Current openings
Current titles, skills, certification language, location, and requirement posture. Not national demand or personal hiring odds.
What employers name in current openings
What tech employers actually ask for
This index publishes current-opening patterns only when a role panel has at least 200 balanced postings, 50 employers, and 3 source families. A role whose sample is smaller than that is not shown here at all, rather than shown with a caveat. Current openings, durable job requirements, labor filings, training purchases, and funding policies remain separate evidence classes — never one inflated “jobs found” number.
Evidence classes
What each source can actually tell you
Durable requirements
Employer-owned job specifications and workforce rules. They can describe stable duties or gates, but not prove a position is open today.
Labor filings
Employer, occupation, geography, education, and experience patterns in official filings. They are not a count of all hiring.
Training and funding
Solicitations, awards, partner mandates, and verified assistance policies. Each is labeled by status and never treated as a job opening.
The cert question, answered with data
Do employers actually name certifications? It depends on the role.
The panels shown here draw on 2,544 balanced postings across 4 roles. At least one certification was named somewhere in 4 of those roles — but “named once” and “named often” are different findings, which is why the table below ranks nothing under five mentions and the panels print the raw count.
| Roles that name certs most | Most-named certification (mentions in this panel) |
|---|---|
| Cloud Engineer | Security+ (12) |
| Software Developer | Security+ (8) |
| Technology Customer Success Manager | CCNA / Security+ (6) |
| AI Specialist | Too few mentions to rank |
By role — with the sample behind it
What employers name, role by role
Software Developer
1,096 postingsPython · 452AWS · 371Software development · 330TypeScript · 328Kubernetes · 306Java · 284React · 253API · 242GCP · 209GitHub · 196Azure · 194JavaScript · 170
Certifications namedSecurity+ · 8
Example companies in the pool (alphabetical): 1Password, Affirm, Airbnb, Anthropic, AnyDesk, Asana, BeyondTrust, Bishop Fox
Based on an employer-balanced sample of 1,096 public job postings from 101 employers across 4 source families, collected July 2026. Qualitative employer-language sample only; do not use as official demand, market-size, salary, or certification ROI evidence. This is a sample of public postings, not representative of the whole market.
AI Specialist
772 postingsMachine learning · 440Python · 382LLM · 313PyTorch · 134AWS · 132OpenAI · 130SQL · 126API · 108Problem solving · 107Okta · 92Asana · 90GCP · 85
Certifications namedCCNA · 1Security+ · 1
Example companies in the pool (alphabetical): 1Password, Affirm, Airbnb, Anthropic, Asana, Aviatrix, BeyondTrust, Booz Allen Hamilton
Based on an employer-balanced sample of 772 public job postings from 72 employers across 4 source families, collected July 2026. Qualitative employer-language sample only; do not use as official demand, market-size, salary, or certification ROI evidence. This is a sample of public postings, not representative of the whole market.
Technology Customer Success Manager
422 postingsProblem solving · 97Cybersecurity · 87AWS · 69Azure · 68Python · 62Excel · 56GCP · 53SQL · 52API · 50Kubernetes · 40Project Management · 39Software development · 35
Certifications namedCCNA · 6Security+ · 6Network+ · 5PMP · 3
Example companies in the pool (alphabetical): 1Password, Affirm, Anthropic, Asana, BeyondTrust, Bitwarden, Blumira, Box
Based on an employer-balanced sample of 422 public job postings from 76 employers across 4 source families, collected July 2026. Qualitative employer-language sample only; do not use as official demand, market-size, salary, or certification ROI evidence. This is a sample of public postings, not representative of the whole market.
Cloud Engineer
254 postingsKubernetes · 168AWS · 164Terraform · 126Python · 124Azure · 113GCP · 95Docker · 84Linux · 62Software development · 58Ansible · 57Incident response · 55Troubleshooting · 51
Certifications namedSecurity+ · 12CCNA · 6Linux+ · 3CySA+ · 2PMP · 1
Example companies in the pool (alphabetical): 1Password, Affirm, Airbnb, AnyDesk, Asana, Aviatrix, Booz Allen Hamilton, Box
Based on an employer-balanced sample of 254 public job postings from 68 employers across 4 source families, collected July 2026. Qualitative employer-language sample only; do not use as official demand, market-size, salary, or certification ROI evidence. This is a sample of public postings, not representative of the whole market.
Common questions
The hiring signal, answered honestly
- Where does this data come from?
- Current-opening panels can use employer-owned career pages, JobPosting structured data, career sitemaps and feeds, authorized public endpoints, and public ATS boards. Durable job specifications, labor filings, training procurement, funding policies, and partner mandates are stored as separate evidence classes and are never added together as jobs found.
- Do I need a certification to get a tech job?
- It depends on the role, employer, sector, and requirement posture. Each role panel below lists every certification named in that sample with its mention count, so you can see how thin a signal is before you act on it; a credential is only ranked in the summary table when it reaches five mentions. Counts are mentions, not distinct employers, and a mention does not prove that a credential is necessary or sufficient for you.
- Does a bigger posting count mean more jobs are available?
- No. The posting count is a sample-size disclosure, not total openings or market demand. RoleMath also caps employer concentration and discloses the employer count, the number of source families, and the month the sample was collected, because a large but concentrated sample can still mislead. The panels do not disclose the geography of the postings, and RoleMath holds no collection window narrower than the month.
Turn the signal into a plan
Match qualifying evidence to a cited role and a curated preparation route. Occupation pay and outlook remain BLS/O*NET context, never a certification salary, and recommendations are not influenced by payment.