37% of reviewed signals carry no detectable skill (sparse posting text) and are excluded from skill percentages. Tap ⓘ for the full definition.
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Read the latest →Skill demand is the share of reviewed signals in the current selection whose posting text matches a skill from a fixed 40-skill taxonomy. Every signal in the dataset was human-reviewed before inclusion, and metric definitions are frozen — the same rule computes this number in every snapshot, so figures stay comparable over time.
A skill at 22% appears in 22 of every 100 reviewed postings in the selection. Higher means more employers are actively asking for it. Small selections (under 100 signals) are flagged — read those with care.
May 2026 baseline: 1,304 unique reviewed signals across 6 GCC countries and 20 named cities, collected 8–29 May 2026 from licensed job-search APIs. 37% of signals carry no detectable skill due to sparse retained text and are excluded from skill percentages. Salary appears in only 6.6% of signals, so no salary benchmark is published.