Software Engineer Resume Keywords

Top 20 skills in software engineer job postings

1. 1

   Python
   35% of postings29% as required
2. 2

   Java
   21% of postings18% as required
3. 3

   TypeScript
   20% of postings16% as required
4. 4

   React
   18% of postings14% as required
5. 5

   AWS
   17% of postings14% as required
6. 6

   Kubernetes
   15% of postings11% as required
7. 7

   Go
   13% of postings11% as required
8. 8

   CI/CD
   13% of postings11% as required
9. 9

   C++
   13% of postings11% as required
10. 10

    JavaScript
    12% of postings10% as required
11. 11

    PostgreSQL
    11% of postings9% as required
12. 12

    Docker
    10% of postings7% as required
13. 13

    SQL
    10% of postings8% as required
14. 14

    C#
    9% of postings7% as required
15. 15

    Node.js
    9% of postings7% as required
16. 16

    Distributed systems
    9% of postings8% as required
17. 17

    Git
    9% of postings7% as required
18. 18

    APIs
    6% of postings6% as required
19. 19

    Linux
    6% of postings5% as required
20. 20

    REST APIs
    6% of postings5% as required

Source: public postings from employer career sites collected by LetMeApply. Skills are read from each posting with AI and merged across spellings (for example, AWS and Amazon Web Services). Each employer counts at most 3 times, so one company hiring in bulk does not skew the list.