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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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Solutions Engineer

428 open jobs·202 employers

10 markets are one step away

These are the 10 careers with the highest skill overlap with Solutions 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 Sales Engineer requires the fewest new skills.

Skill transition

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

  • Very close4
  • Close6

Larger circles = more open jobs, from 121 to 7,054 here.

Tap a market to put it at the center.

The 10 markets closest to Solutions Engineer, 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.
  • Sales Engineer

    from Solutions Engineer

    Excellent match

    Very close

    Among the 4 closest moves from Solutions Engineer.

    342

    openings in Sales Engineer

    6

    skills you already have

    3

    skills to learn

    4

    skills to strengthen

    You already have

    Solutions EngineerSales Engineershare of postings

    technical sales

    35%68%

    consultative selling

    34%31%

    enterprise sales

    15%26%

    value proposition

    15%17%

    presentation skills

    15%17%

    thought leadership

    9%8%

    You'll need to learn

    • networkingasked for in 42% of Sales Engineer postings
    • pipeline managementasked for in 27% of Sales Engineer postings
    • sales enablementasked for in 13% of Sales Engineer postings

    Strengthen what you have

    • technical sales35% → 68%
    • enterprise sales15% → 26%
    • value proposition15% → 17%
    • presentation skills15% → 17%

    How much work is out there

    Solutions Engineer
    428
    Sales Engineer
    342

    This 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. 1 · Learn

      networking

      Asked for in 42% of Sales Engineer postings, and 2 other new skills.

    2. 2 · Strengthen

      technical sales

      35% of Solutions Engineer postings ask for it, against 68% of Sales Engineer.

    3. 3 · Look at the work

      342 Sales Engineer postings

      Observed active in this snapshot.

    428 Solutions Engineer postings · 342 Sales 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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