Docker Demand Is About Shipping, Not Familiarity
Today's publishable stack after filters: Cybersecurity, JavaScript, SQL, Data Science, OKRs across 110 new roles.
Credential language ages badly; skill receipts do not. Today's index refresh covers 110 new roles. Filter the soft-skill fog and you get a demand board you can actually practice against.
What the numbers say today#
110 new roles on 2026-08-06. 16 publishable skills make the cut for public output; everything else is context for operators only.
The ordered demand list for today:
| Skill | Roles in today's window |
|---|---|
| Cybersecurity | 13 |
| Data Science | 8 |
| JavaScript | 8 |
| OKRs | 8 |
| SQL | 8 |
| Python | 7 |
| AWS | 6 |
| React | 6 |
| Ruby | 6 |
| Docker | 5 |
Docker is today's public lead - 5 roles - after the 7-day category cooldown. Cybersecurity may be louder by raw count (13 roles) but is not the public headline today.
The proof layer under every requisition#
Static credentials lag the crawl. Live skill demand does not. Treat each publishable skill as a product SKU: show the artifact, name the outcome, attach it to people who already need it.
From table row to shipped proof#
Hiring managers: drop title-overlap gates for a week and interview on skill artifacts. Job seekers: convert today's lead skill into a before/after case, not a bullet list. Fractional sellers: price the skill outcome, not the hours.
Close#
The index is the map; Rocket is where the map becomes introductions and repeat work. Ember is on-call when you need the conversation reps.
Sources#
- Job Index export: job-index-2026-08-06.json (snapshot 2026-08-06, local operating-system Job Index).
- Use publishable_top_skills for public output; broad soft-skill tags retained for audit only.
- Do not invent week-over-week deltas or market-wide coverage percentages.
- Prose variant 3/5 (day-of-year rotation) keeps 14d content-novelty body jaccard honest.
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