DATA FROM ROLIVA JOB LISTINGS

Most-mentioned skills in Engineering manager job listings — October 2026

Based on 126 current engineering manager listings from 17 employers, counted on 4 October 2026.

At a glance

Listings counted126open in the last 30 days
Employers17careers pages read by ROLIVA
Countries17stated by employers
As of4 October 2026recounted daily

Java is the most-mentioned skill: 52% of these listings (65 of 126) mention it.

Most-mentioned skills

Share of 126 engineering manager listings that mention each skill, October 2026 (as of 4 October 2026)
RankSkillListingsShare
1Java65 of 12652%
2Stakeholder management47 of 12637%
3AWS32 of 12625%
4Kubernetes21 of 12617%
5Agile17 of 12613%
6Python17 of 12613%
7Azure13 of 12610%
8Docker13 of 12610%
9PostgreSQL11 of 1269%
10React11 of 1269%
11LLM10 of 1268%
12GCP9 of 1267%
13Kafka9 of 1267%
14SQL9 of 1267%
15TypeScript9 of 1267%
16A/B testing8 of 1266%
17Machine learning8 of 1266%
18Figma6 of 1265%
19GraphQL6 of 1265%
20Jira6 of 1265%
21Kotlin6 of 1265%
22Node.js6 of 1265%
23Terraform5 of 1264%
24JavaScript4 of 1263%
25Swift4 of 1263%

Top 25 of the 37 tracked terms that appear in at least one listing. 13 tracked terms appear in none of these listings. No earlier month is stored yet, so there is no change column.

Where these listings are

Country stated in the employer’s structured posting data
CountryListingsShare
United States4032%
India1713%
United Kingdom119%
Spain65%
Kenya65%
Poland65%
Portugal65%
South Africa65%
Nigeria54%
Pakistan54%
Canada22%
Mexico22%
Ukraine22%
Brazil10.8%
Colombia10.8%
Latvia10.8%
Sweden10.8%

8 listings state no country in structured data. 59 listings are remote as stated by the employer.

Method

Source: job listings on ROLIVA, which are read from employers’ own careers pages. Only listings confirmed open in the 30 days before the count are included. A listing belongs to this role when its job title matches the same fixed title patterns used for the engineering manager jobs page.

How skills were detected: each listing’s description (up to the first 20,000 characters) and any skills the employer lists in structured posting data are matched against a fixed list of 50 skill and tool terms, on whole words. Excel, React, Swift, Spark, Agile are also ordinary English words, so they are counted only in their capitalised product form. A listing counts once per term, however often it repeats it. A mention is not necessarily a requirement, and skills outside the list are not counted.

Timing: the count is repeated daily and this page shows the latest one; the figure kept for each month is the last count taken in that month. Month-to-month changes compare the share of listings, not raw counts, because the number of listings changes.

Limits: these are ROLIVA’s listings only — the employers whose careers pages ROLIVA reads, weighted towards the countries shown above — not the whole job market.

Terms tracked: SQL, Python, Excel, Tableau, Power BI, Looker, dbt, Snowflake, BigQuery, Jira, Confluence, Figma, Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, Java, Kotlin, Swift, C++, Rust, Scala, Spark, Airflow, Kafka, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Machine learning, A/B testing, Agile, Scrum, Stakeholder management, User research, Process mapping, BPMN, UML, Roadmapping, PyTorch, TensorFlow, LLM, Go-to-market.

How to cite

ROLIVA, “Most-mentioned skills in Engineering manager job listings — October 2026”, https://rolivajobs.com/insights/skills/engineering-manager (data as of 4 October 2026).

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