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Today's publishable stack after filters: Cybersecurity, OKRs, Ruby, SQL, C# across 30 new roles.
Credential language ages badly; skill receipts do not. Today's index refresh covers 30 new roles. Filter the soft-skill fog and you get a demand board you can actually practice against.
What the numbers say today#
30 new roles on 2026-09-19. 47 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 | 40 |
| OKRs | 27 |
| Ruby | 20 |
| SQL | 19 |
| C# | 17 |
| LLM | 16 |
Machine Learning is today's public lead - 16 roles - after the 7-day category cooldown. Cybersecurity may be louder by raw count (40 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. The Rocket Team is on-call when you need the conversation reps.
Methodology#
Based on a daily crawl of public job listings, snapshotted 2026-09-19. Figures reflect what's actually posted that day, not modeled projections.
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