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
QA Engineer
250 open jobs·199 employers
10 markets are one step away
These are the 10 careers with the highest skill overlap with QA 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 QA Automation Engineer requires the fewest new skills.
Skill transition
How much each market's required skills differ from your
current role.
- Very close1
- Close5
- Moderate change4
Larger circles = more open jobs, from 104 to 7,054 here.
TapSelect a market to put it at the center.
QA Automation Engineer
from QA Engineer
Excellent match
Very close
The closest move to QA Engineer we can see.
104
openings in QA Automation Engineer
6
skills you already have
3
skills to learn
6
skills to strengthen
You already have
QA EngineerQA Automation Engineershare of postingstest automation
38%88%
quality assurance
51%77%
api
33%65%
regression
33%40%
github actions
8%24%
jenkins
10%19%
You'll need to learn
- devopsasked for in 26% of QA Automation Engineer postings
- api designasked for in 17% of QA Automation Engineer postings
- microservicesasked for in 14% of QA Automation Engineer postings
Strengthen what you have
- quality assurance51% → 77%
- test automation38% → 88%
- api33% → 65%
- regression33% → 40%
- github actions8% → 24%
- jenkins10% → 19%
How much work is out there
QA Engineer250QA Automation Engineer104This market has 2.4x fewer postings than 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
devops
Asked for in 26% of QA Automation Engineer postings, and 2 other new skills.
2 · Strengthen
quality assurance
51% of QA Engineer postings ask for it, against 77% of QA Automation Engineer.
3 · Look at the work
104 QA Automation Engineer postings
Observed active in this snapshot.
250 QA Engineer postings · 104 QA Automation 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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