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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.