The most in-demand skills for remote dev jobs: salary by skill, demand trends, and the skills they pair with.
Updated 3 hours ago
| Skill | Jobs | Median salary | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineer | 408 | $137K | High confidence |
| AI/ML | 237 | $148K | High confidence |
| Software | 234 | $141K | High confidence |
| Developer | 228 | $119K | High confidence |
| Data | 202 | $132K | High confidence |
| Senior | 172 | $141K | High confidence |
| Platform | 139 | $138K | High confidence |
| Python | 134 | $127K | High confidence |
| Technology | 122 | $130K | High confidence |
| Join | 118 | $136K | High confidence |
| Java | 116 | $121K | High confidence |
| Data Engineering | 116 | $127K | High confidence |
| Full-Stack Development | 113 | $120K | High confidence |
| Softwareentwicklung | 111 | $159K | High confidence |
| AWS | 109 | $135K | High confidence |
| DevOps | 99 | $122K | Medium confidence |
| React | 98 | $132K | Medium confidence |
| API Development | 96 | $120K | Medium confidence |
| SQL | 80 | $109K | Medium confidence |
| Enterprise | 61 | $130K | Medium confidence |
| JavaScript | 60 | $120K | Medium confidence |
| People | 58 | $162K | Medium confidence |
| Kubernetes | 55 | $131K | Medium confidence |
| Finance | 53 | $159K | Medium confidence |
| Data Analysis | 53 | $149K | Medium confidence |
| TypeScript | 53 | $116K | Medium confidence |
| Lead | 52 | $131K | Medium confidence |
| Consulting | 50 | $125K | Medium confidence |
| CI/CD | 47 | $122K | Medium confidence |
| Product | 44 | $141K | Medium confidence |
| Microservices | 41 | $125K | Medium confidence |
| GitHub | 38 | $134K | Medium confidence |
| DevOps Engineering | 38 | $118K | Medium confidence |
| Docker | 37 | $135K | Medium confidence |
| Site Reliability Engineering | 37 | $131K | Medium confidence |
| Digital Content | 36 | $110K | Medium confidence |
| REST APIs | 36 | $115K | Medium confidence |
| Web Applications | 34 | $106K | Medium confidence |
| Phyton | 34 | $122K | Medium confidence |
| Spring | 33 | $116K | Medium confidence |
| Tech | 32 | $135K | Medium confidence |
| .NET | 31 | $113K | Medium confidence |
| Node.js | 30 | $145K | Medium confidence |
| Git | 30 | $126K | Medium confidence |
| Products | 30 | $122K | Medium confidence |
| Frontend Development | 28 | $127K | Low confidence |
| Backend Development | 28 | $116K | Low confidence |
| SaaS | 25 | $130K | Low confidence |
| Sales | 25 | $135K | Low confidence |
| Beratung | 25 | $128K | Low confidence |
| CSS | 24 | $101K | Low confidence |
| Code | 24 | $119K | Low confidence |
| Terraform | 23 | $131K | Low confidence |
| IT Security | 23 | $138K | Low confidence |
| PHP | 23 | - | Low confidence |
| Troubleshooting | 21 | $126K | Low confidence |
| Distributed Systems | 21 | $162K | Low confidence |
| PostgreSQL | 21 | $115K | Low confidence |
| Machine Learning | 19 | $162K | Low confidence |
| Business Operations | 18 | $125K | Low confidence |
| Databricks | 18 | - | Low confidence |
| Angular | 18 | $114K | Low confidence |
| React Native | 18 | $145K | Low confidence |
| UI/UX | 17 | $202K | Low confidence |
| Ownership | 17 | $128K | Low confidence |
| HTML | 17 | $86K | Low confidence |
| AI Agents | 16 | $182K | Low confidence |
| Marketing | 16 | $112K | Low confidence |
| Cloud Engineer | 15 | $135K | Low confidence |
| Product Management | 15 | $184K | Low confidence |
| Artificial Intelligence | 14 | $127K | Low confidence |
| Regulatory & Compliance | 13 | $125K | Low confidence |
| Jobs | 13 | - | Low confidence |
| Data Science | 13 | - | Low confidence |
| Cloud Computing | 13 | $140K | Low confidence |
| System Architecture | 12 | $156K | Low confidence |
| Engineering - Site Reliability | 12 | $110K | Low confidence |
| AI Engineering | 12 | $155K | Low confidence |
| Go | 12 | $146K | Low confidence |
| Engineering Management | 11 | $213K | Low confidence |
| Laravel | 11 | - | Low confidence |
| Cloud Engineering | 11 | $135K | Low confidence |
| Spreadsheets | 11 | - | Low confidence |
| Data Products | 11 | $149K | Low confidence |
| Service | 10 | $122K | Low confidence |
| Ruby on Rails | 10 | $165K | Low confidence |
| Server | 10 | $109K | Low confidence |
| Revenue | 10 | $118K | Low confidence |
| Governance | 10 | $185K | Low confidence |
| Security Engineering | 10 | $137K | Low confidence |
| Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) | 9 | $120K | Low confidence |
| Datadog | 9 | - | Low confidence |
| Central | 9 | $136K | Low confidence |
| B2B | 9 | $130K | Low confidence |
| Testing | 9 | - | Low confidence |
| Standards | 9 | $119K | Low confidence |
| MySQL | 9 | $115K | Low confidence |
| Prototyping | 9 | $184K | Low confidence |
| Embedded Systems | 8 | $127K | Low confidence |
| Next.js | 8 | - | Low confidence |
Cite this data
Skills Overview. Dev Remotely. https://devremotely.com/stats/skills
Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Statistics derived from aggregated public job postings.