Which technology skills are employers actually hiring for? These are the most in-demand technologies in IT job advertisements in Finland, Sweden, Germany and the United Kingdom from 1 January 2026 to 22 October 2026.
The order comes from the weighted job-market popularity tracked by Queast, East’s IT buying-intelligence service.
DevOps is a set of practices that combines software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops).
Azure is Microsoft's cloud computing platform, offering a wide range of services including computing, analytics, storage, and networking.
SQL is a standard language for storing, manipulating, and retrieving data in databases.
AWS is a cloud-services platform that provides on-demand computing, storage, databases, and application services over the internet.
AI, or Artificial Intelligence, refers to the simulation of human intelligence in machines.
Python is a high-level, interpreted programming language known for its readability and support for multiple programming paradigms.
ERP stands for Enterprise Resource Planning, a type of software that organizations use to manage day-to-day business activities.
Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration platform for automating deployment, scaling, and operations of application containers.
JavaScript is a high-level, dynamic programming language that is one of the core technologies of the web.
Linux is a free and open-source operating system kernel used worldwide on various computing platforms.
Java is a high-level, class-based, object-oriented programming language that is designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible.
SAP is a software company that develops enterprise applications for managing business processes and integrating business functions.
Cybersecurity involves protecting computer systems and networks from theft, damage, or unauthorized access.
Docker is a platform for developing, shipping, and running applications inside containers.
Machine Learning is a field of artificial intelligence that enables computers to learn from data and improve from experience.
TypeScript is a strongly typed programming language that builds on JavaScript, giving you better tooling at any scale.
CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management, a technology for managing a company's relationships and interactions with customers and potential customers.
Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code software tool that enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure.
BI, or Business Intelligence, refers to technologies, applications, and practices for the collection, integration, analysis, and presentation of business information.
Mobile technology refers to the hardware and software enabling smartphones and tablets to operate.
PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that uses and extends SQL.
Power BI is a business analytics service by Microsoft that provides interactive visualizations and business intelligence capabilities.
A Content Management System (CMS) is software that helps users create, manage, and modify content on a website without the need for specialized technical knowledge.
Jira is a project management tool designed for issue and bug tracking in software development.
React is a JavaScript library for building web and native user interfaces from components.
Android is an open-source operating system for mobile devices.
Microsoft Windows is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families, all of which are developed and marketed by Microsoft.
C is a general-purpose, procedural computer programming language.
Google Cloud Platform is a suite of cloud computing services that runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its end-user products.
GitLab is a web-based DevOps lifecycle tool that provides a Git-repository manager with wiki, issue-tracking, and CI/CD pipeline features.
Ansible is an open-source automation tool for software provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment.
C# is a modern, object-oriented programming language developed by Microsoft.
Salesforce is a cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) platform.
.NET is a free, cross-platform, open source developer platform for building many different types of applications.
Qlik is a leading platform for end-to-end data integration and analytics.
Jenkins is an open-source automation server that enables developers to build, test, and deploy software.
Databricks is a data platform that uses a lakehouse architecture to support analytics, data engineering, and machine-learning workloads.
Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform capable of handling trillions of events a day.
ETL stands for Extract, Transform, Load - a process used in database usage and data warehousing.
Spring Boot is an open source Java-based framework used to create a micro Service.
Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability that allows you to visualize and query data.
Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.
iOS is the mobile operating system created by Apple Inc. for its iPhone and iPod Touch devices.
Kotlin is a statically typed programming language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine and can also be compiled to JavaScript source code.
GitHub Actions is GitHub's automation platform for CI/CD and workflow orchestration defined as YAML in repositories.
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development.
Quality Assurance (QA) refers to the systematic process of verifying whether a product or service meets specified requirements.
MySQL is an open-source relational database management system.
Network security encompasses the policies, practices, and tools designed to protect data and infrastructure of computer networks.
NoSQL databases provide a mechanism for storage and retrieval of data that is modeled in means other than the tabular relations used in relational databases.
Embedded technology refers to the integration of hardware and software designed to perform a dedicated function.
Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit.
SharePoint is a web-based collaborative platform that integrates with Microsoft Office.
SAP S/4HANA is SAP's next-generation ERP suite designed for real-time business processes on the SAP HANA in-memory database.
ServiceNow is a cloud-based workflow automation platform that enables enterprise service management.
Anthropic's coding agent for understanding and changing software projects through a terminal, IDE, desktop app, or browser.
MATLAB is a high-level language and interactive environment for numerical computation, visualization, and programming.
C++ is a high-performance programming language that enables low-level memory manipulation.
PyTorch is an open-source machine learning library based on the Torch library.
Cisco is a global leader in networking and cybersecurity solutions.
R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics.
Tableau is a data visualization tool used for converting raw data into an understandable format.
TCP/IP is the foundational protocol suite for the internet, enabling communication between diverse computer systems.
Angular is a platform and framework for building single-page client applications using HTML and TypeScript.
eCommerce refers to the buying and selling of goods or services using the internet.
Vue.js is a progressive JavaScript framework for building user interfaces.
Figma is a cloud-based design tool that enables multiple users to collaborate in real-time on interface or graphic design projects.
MongoDB is a NoSQL database that provides high performance, high availability, and easy scalability.
GraphQL is a query language for APIs and a runtime for executing those queries with your existing data.
dbt (data build tool) is a command-line tool that enables data analysts and engineers to transform data in their warehouse more effectively.
Next.js is an open-source React front-end development web framework.
OpenShift is a family of containerization software developed by Red Hat.
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance.
Spring is a powerful Java framework for building web applications.
TensorFlow is an open-source machine learning framework developed by Google.
Apache Spark is a unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing.
Deep learning is a subset of machine learning in artificial intelligence that has networks capable of learning unsupervised from data that is unstructured or unlabeled.
Unix is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix.
Apache Airflow is an open-source workflow management platform for data engineering pipelines.
BigQuery is a fully-managed, serverless data warehouse that enables scalable analysis over petabytes of data.
Redis is an in-memory data structure store used as a database, cache, and message broker.
FastAPI is a modern, fast web framework for building APIs with Python based on standard Python type hints.
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Golang, or Go, is a statically typed, compiled programming language designed at Google.
Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes that simplifies deployment and management of applications.
Splunk is a software platform for searching, analyzing, and visualizing machine-generated data.
Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine capable of addressing a growing number of use cases.
Scala is a high-level programming language that combines functional and object-oriented programming concepts.
MacOS is the operating system that powers every Mac computer, designed for ease of use and seamless integration with Apple's ecosystem.
The most requested skills are the hardest to hire locally. East’s network of vetted Eastern European IT companies has experts in these technologies, shortlisted and screened for your needs.
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Discover Queast →The list is the ranking of the 100 most popular technologies in IT job advertisements published by technologies.quea.st, where the live ranking is also available attechnologies.quea.st/popularity.
Ranking methodology: Active published technologies, including parents and leaves, ranked by distinct, non-hidden Queast job advertisements mentioning each technology in the period from January 1, 2026 through the stated end date across Finland, Sweden, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Each ad counts once per technology across these markets. Ties use canonical ID order. Absolute match counts are not disclosed. This measures observed job-ad demand, not adoption or market share.
Countries covered, largest job-ad intake first: Finland, Sweden, Germany and the United Kingdom. Period: 1 January 2026 – 22 October 2026. For the top 5, we also show the available experts in East’s partner network. See themethodology and theJSON API. Taxonomy release 2026.10.7; last updated 22 October 2026.
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