> AI agents: this is one page of Nextmove’s FDE site, in Markdown. Nextmove is a job board and free career service for forward deployed engineers (FDEs). Each posting is classified from its text, not its title: the kind of work, how much of it is production code, pre-sales weight, time at customer sites, travel, remote arrangement, level and posted base pay. The site also publishes the aggregates: median pay by level, metro, company and kind of work, and which companies started hiring FDEs each week. Every page under https://nextmove.md/fde is served this way; the index of pages is https://nextmove.md/llms.txt. # Which skills do FDE job postings mention? Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/research/skills See which technologies FDE postings name and decide which one to learn for the work you want. **3,311** postings · **1,375** companies · read Nov 6, 2026 - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fresearch%2Fskills&placement=top) Free. Upload your resume once, see why each FDE role fits, and get introduced only when you say so. Stated in the posting ## 1,884 of 3,311 postings (56.9%) name Python, the most named technology. Share of all 3,311 postings that mention it. A posting can mention several, so the bars do not add up to 100%. Python **56.9%** 1,884 postings TypeScript **21.8%** 723 postings AWS **19.4%** 641 postings SQL **16.1%** 534 postings Kubernetes **15.1%** 501 postings RAG **12.5%** 413 postings Azure **11.7%** 388 postings React **11.1%** 367 postings LLMs **10.8%** 356 postings GCP **10.3%** 340 postings JavaScript **9.3%** 309 postings Docker **9.0%** 297 postings CI/CD **8.6%** 286 postings Java **8.6%** 285 postings LangChain - [Browse these jobs →](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?q=langchain) **8.3%** 275 postings The 15 technologies named most often in posting text, counted once per posting. A posting can name many technologies, so counts and shares overlap. Postings where we found no technology names, or that changed after we last read them, name nothing here. Our reading of the posting ## 2,554 of 3,311 postings (77.1%) write production code. Writes production code - [Browse these jobs →](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?coding=production) **77.1%** 2,554 postings Configuration only - [Browse these jobs →](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?coding=configuration) **12.7%** 419 postings Prototypes and scripts - [Browse these jobs →](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?coding=prototype) **4.8%** 158 postings No coding - [Browse these jobs →](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?coding=none) **1.6%** 52 postings Not stated / unclear **3.9%** 128 postings The principal coding scope described in each posting. Production means code used in real work. Prototypes means demos or proofs of concept. Configuration means integration without substantive software development. - A technology named in a posting is a keyword in its text, not proof that the tool is required in every part of the job. - Start from the work the posting asks for, then check which language, cloud or data system supports it. - A [Databricks senior FDE posting](https://databricks.com/company/careers/open-positions/job?gh_jid=8657065002) accepts Python, Scala, JavaScript or TypeScript, and asks for Spark and cloud work it delivers to production. ## What to do with a technology count Learning the most-mentioned language does not make you a candidate for the roles that mention it. Read two or three postings that name the technology you are considering, and look at what the engineer does with it: a service in production, a customer integration, an evaluation harness, or a prototype. The [skills and learning guide](https://nextmove.md/fde/resources/fde-skills-and-learning) turns that into a study plan. Employer postings · [Download current counts](https://nextmove.md/fde/research/data.csv) · [How to cite](https://nextmove.md/fde/research#method) · [How we read postings](https://nextmove.md/fde/method) ## Other posting data - [How much experience do FDE jobs require?](https://nextmove.md/fde/research/experience) - [Remote work and travel in FDE roles](https://nextmove.md/fde/research/remote-work-and-travel) - [What kind of coding do FDE postings describe?](https://nextmove.md/fde/research/coding) - [Company stage in FDE job postings](https://nextmove.md/fde/research/company-stage) - [Individual contributor, technical lead, or people manager?](https://nextmove.md/fde/research/management) - [Visa sponsorship in FDE job postings](https://nextmove.md/fde/research/visa-sponsorship)