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Software Engineer

Software engineering is the single largest hiring category in Seeker's corpus. Here's what these roles actually ask for in 2026 — drawn from live listings, not job-board boilerplate.

69,000 active engineering listings in Seeker's corpus (34.6% of ~200,000) · data as of July 2026

Most-requested skills

Cloud computingthe most-named technical skill across recent listings
AWS62%of Python-requiring roles
Docker48%of Python-requiring roles
SQL45%of Python-requiring roles
Pythonrequired by ~11.5% of all listings

Skills that cost interviews

Frequently required, frequently missing from resumes:

KubernetesTerraformCI/CDDistributed systems

Rising fast

Platform engineering Machine learning Kubernetes Terraform

Adjacent paths

BackendPlatform Engineering
FrontendFull-Stack
Full-StackBackend / Infrastructure

34% of these roles are remote-eligible.

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Python developer skills in demand Most-requested software engineering skills Platform engineering is surging

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