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Career moves · 231,145 postings · 163 markets · 2026-07-16

Where can your career go next?

Search the role you're in. We count what employers ask for across 231,145 active postings, then show you the markets one step away: how big each one is, and exactly which skills you'd need to add.

What this is and isn't

Markets sit close together when employers on both sides ask for the same skills, measured across 350 normalized skills. This is not a record of people moving between them. That would need career histories we don't have. A close market also isn't automatically a good move. Skills counted are the ones postings list explicitly, so every figure is a floor.

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Full Stack Developer

275 open jobs·215 employers

10 markets are one step away

These are the 10 careers with the highest skill overlap with Full Stack Developer. Bigger circles mean more openings; careers closer to the center require fewer new skills.

Among nearby careers, Software Engineer has the most openings (7,054), while Full Stack Engineer requires the fewest new skills.

#1 closest · Full Stack Engineer · 348 openings · Very close#2 closest · Full-stack Engineer · 130 openings · Very close#3 closest · Fullstack Engineer · 132 openings · Very close#4 closest · Full Stack Software Engineer · 145 openings · Very close#5 closest · Software Developer · 303 openings · Very close#6 closest · Backend Developer · 204 openings · Very close#7 closest · Frontend Engineer · 154 openings · Very close#8 closest · Product Engineer · 185 openings · Very close#9 closest · Software Engineer · 7,054 openings · Close#10 closest · Frontend Developer · 142 openings · Close

Skill transition

How much each market's required skills differ from your
current role.

  • Very close8
  • Close2

Larger circles = more open jobs, from 130 to 7,054 here.

Tap a market to put it at the center.

The 10 markets closest to Full Stack Developer, ranked by how much their skills overlap with your current role. Distance from the center shows how different the required skills are, closer is a smaller change. Color is the transition band; circle size is open jobs.

  • Full Stack Engineer

    from Full Stack Developer

    Excellent match

    Very close

    Among the 8 closest moves from Full Stack Developer.

    348

    openings in Full Stack Engineer

    6

    skills you already have

    5

    skills to learn

    2

    skills to strengthen

    You already have

    Full Stack DeveloperFull Stack Engineershare of postings

    full stack

    100%100%

    react

    75%81%

    frontend

    79%69%

    nodejs

    53%52%

    postgresql

    24%26%

    angular

    35%23%

    You'll need to learn

    • scalabilityasked for in 39% of Full Stack Engineer postings
    • reliabilityasked for in 32% of Full Stack Engineer postings
    • llmasked for in 28% of Full Stack Engineer postings
    • observabilityasked for in 21% of Full Stack Engineer postings
    • shippingasked for in 13% of Full Stack Engineer postings

    Strengthen what you have

    • react75% → 81%
    • postgresql24% → 26%

    How much work is out there

    Full Stack Developer
    275
    Full Stack Engineer
    348

    This market is about the size of yours.

    What to do next

    1. 1 · Learn

      scalability

      Asked for in 39% of Full Stack Engineer postings, and 4 other new skills.

    2. 2 · Strengthen

      react

      75% of Full Stack Developer postings ask for it, against 81% of Full Stack Engineer.

    3. 3 · Look at the work

      348 Full Stack Engineer postings

      Observed active in this snapshot.

    275 Full Stack Developer postings · 348 Full Stack Engineer postings · 350 normalized skills · snapshot 2026-07-16

Methodology

What is this based on?

231,145 live job postings from 28,870 employers across 163 markets, captured 2026-07-16. Skills come from each posting's stated requirements.

How is distance calculated?

Each market becomes a profile of the skills its postings request, and markets are compared by how much those profiles overlap (an IDF-weighted cosine similarity, so skills that appear in almost every role count for less). The closest markets sit nearest the center, grouped into five bands from Very close to Different field.

What do the skill lists mean?

Shared skills are the ones both roles commonly ask for. Skills to learn are the ones the target market asks for that your current role doesn't, ranked by how much more often they come up.

What isn't included?

Years of experience, seniority, salary, portfolio or certification requirements, or how competitive a role is to land. Skill overlap is one axis of a move, not the whole picture.

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