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.
You are here
Lead Software Engineer
128 open jobs·7 employers
10 markets are one step away
These are the 10 careers with the highest skill overlap with Lead Software Engineer. 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 Software Developer requires the fewest new skills.
Skill transition
How much each market's required skills differ from your
current role.
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Larger circles = more open jobs, from 114 to 7,054 here.
TapSelect a market to put it at the center.
Software Developer
from Lead Software Engineer
Strong match
Close
Among the 10 closest moves from Lead Software Engineer.
303
openings in Software Developer
6
skills you already have
6
skills to learn
2
skills to strengthen
You already have
Lead Software EngineerSoftware Developershare of postingsfull stack
27%41%
java
53%28%
typescript
20%21%
microservices
23%13%
html
14%11%
nosql
20%9%
You'll need to learn
- frontendasked for in 30% of Software Developer postings
- gitasked for in 26% of Software Developer postings
- c#asked for in 23% of Software Developer postings
- ci/cdasked for in 26% of Software Developer postings
- apiasked for in 23% of Software Developer postings
- api designasked for in 23% of Software Developer postings
Strengthen what you have
- full stack27% → 41%
- typescript20% → 21%
How much work is out there
Lead Software Engineer128Software Developer303This market has 2.4x more postings than yours.
What to do next
1 · Learn
frontend
Asked for in 30% of Software Developer postings, and 5 other new skills.
2 · Strengthen
full stack
27% of Lead Software Engineer postings ask for it, against 41% of Software Developer.
3 · Look at the work
303 Software Developer postings
Observed active in this snapshot.
128 Lead Software Engineer postings · 303 Software Developer 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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