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
Network Engineer
173 open jobs·103 employers
10 markets are one step away
These are the 10 careers with the highest skill overlap with Network Engineer. Bigger circles mean more openings; careers closer to the center require fewer new skills.
Among nearby careers, Solutions Architect has the most openings (680), while Infrastructure Engineer 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 102 to 680 here.
TapSelect a market to put it at the center.
Infrastructure Engineer
from Network Engineer
Strong match
Close
Among the 10 closest moves from Network Engineer.
144
openings in Infrastructure Engineer
6
skills you already have
6
skills to learn
2
skills to strengthen
You already have
Network EngineerInfrastructure Engineershare of postingsterraform
21%53%
sre
19%31%
high availability
34%26%
ansible
30%18%
capacity planning
12%10%
telemetry
8%8%
You'll need to learn
- kubernetesasked for in 47% of Infrastructure Engineer postings
- devopsasked for in 40% of Infrastructure Engineer postings
- ci/cdasked for in 36% of Infrastructure Engineer postings
- dockerasked for in 26% of Infrastructure Engineer postings
- reliability engineeringasked for in 19% of Infrastructure Engineer postings
- agileasked for in 24% of Infrastructure Engineer postings
Strengthen what you have
- terraform21% → 53%
- sre19% → 31%
How much work is out there
Network Engineer173Infrastructure Engineer144This market is about the size of yours.
Smaller than the market you're in, but 6 of the skills it asks for are ones you already have.
What to do next
1 · Learn
kubernetes
Asked for in 47% of Infrastructure Engineer postings, and 5 other new skills.
2 · Strengthen
terraform
21% of Network Engineer postings ask for it, against 53% of Infrastructure Engineer.
3 · Look at the work
144 Infrastructure Engineer postings
Observed active in this snapshot.
173 Network Engineer postings · 144 Infrastructure 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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