A weekly issue on what moved in the engineering market, and what agrees
In brief
A weekly issue on what moved in the engineering market, postings, pay and topics, and which of those signals agree with each other.
A weekly momentum score for every tracked technology, the Thoughtworks Technology Radar and a week of job postings, read against each other and organised by discipline: frontend, backend, platform, data and AI, management. Each issue leads with the move the most independent sources agree on, and closes on what the week adds up to.
What it does
- Every move is labelled by its evidence: converging when two or more independent feeds agree, contested when they disagree, single-source when nothing corroborates it
- Every figure is computed in SQL; the prose is written from those figures by a model and never adds one
- A scoreboard of postings, share and median pay per area, with share used because ingestion volume swings week to week
- Every tracked technology gets a weekly momentum score from six independent signals; one that cannot be measured is left out of the average rather than counted as zero
A closer look
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An issue's header and its converging signal of the week, with the figure to check it against next week
The platform section: postings, pay, the topics that moved and the radar changes, under a paragraph on what they add up to
Every tracked technology on one radar, closer to the centre the higher its momentum score, coloured by which way it moved
The whitepapers
Signals has no paper of its own yet; the catalogue has the thinking the lab's tools share.