cannot see the applicant side.
- communication45.1%
- compliance25.2%
- leadership24.0%
- python19.2%
- mentoring15.4%
- lean-manufacturing13.6%
- ci/cd13.1%
- aws11.5%
- agile11.1%
- teamwork10.8%
- project-management10.8%
- adaptability9.8%
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Related questions
What are the most in demand jobs right now?
The current occupation table is on the Labour Market Pulse, which lists the share of live postings in each ISCO-08 occupation for the latest snapshot and links a downloadable CSV. The shares change with every refresh, so this page describes the role families qualitatively rather than repeating a figure that will be stale by the time you read it.
How is demand for a job measured?
From the employer side by vacancies, advertised pay and how long postings stay open, and from the worker side by unemployment in the occupation and applications per opening. Posting share is the most available proxy because it is comparable across snapshots and sources, but it only sees the employer side, so a common role can look more in demand than a scarce one.
Which jobs will be in demand in the future?
Posting data cannot forecast. It is a cross-section of what employers are asking for now, and the Pulse archives a monthly snapshot so that a series builds up over time. Anyone quoting a ranking for the coming decade is working from a model or an opinion, not from postings, and the honest use of live data is to check a claim like that against what is actually being advertised.
Are software engineering jobs still in demand?
Software roles are one of the largest role families in live postings and appear across every industry, not only at software companies. Whether that demand reaches you depends on level and specialization: split a query by job_seniority_or to see how much of it is open to entry-level candidates, and by skills_or to see which languages and platforms the postings actually name.
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