Fields
Where the work is
Each field was mapped the same way: pull every posting from public ATS boards, match by title, parse the full description text, and cluster into archetypes by what the postings actually ask for rather than what they are called.
1,558 roles · 592 JDs parsed
Artificial Intelligence
Seven archetypes across 1,558 postings. The market split into an applied majority and a frontier minority, and most preparation targets the smaller one.
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1,405 roles · 427 JDs parsed
Platform & Developer Experience
Seven archetypes across 1,405 postings. What the field discusses loudest — internal developer platforms, DORA, supply chain — appears in under 5% of postings.
7 ROLES →
1,060 roles · 362 JDs parsed
Cyber, Risk & Internal Audit
Seven archetypes across 1,060 postings. AI appears in 92% of them — but AI-specific risk practice in only 9%. That gap is the opportunity.
7 ROLES →
670 roles · 243 JDs parsed
IT Infrastructure
Network, servers, storage, datacentre and production management. 670 postings — and 26% of them are AI and GPU cluster buildout, which has revived a field people had written off.
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182 roles · 104 JDs parsed
Identity & Privileged Access
Identity appears in 87% of all security postings — the highest of any single topic. Agent identity is becoming a job title in its own right.
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