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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Tech Lead
133 open jobs·56 employers
10 markets are one step away
These are the 10 careers with the highest skill overlap with Tech Lead. Bigger circles mean more openings; careers closer to the center require fewer new skills.
Software Engineer is both the closest move and the biggest opportunity nearby, with 7,054 openings.
Skill transition
How much each market's required skills differ from your
current role.
- Very close5
- Close5
Larger circles = more open jobs, from 130 to 7,054 here.
TapSelect a market to put it at the center.
Software Engineer
from Tech Lead
Excellent match
Very close
Among the 5 closest moves from Tech Lead.
7,054
openings in Software Engineer
6
skills you already have
4
skills to learn
1
skills to strengthen
You already have
Tech LeadSoftware Engineershare of postingsfull stack
36%33%
distributed systems
21%33%
react
40%20%
typescript
20%19%
android
26%7%
ios
8%6%
You'll need to learn
- pythonasked for in 38% of Software Engineer postings
- c++asked for in 20% of Software Engineer postings
- linuxasked for in 9% of Software Engineer postings
- gitasked for in 17% of Software Engineer postings
Strengthen what you have
- distributed systems21% → 33%
How much work is out there
Tech Lead133Software Engineer7,054This market has 53x more postings than yours.
What to do next
1 · Learn
python
Asked for in 38% of Software Engineer postings, and 3 other new skills.
2 · Strengthen
distributed systems
21% of Tech Lead postings ask for it, against 33% of Software Engineer.
3 · Look at the work
7,054 Software Engineer postings
Observed active in this snapshot.
133 Tech Lead postings · 7,054 Software 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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