The technology job market: Spain

Where opportunities appear

Locations follow the advert text. Market sample, physical location and remote eligibility can differ.

• Madrid281
• Barcelona157
• Spain114
• Greater Barcelona Metropolitan Area26
• Málaga24
• Valencia23
• Greater Madrid Metropolitan Area19
• Sant Cugat del Vallès17
• Seville14
• Bilbao11
• Alcobendas8
• Zaragoza8
• Palma8
• San Sebastián6
• Vigo5
• Greater Sevilla Metropolitan Area5
• Pozuelo de Alarcón5
• A Coruña5
• Albacete4
• Getafe4

Work policy

• Hybrid442 49.7%
• On-site210 23.6%
• Remote166 18.7%
• Not specified72 8.1%

Conflicting work-policy evidence accounts for 17 of the unspecified postings.

Where remote work is allowed

Remote within the country · 6 (1.0%)

These postings name a single eligible country. The breakdown below shows the places stated in the adverts.

Shares are among remote and hybrid postings. A posting can name several places. Hybrid roles can also require office attendance.

• Eligibility unstated599 98.5%
• Spain6 1.0%
• Other stated geographic limits2 0.3%
• Europe1 0.2%

A skill means more in context

Selected technologies, with supporting text. A mention is not automatically a requirement. Programming, data work and supporting scripts are counted separately; one advert can mention several skills.

• Azure259 · 29.1%

  Required

  24

  Preferred

  25

  Alternative

  44

  Incidental mention

  1

  Unclassified mention

  165

  Building software

  8

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  8

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering53 Data & AI36 Cloud & infrastructure132 Cybersecurity11 IT support15 Business applications4 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design1 IT leadership & projects5 Other roles1 Unclassified1

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• AWS240 · 27.0%

  Required

  32

  Preferred

  18

  Alternative

  54

  Incidental mention

  7

  Unclassified mention

  129

  Building software

  11

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  8

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering69 Data & AI40 Cloud & infrastructure106 Cybersecurity7 IT support11 Business applications1 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects4 Other roles1 Unclassified1

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Python231 · 26.0%

  Required

  33

  Preferred

  10

  Alternative

  55

  Incidental mention

  1

  Unclassified mention

  132

  Building software

  48

  Supporting scripts

  93

  Data / ML

  15

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering63 Data & AI48 Cloud & infrastructure91 Cybersecurity9 IT support11 Business applications2 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design1 IT leadership & projects3 Other roles1 Unclassified2

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Kubernetes194 · 21.8%

  Required

  41

  Preferred

  12

  Alternative

  15

  Incidental mention

  8

  Unclassified mention

  118

  Building software

  3

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  3

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering63 Data & AI10 Cloud & infrastructure108 Cybersecurity1 IT support8 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design1 IT leadership & projects2 Other roles1 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• SQL186 · 20.9%

  Required

  37

  Preferred

  4

  Alternative

  20

  Incidental mention

  3

  Unclassified mention

  122

  Building software

  16

  Supporting scripts

  3

  Data / ML

  26

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering70 Data & AI53 Cloud & infrastructure18 Cybersecurity3 IT support19 Business applications9 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design2 IT leadership & projects8 Other roles3 Unclassified1

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Linux136 · 15.3%

  Required

  26

  Preferred

  4

  Alternative

  8

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  98

  Building software

  1

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering8 Data & AI3 Cloud & infrastructure97 Cybersecurity3 IT support21 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded1 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects3 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Terraform127 · 14.3%

  Required

  17

  Preferred

  9

  Alternative

  23

  Incidental mention

  3

  Unclassified mention

  75

  Building software

  2

  Supporting scripts

  2

  Data / ML

  2

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering9 Data & AI7 Cloud & infrastructure107 Cybersecurity3 IT support1 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Docker126 · 14.2%

  Required

  16

  Preferred

  11

  Alternative

  12

  Incidental mention

  3

  Unclassified mention

  84

  Building software

  1

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  3

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering52 Data & AI9 Cloud & infrastructure54 Cybersecurity2 IT support5 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design1 IT leadership & projects2 Other roles1 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• GCP124 · 13.9%

  Required

  5

  Preferred

  21

  Alternative

  26

  Incidental mention

  6

  Unclassified mention

  66

  Building software

  5

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  7

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering34 Data & AI25 Cloud & infrastructure52 Cybersecurity7 IT support3 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects3 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• .NET102 · 11.5%

  Required

  24

  Preferred

  3

  Alternative

  11

  Incidental mention

  2

  Unclassified mention

  62

  Building software

  44

  Supporting scripts

  1

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering87 Data & AI1 Cloud & infrastructure6 Cybersecurity1 IT support0 Business applications3 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design1 IT leadership & projects2 Other roles0 Unclassified1

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• C#87 · 9.8%

  Required

  21

  Preferred

  4

  Alternative

  13

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  49

  Building software

  44

  Supporting scripts

  1

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering75 Data & AI0 Cloud & infrastructure1 Cybersecurity2 IT support2 Business applications4 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design2 IT leadership & projects1 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Java74 · 8.3%

  Required

  12

  Preferred

  4

  Alternative

  31

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  27

  Building software

  40

  Supporting scripts

  3

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering46 Data & AI4 Cloud & infrastructure8 Cybersecurity2 IT support6 Business applications2 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects5 Other roles1 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• PowerShell73 · 8.2%

  Required

  6

  Preferred

  2

  Alternative

  14

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  51

  Building software

  0

  Supporting scripts

  63

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering4 Data & AI1 Cloud & infrastructure53 Cybersecurity7 IT support8 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Bash72 · 8.1%

  Required

  2

  Preferred

  6

  Alternative

  19

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  45

  Building software

  0

  Supporting scripts

  69

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering3 Data & AI2 Cloud & infrastructure55 Cybersecurity4 IT support8 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• TypeScript70 · 7.9%

  Required

  8

  Preferred

  7

  Alternative

  21

  Incidental mention

  6

  Unclassified mention

  28

  Building software

  33

  Supporting scripts

  2

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering52 Data & AI3 Cloud & infrastructure7 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications2 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects4 Other roles0 Unclassified2

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• LLM56 · 6.3%

  Required

  2

  Preferred

  3

  Alternative

  13

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  38

  Building software

  10

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  24

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering24 Data & AI16 Cloud & infrastructure7 Cybersecurity2 IT support1 Business applications1 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects3 Other roles1 Unclassified1

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• JavaScript49 · 5.5%

  Required

  5

  Preferred

  3

  Alternative

  15

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  26

  Building software

  18

  Supporting scripts

  6

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering31 Data & AI2 Cloud & infrastructure4 Cybersecurity2 IT support1 Business applications5 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects1 Other roles2 Unclassified1

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Angular46 · 5.2%

  Required

  5

  Preferred

  3

  Alternative

  4

  Incidental mention

  3

  Unclassified mention

  31

  Building software

  19

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering39 Data & AI2 Cloud & infrastructure2 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design1 IT leadership & projects2 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• React41 · 4.6%

  Required

  5

  Preferred

  3

  Alternative

  9

  Incidental mention

  4

  Unclassified mention

  20

  Building software

  19

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering35 Data & AI1 Cloud & infrastructure3 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects2 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• SAP37 · 4.2%

  Required

  3

  Preferred

  0

  Alternative

  2

  Incidental mention

  3

  Unclassified mention

  29

  Building software

  0

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  4

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering8 Data & AI7 Cloud & infrastructure5 Cybersecurity2 IT support1 Business applications9 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects5 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Go31 · 3.5%

  Required

  4

  Preferred

  5

  Alternative

  15

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  7

  Building software

  18

  Supporting scripts

  4

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering17 Data & AI0 Cloud & infrastructure13 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles1 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Machine learning31 · 3.5%

  Required

  3

  Preferred

  3

  Alternative

  7

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  18

  Building software

  1

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  17

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering6 Data & AI15 Cloud & infrastructure6 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects3 Other roles0 Unclassified1

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Node.js30 · 3.4%

  Required

  1

  Preferred

  4

  Alternative

  15

  Incidental mention

  2

  Unclassified mention

  8

  Building software

  17

  Supporting scripts

  3

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering22 Data & AI3 Cloud & infrastructure2 Cybersecurity0 IT support1 Business applications1 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects1 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Claude Code24 · 2.7%

  Required

  1

  Preferred

  0

  Alternative

  14

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  9

  Building software

  20

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering14 Data & AI3 Cloud & infrastructure4 Cybersecurity1 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects2 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Cursor17 · 1.9%

  Required

  0

  Preferred

  0

  Alternative

  10

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  7

  Building software

  14

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering11 Data & AI2 Cloud & infrastructure2 Cybersecurity1 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design1 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• GitHub Copilot13 · 1.5%

  Required

  0

  Preferred

  1

  Alternative

  6

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  6

  Building software

  11

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering6 Data & AI3 Cloud & infrastructure4 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• C++11 · 1.2%

  Required

  1

  Preferred

  0

  Alternative

  4

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  6

  Building software

  5

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering8 Data & AI0 Cloud & infrastructure2 Cybersecurity1 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Salesforce11 · 1.2%

  Required

  2

  Preferred

  2

  Alternative

  3

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  4

  Building software

  0

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering4 Data & AI2 Cloud & infrastructure1 Cybersecurity0 IT support1 Business applications2 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design1 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• SCADA10 · 1.1%

  Required

  0

  Preferred

  1

  Alternative

  2

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  7

  Building software

  0

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering2 Data & AI1 Cloud & infrastructure2 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications1 Industrial & embedded3 Product & design1 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• PHP9 · 1.0%

  Required

  1

  Preferred

  0

  Alternative

  2

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  6

  Building software

  1

  Supporting scripts

  1

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering4 Data & AI1 Cloud & infrastructure3 Cybersecurity0 IT support1 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Codex5 · 0.6%

  Required

  0

  Preferred

  0

  Alternative

  2

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  3

  Building software

  4

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering2 Data & AI3 Cloud & infrastructure0 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Ruby5 · 0.6%

  Required

  0

  Preferred

  1

  Alternative

  3

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  1

  Building software

  1

  Supporting scripts

  2

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering3 Data & AI0 Cloud & infrastructure2 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• C4 · 0.4%

  Required

  1

  Preferred

  1

  Alternative

  1

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  1

  Building software

  3

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering2 Data & AI0 Cloud & infrastructure1 Cybersecurity0 IT support1 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

• Rust3 · 0.3%

  Required

  0

  Preferred

  0

  Alternative

  2

  Incidental mention

  0

  Unclassified mention

  1

  Building software

  2

  Supporting scripts

  0

  Data / ML

  0

  Roles mentioning this skill

  Software engineering3 Data & AI0 Cloud & infrastructure0 Cybersecurity0 IT support0 Business applications0 Industrial & embedded0 Product & design0 IT leadership & projects0 Other roles0 Unclassified0

  These mention types describe all roles in the current dashboard selection.

Beyond a single language

No explicit signal

767

Accepts named alternatives

101

Open to learning or switching

19

Explicitly language agnostic

3

Adverts mentioning AI-assisted engineering

69

These are separate signals. A list of languages does not establish language agnosticism, and these observations cannot show that AI caused a change.

Most requested skills by role

Country sample · Spain. Open a role family to see its most requested skills.

• Cloud & infrastructure Adverts (274)

  Skill	Adverts requiring it	Share of role adverts
  Kubernetes	29	10.6%
  Linux	20	7.3%
  AWS	19	6.9%
  Azure	19	6.9%
  Terraform	14	5.1%
  Docker	8	2.9%
  Python	5	1.8%
  PowerShell	4	1.5%
  GCP	3	1.1%
  SQL	3	1.1%

• Software engineering Adverts (231)

  Skill	Adverts requiring it	Share of role adverts
  .NET	23	10.0%
  C#	20	8.7%
  SQL	14	6.1%
  Python	12	5.2%
  Java	10	4.3%
  AWS	8	3.5%
  Kubernetes	8	3.5%
  TypeScript	8	3.5%
  Angular	5	2.2%
  JavaScript	5	2.2%

• IT support Adverts (110)

  Skill	Adverts requiring it	Share of role adverts
  Kubernetes	3	2.7%
  Python	3	2.7%
  SQL	3	2.7%
  AWS	2	1.8%
  Docker	2	1.8%
  Linux	2	1.8%
  Bash	1	0.9%
  Java	1	0.9%
  PowerShell	1	0.9%
  Salesforce	1	0.9%

• Data & AI Adverts (88)

  Skill	Adverts requiring it	Share of role adverts
  SQL	13	14.8%
  Python	12	13.6%
  AWS	3	3.4%
  Terraform	3	3.4%
  Docker	2	2.3%
  GCP	2	2.3%
  Machine learning	2	2.3%
  Azure	1	1.1%
  Java	1	1.1%
  Kubernetes	1	1.1%

• IT leadership & projects Adverts (86)

  Skill	Adverts requiring it	Share of role adverts
  LLM	1	1.2%
  SQL	1	1.2%

• Business applications Adverts (40)

  Skill	Adverts requiring it	Share of role adverts
  SQL	1	2.5%

• Cybersecurity Adverts (28)

  Skill	Adverts requiring it	Share of role adverts
  Azure	2	7.1%
  Docker	1	3.6%
  PowerShell	1	3.6%
  Python	1	3.6%
  SAP	1	3.6%
  SQL	1	3.6%

• Other roles Adverts (16)

  No skills were explicitly required in this role family.

• Product & design Adverts (8)

  Skill	Adverts requiring it	Share of role adverts
  .NET	1	12.5%
  Azure	1	12.5%
  C#	1	12.5%
  SQL	1	12.5%
  Salesforce	1	12.5%

• Industrial & embedded Adverts (5)

  No skills were explicitly required in this role family.

Maximum advertised pay by experience

The curves use the upper amount of each stated pay range. Annual amounts and monthly amounts projected over 12 payments are combined across all pay types in one graph. Currency / period: EUR.

The data behind the figures · Spain

Collection and analysis counts update during the day. They refer to current source data and may differ from the published sample.

Collected adverts

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Analyzed adverts

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In current publication

890

Awaiting analysis

—

Requiring review

—

Being analyzed now

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Coverage by country

Country samples can overlap; adding their counts does not give a distinct all-country total.

Analysis progress · all markets

Analysis progress is temporarily unavailable

Progress updates during the day. The market tabs show the latest published statistics.

In current publication

Market charts use the latest completed publication. Its sample and data cutoff remain stable until the next publication.

Published statistics cover 20,712 of 20,729 collected adverts across all markets. Remaining adverts await analysis or review.

Complete observation days: 2 · Partial observation days: 0

Analysis version: codex-observatory-4:gpt-6.1-terra:high

Statistics refresh daily at 03:00 Europe/Rome