What 100,000 open jobs ask for
Since June, Rezifi has collected over 330,000 job postings from 1,025 companies. This report studies the 102,679 that are live today. They were posted on the careers sites of 969 employers in 149 countries, and Rezifi counted the skills, the years of experience and the pay each one asks for, on 8 November 2026.
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Key findings
Six things open jobs are saying
Each line is a count of the open jobs Rezifi read in November 2026, and each one stands on its own: quote any of them with a link to this page.
102,679
open jobs read
969
employers
149
countries
8 Nov
the day counted, 2026
Skills
The skills open jobs ask for most
A job counts a skill once, whether it names it once or five times. Python leads by a wide margin: 14% of open jobs ask for it, against 9% for Microsoft Excel, the next.
AI
AI is in 19% of jobs, not just engineering
An AI skill is any skill about building, using or governing AI, from machine learning and large language models to tools named by brand. 19% of open jobs name at least one. In engineering it is 34%; in every other kind of job, 14%.
AI is often a nice to have rather than a must: 34% of the jobs that name an AI skill list it only as nice to have.
Employers now name AI tools by brand. Claude comes up in 1,310 open jobs from 365 employers.
19%
name an AI skill
12%
require one
34%
of engineering jobs
14%
of all other jobs
Required or nice to have
What jobs require, and what would help
A job names a median of 6 skills, and 67% of the skills named are required. The rest are nice to have: a reason to apply without them, not a reason to skip the job.
When a job asks for them, the skills it most often requires are Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint and Java. The ones most often listed only as nice to have are Generative AI, Power BI and AI Agents.
Experience
How many years jobs ask for
69% of open jobs state a minimum number of years. Among those, the median asked is 5 years. A job counts only when the posting states the number; nothing is guessed.
36% of entry-level jobs state a minimum. Of those, 79% ask for at least a year and 6% for 2 years or more.
Pay
Who says what a job pays
Whether a posting states the pay depends mostly on where the job is. Several US states require a pay range in a job posting, and 68% of US jobs give one. On India's careers sites, 83 of 27,654 open jobs do.
India and the US
India and the US, side by side
India and the US hold 69% of the jobs counted. Postings on India's careers sites name an AI skill less often (14% against 20%) and are far less often remote (1% against 16%).
India role by role, counted the same way: 7 skill pages.
By role
What each kind of job asks for
Rezifi files each job under one role family. Every family here has at least 300 open jobs from 20 employers or more, none of them posting over a third of the family's jobs.
For India, every skill each role asks for, one page a role: software engineer, product manager, quality assurance engineer, data engineer and 3 more.
Sales
11,699 jobs · Artificial Intelligence 10%, Salesforce 10%, Customer service 9% · AI in 14%
Program and project management
6,096 jobs · Project Management 31%, Project Management Professional (PMP) 14%, Artificial Intelligence 11% · AI in 18%
Backend engineering
4,303 jobs · Java 36%, Python 33%, Distributed computing 20% · AI in 26%
Machine learning and AI engineering
4,132 jobs · Python 68%, Machine learning 31%, Large Language Models 23% · AI in 86%
Data engineering and science
3,485 jobs · SQL 60%, Python 51%, Databricks 21% · AI in 27%
Finance
2,928 jobs · Microsoft Excel 37%, Microsoft PowerPoint 14%, SQL 13% · AI in 12%
Security engineering
2,880 jobs · Python 26%, CISSP 20%, Amazon Web Services 18% · AI in 23%
Product management
2,716 jobs · Product management 37%, Artificial Intelligence 17%, Product Strategy 13% · AI in 35%
DevOps and infrastructure
2,570 jobs · Python 43%, Kubernetes 40%, Terraform 33% · AI in 22%
Legal
2,398 jobs · Risk management 11%, Microsoft Excel 10%, Artificial Intelligence 9% · AI in 16%
Marketing
2,206 jobs · Marketing 14%, Artificial Intelligence 13%, Product Marketing 13% · AI in 21%
Full-stack engineering
1,697 jobs · React 56%, Java 37%, TypeScript 37% · AI in 36%
HR
1,643 jobs · Microsoft Excel 24%, Workday 16%, HRIS 12% · AI in 14%
Engineering management
1,552 jobs · Python 22%, Distributed computing 17%, Java 16% · AI in 37%
Site reliability engineering
1,380 jobs · Python 38%, Kubernetes 26%, Amazon Web Services 21% · AI in 12%
Healthcare
1,306 jobs · Medical Affairs 11%, Microsoft Excel 8%, Microsoft Word 6% · AI in 2%
Design
1,008 jobs · Figma 40%, Design Systems 20%, UX 13% · AI in 26%
Recruiting
719 jobs · Greenhouse 15%, Artificial Intelligence 13%, Candidate Experience 12% · AI in 17%
How we counted
How Rezifi counted these jobs
Every figure on this page is a count of the 102,679 open jobs, or a share of them. The data file holds every count.
To cite: Rezifi, "What 100,000 open jobs ask for, November 2026", rezifi.com/reports/what-open-jobs-ask-for-november-2026, counted 8 November 2026.
The data is licensed CC BY 4.0: share and adapt it for any purpose, with credit to Rezifi and a link to this page.
Open jobs only
A job counts when it was posted in the last 60 days and was still live on the employer's site in the last 3. Only postings published for anyone to read count.
Employers' own sites
Every job comes from an employer's own careers site. Job boards that list other companies' postings are left out.
One posting, one job
A job posted on several sites counts once.
Not the 200,000+ on Rezifi's site
Rezifi's site says 200,000+ open jobs because it counts every open listing Rezifi holds worldwide, including links from job boards; this report counts only postings on employers' own careers sites, posted in the last 60 days and seen live in the last 3, each posting once.
Skills from the posting itself
Rezifi's AI reads each posting for the skills it asks for and marks which are required and which are nice to have. Each skill is matched to one name in Rezifi's skills list, so two spellings of one tool count as one.
Checked against the posting's words
A skill is printed only when the posting's own words name it in at least 60% of the jobs counted for it, so a skill the AI inferred is left out (REST APIs and Statistics, this month).
Seen across employers
A skill is printed only when at least 10 employers ask for it and no one of them posts more than a third of those jobs, so no line describes one company's hiring. A role family needs 20 employers.
Years and pay only when stated
A minimum number of years counts only when the posting states it, and Rezifi keeps the posting's own words for it. Pay counts when the posting or the employer's system gives a figure. Nothing is guessed.
The level, read a new way
Since October's report, Rezifi changed how it reads a posting's level. So the level figures here, and the years each level asks for, are this month's figures, not a trend against October's.
Pay counted more fully
Since October's report, Rezifi also reads a pay figure written only in a posting's text, and it removed figures it had stored wrong. So pay shares here are not a trend against October's: more postings count as stating pay for a reason that is not the market.
These employers, not every job
The 969 employers are the ones whose careers sites Rezifi reads for its job feed, many of them technology companies: 25% of the jobs are engineering roles. The figures describe these jobs, not every job in a country.
AI skills, named
An AI skill is one of 68 skill names about building, using or governing AI. The data file lists every one.
Every figure is a count
A share is the jobs with a feature divided by the jobs counted, rounded to a whole percent, or to one decimal under 1%.
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FAQ
The report: common questions
What skills are employers asking for most in 2026?
In 102,679 open jobs counted on employers' careers sites on 8 November 2026, the most-asked skills were Python (14%), Microsoft Excel (9%), Artificial Intelligence (9%), SQL (7%), Project Management (6%). Java leads in backend engineering jobs, SQL in data jobs, Python in machine learning jobs and Microsoft Excel in finance.
How many job postings ask for AI skills?
19% of open jobs name at least one AI skill and 12% require one. In engineering jobs it is 34%, in all other jobs 14%. Product management jobs name AI in 35% of cases.
Which AI tools do job postings mention?
Counted by brand: Claude in 1,310 jobs, OpenAI API in 887 jobs, GitHub Copilot in 835 jobs, LangChain in 667 jobs, LangGraph in 513 jobs, Microsoft Copilot in 505 jobs. Each was named by at least 10 employers.
Do job postings say how much they pay?
It depends on the country. On employers' careers sites, 68% of US jobs state the pay, against 0.3% of jobs on India's careers sites (83 of 27,654).
How many years of experience do entry-level jobs ask for?
36% of entry-level jobs state a minimum. Of those, the median is 1 year, 79% ask for at least a year and 6% for 2 years or more. Across all open jobs that state a minimum, the median is 5 years.
Where does this data come from?
Since June 2026, Rezifi has collected over 330,000 job postings from 1,025 companies' own careers sites. This report studies the 102,679 that were live on 8 November 2026: posted in the last 60 days and still live in the last 3, each posting counted once. Job boards that list other companies' postings are left out. Every count is in the data file on this page.
Can I use this data?
Yes. The data is licensed CC BY 4.0: share and adapt it for any purpose, with credit to Rezifi and a link to this page. The data file on this page holds every count behind every figure.
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