Beyond CodingHow AI is changing IT and tech roles and their skills
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Coding
Most tech job postings now ask for soft skills.
Not a new framework. Not a new language. The skill that moved into the top two of developer postings is explaining your work to people who do not write code.
In 2022 it was in 32.5% of Software Engineer postings. Today it is in 46%, ahead of Java, C++ and TypeScript. Three other human skills moved even faster. Which ones, and in which roles, is in the report.
See the full list in the reportIn four years, the Software Engineer role has been transformed.
More AI skills, more human skills, far fewer doors open to juniors. We compared Software Engineer postings from 2022 with those from the first half of 2026.
Six questions the report answers, across 47 IT roles.
Same postings, same dictionary, every role. Pick the question that matters to you.
Which role changed faster than any engineering role?
It is not technical. AI skills in its postings grew more than eight times, and Excel left its top-20 requirements.
In the reportWhich editor became a hiring requirement in under eighteen months?
Six skills went from zero to required. Three tools that were standard in 2022 are leaving the job description.
In the reportWhich human skills are falling while all the others rise?
Fourteen soft skills measured one by one, 2022 against 2026. Two of them go down.
In the reportHow fast is the AI stack moving?
LLMs, agents and AI coding tools went from a handful of mentions to a standard requirement in two years. Which ones are still rising, and which have peaked.
In the reportWhat do postings for your role ask for now?
Five deep dives: Software Engineer, Product Manager, DevOps Engineer, Data Analyst, Engineering Manager. What entered and what left the top-20.
In the reportWhat should HR, L&D and IT leaders do about it?
Takeaways function by function, from job descriptions to assessments to how teams absorb new stacks.
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- 106,582 real postings, 47 IT roles, 2022 vs 2026
- Five role deep dives: Software Engineer, Product Manager, DevOps, Data Analyst, Engineering Manager
- Takeaways for HR, L&D and IT leaders
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Beyond Coding is a joint research report by Anthropos and Orbyta Tech, built on 106,582 public job postings from 28,385 companies in 202 countries (2020 to 2026, Coresignal data), mapped against the Anthropos skills taxonomy and re-tested on the 2,048 companies present in both periods. Figures accurate to the best of our knowledge as of October 2026. Full methodology, sources and bibliography inside the report.