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
Platform Engineer
229 open jobs·175 employers
10 markets are one step away
These are the 10 careers with the highest skill overlap with Platform 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 Infrastructure Engineer requires the fewest new skills.
Skill transition
How much each market's required skills differ from your
current role.
- Very close7
- Close3
Larger circles = more open jobs, from 114 to 7,054 here.
TapSelect a market to put it at the center.
Infrastructure Engineer
from Platform Engineer
Excellent match
Very close
Among the 7 closest moves from Platform Engineer. No new skills to learn here. The difference is depth, not breadth: Infrastructure Engineer postings want more of what you already do.
144
openings in Infrastructure Engineer
6
skills you already have
0
skills to learn
1
skills to strengthen
You already have
Platform EngineerInfrastructure Engineershare of postingsterraform
67%53%
kubernetes
62%47%
reliability engineering
31%19%
ansible
22%18%
grafana
17%18%
github actions
20%12%
You'll need to learn
Nothing new: every skill Infrastructure Engineer asks for is already among Platform Engineer's.
Strengthen what you have
- grafana17% → 18%
How much work is out there
Platform Engineer229Infrastructure Engineer144Smaller than the market you're in, but 6 of the skills it asks for are ones you already have.
What to do next
1 · Strengthen
grafana
17% of Platform Engineer postings ask for it, against 18% of Infrastructure Engineer.
2 · Look at the work
144 Infrastructure Engineer postings
Observed active in this snapshot.
229 Platform 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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