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Original research for people deciding what to build, what to sell, and where software demand is actually appearing. One question owns each page. Every number keeps its date and limitation attached.

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Independent readings from one fixed edition of Leadiy Hiring Pulse. No recycled introductions. No pages created merely to hold a keyword.

The work is there. It just doesn't look like a job.

A buyer can need software without opening a permanent role. This study reads the difference between demand expressed as a finish line and demand expressed as a position.

70.6%of 340 observed opportunities were project delivery or contract work; 18.8% were employment.
Read the project-demand study

WordPress and React are separated by two opportunities.

This is not another argument about which technology is better. It is a closer question: what does a near tie reveal about the maintenance model clients are buying?

106 / 104React and WordPress mentions respectively. Technology categories overlap; this is incidence, not market share.
Read the client-demand comparison

The quiet automation skill showing up in one in ten opportunities.

Automation demand often lives between systems rather than inside a new product. n8n is now named often enough to make that invisible work measurable.

33 / 340opportunities mentioned n8n: 9.7% of the fixed sample, without a trend or adoption claim.
Read the automation-demand study

One edition. Visible limits.

Source
Leadiy Hiring Pulse, fixed edition 2026-W36.
Sample
340 software opportunities from 276 organizations inside the selected 30-day endpoint window.
Active observations
All records in the snapshot appear on four observed dates: 27–30 August 2026. The articles do not call this a monthly trend.
Counting
Engagement categories use one primary classification. Technology labels are multi-label and may overlap.
Reproduction
Download the frozen aggregate JSON. Buckets below five observations remain suppressed.