Which technology skills are employers actually hiring for? These are the most in-demand technologies in IT job advertisements in 35 European countries from 1 January 2026 to 11 November 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.
AI, or Artificial Intelligence, refers to the simulation of human intelligence in machines.
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.
Python is a high-level, interpreted programming language known for its readability and support for multiple programming paradigms.
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.
ERP stands for Enterprise Resource Planning, a type of software that organizations use to manage day-to-day business activities.
Java is a high-level, class-based, object-oriented programming language that is designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible.
Linux is a free and open-source operating system kernel used worldwide on various computing platforms.
Docker is a platform for developing, shipping, and running applications inside containers.
SAP is a software company that develops enterprise applications for managing business processes and integrating business functions.
TypeScript is a strongly typed programming language that builds on JavaScript, giving you better tooling at any scale.
Cybersecurity involves protecting computer systems and networks from theft, damage, or unauthorized access.
Machine Learning is a field of artificial intelligence that enables computers to learn from data and improve from experience.
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.
React is a JavaScript library for building web and native user interfaces from components.
Microsoft Windows is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families, all of which are developed and marketed by Microsoft.
PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that uses and extends SQL.
BI, or Business Intelligence, refers to technologies, applications, and practices for the collection, integration, analysis, and presentation of business information.
Jira is a project management tool designed for issue and bug tracking in software development.
C is a general-purpose, procedural computer programming language.
Power BI is a business analytics service by Microsoft that provides interactive visualizations and business intelligence capabilities.
Mobile technology refers to the hardware and software enabling smartphones and tablets to operate.
C# is a modern, object-oriented programming language developed by Microsoft.
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.
Android is an open-source operating system for mobile devices.
.NET is a free, cross-platform, open source developer platform for building many different types of applications.
GitLab is a web-based DevOps lifecycle tool that provides a Git-repository manager with wiki, issue-tracking, and CI/CD pipeline features.
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.
Ansible is an open-source automation tool for software provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment.
Spring Boot is an open source Java-based framework used to create a micro Service.
ETL stands for Extract, Transform, Load - a process used in database usage and data warehousing.
Jenkins is an open-source automation server that enables developers to build, test, and deploy software.
Salesforce is a cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) platform.
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.
Qlik is a leading platform for end-to-end data integration and analytics.
Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.
Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability that allows you to visualize and query data.
iOS is the mobile operating system created by Apple Inc. for its iPhone and iPod Touch devices.
Embedded technology refers to the integration of hardware and software designed to perform a dedicated function.
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development.
C++ is a high-performance programming language that enables low-level memory manipulation.
R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics.
GitHub Actions is GitHub's automation platform for CI/CD and workflow orchestration defined as YAML in repositories.
MySQL is an open-source relational database management system.
Kotlin is a statically typed programming language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine and can also be compiled to JavaScript source code.
Angular is a platform and framework for building single-page client applications using HTML and TypeScript.
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.
Quality Assurance (QA) refers to the systematic process of verifying whether a product or service meets specified requirements.
SAP S/4HANA is SAP's next-generation ERP suite designed for real-time business processes on the SAP HANA in-memory database.
Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit.
Spring is a powerful Java framework for building web applications.
SharePoint is a web-based collaborative platform that integrates with Microsoft Office.
Anthropic's coding agent for understanding and changing software projects through a terminal, IDE, desktop app, or browser.
Network security encompasses the policies, practices, and tools designed to protect data and infrastructure of computer networks.
ServiceNow is a cloud-based workflow automation platform that enables enterprise service management.
PyTorch is an open-source machine learning library based on the Torch library.
Cisco is a global leader in networking and cybersecurity solutions.
TCP/IP is the foundational protocol suite for the internet, enabling communication between diverse computer systems.
Vue.js is a progressive JavaScript framework for building user interfaces.
MongoDB is a NoSQL database that provides high performance, high availability, and easy scalability.
Tableau is a data visualization tool used for converting raw data into an understandable format.
MATLAB is a high-level language and interactive environment for numerical computation, visualization, and programming.
Figma is a cloud-based design tool that enables multiple users to collaborate in real-time on interface or graphic design projects.
GraphQL is a query language for APIs and a runtime for executing those queries with your existing data.
eCommerce refers to the buying and selling of goods or services using the internet.
OpenShift is a family of containerization software developed by Red Hat.
Next.js is an open-source React front-end development web framework.
dbt (data build tool) is a command-line tool that enables data analysts and engineers to transform data in their warehouse more effectively.
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance.
Apache Airflow is an open-source workflow management platform for data engineering pipelines.
TensorFlow is an open-source machine learning framework developed by Google.
A firewall is a network security device that monitors and filters incoming and outgoing network traffic based on an organization's previously established security policies.
Redis is an in-memory data structure store used as a database, cache, and message broker.
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.
BigQuery is a fully-managed, serverless data warehouse that enables scalable analysis over petabytes of data.
Unix is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix.
FastAPI is a modern, fast web framework for building APIs with Python based on standard Python type hints.
Apache Spark is a unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing.
Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes that simplifies deployment and management of applications.
Golang, or Go, is a statically typed, compiled programming language designed at Google.
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Sass is a preprocessor scripting language that is interpreted or compiled into Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
Go is an open source programming language designed for building simple, fast, and reliable software.
MacOS is the operating system that powers every Mac computer, designed for ease of use and seamless integration with Apple's ecosystem.
HTML/CSS are the backbone of web content presentation, defining the structure and style of web pages.
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.
Find talent →Queast turns the same job-market data into sales signals: companies whose job ads point to work your team can deliver, with the people who decide.
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 from January 1, 2026 through the stated end date, combined across the European markets listed in markets. Each ad counts once per technology. Markets are combined in proportion to Queast's own job-ad intake in each country; no equal-country or market-size weighting is applied. 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: Germany, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland, Spain, Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Switzerland, France, Estonia, Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Bulgaria, Poland, Luxembourg, Denmark, the Czechia, Cyprus, Malta, Greece, Ukraine, Lithuania, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Croatia, Hungary, Latvia, Kosovo, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Iceland and North Macedonia. Period: 1 January 2026 – 11 November 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 11 November 2026.
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