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Weekly reports generated from real job postings — skill trends, rising signals, and what employers are moving away from.

Market Pulse

The Job Market Pulse — 2026-05-09

Every week, Be Relevant scans thousands of real job postings to surface what employers are actually demanding — not what the industry thinks it should be demanding. This week's data spans Account Exec…

May 10, 2026 · Read report →

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Weekly PulseProduct Manager

Product Manager Skills Report — Week of 2026-05-09

The single most striking data point this week: Figma and Design Systems dropped 30 percentage points, landing at just 10% of 775 analyzed postings. That's not a dip — it's a signal that the PM role is…

May 10, 2026
GuideProduct Manager

Product Manager Resume Keywords: What Hiring Teams Actually Screen For

Product manager resumes have a problem that most other roles don't: they have to survive two completely different filters before they land an interview. The first is an ATS system that's scanning for …

April 24, 2026
GuideSoftware Engineer

Software Engineer Resume Keywords in 2026: What the Job Data Actually Shows

Most advice about software engineer resume keywords is based on intuition, outdated templates, or what someone heard in a Reddit thread. This isn't that. The data below comes from analysis of real job…

April 24, 2026
GuideData Analyst

Data Analyst Resume Keywords: What ATS Systems Actually Screen For

Here is the single most important insight from real 2026 job posting data: SQL appears in over 85% of data analyst job postings, making it the one keyword that most consistently separates candidates w…

April 24, 2026
Weekly PulseSoftware Engineer

Software Engineer Skills Report — Week of 2026-04-19

System Design appears in 41% of all software engineering job postings analyzed this week — making it the single most demanded skill across 2,012 live listings. That's a striking gap above everything e…

April 19, 2026
Weekly PulseSoftware Engineer

Software Engineer Skills Report — Week of 2026-04-12

Half of all software engineering job postings analyzed this week — 51% of 2,265 listings — require AWS experience. That single number tells you a lot about where the market sits right now: cloud infra…

April 13, 2026

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