Today's crawl adds 41 new roles. Figma leads the list
Figma held at 15 roles while today's window got a quarter smaller, and it keeps showing up well beyond design jobs. Here is what that means and what you can show for it.
Figma showed up in 15 roles in today's Job Index, the same as yesterday. That sounds flat until you notice the window got smaller. We tracked 188 open roles today versus 248 yesterday, so Figma's share rose from 6.0% to 8.0% of the roles we can see. Most of the big skills went the other way: Python fell from 43 roles to 28, and LLM from 33 to 28.
What the numbers say today#
Today's window has 188 open roles, and 41 of them are new since yesterday's crawl. One role usually asks for several skills, and every skill count below runs across all 188 open roles, not just the 41 new ones. That is how Cybersecurity can appear in 46 roles on a day with 41 new postings.
One more number that looks the same but is not: we tracked 46 different skills today. That is a count of skills, not roles, and it is a coincidence that it matches Cybersecurity's 46 roles.
| Skill | Open roles mentioning it (of 188) |
|---|---|
| Cybersecurity | 46 |
| LLM | 28 |
| OKRs | 28 |
| Python | 28 |
| Machine Learning | 24 |
| JavaScript | 22 |
| SQL | 19 |
| AWS | 17 |
| Figma | 15 |
Cybersecurity is still the biggest single ask, about one open role in four (24.5%), up from one in five yesterday (20.2%). Figma sits further down the list by raw count, but it is one of the few skills that held its number while the window shrank.
Where Figma is showing up#
The 15 roles are not all design jobs. Today's sample includes a Lead Product Designer and a Front End Developer, which you would expect. It also includes a Technical Product Manager, a Technical Product Lead on an AI finance app, a Head of Technology, and a Senior DevOps Engineer.
That mix tells you how work is getting done now. Teams are smaller, handoffs are fewer, and more people are expected to show an idea instead of describing it in a doc. A product lead who can mock up the flow, or an engineer who can sketch the dashboard before building it, saves everyone a week of back and forth. That is good news for anyone who works across lines.
What you can show for it#
You do not need a design title to make Figma work for you. Pick one of these and share it this week:
- A before and after. Take one screen, form, or report you improved and show both versions side by side, with one line on what changed for the people using it.
- A clickable prototype. Five screens that walk through a real problem you solved. Hiring teams can click through it in under a minute.
- A process map. Turn a messy workflow at work into a simple flow. Product, ops, and DevOps teams all read that language.
If you hire: try asking candidates to walk you through a Figma file instead of a slide deck. You will learn more about how they think in ten minutes.
If you work fractional: a clear prototype is one of the fastest ways to scope a project with a new client, because both sides can point at the same thing.
Close#
The Job Index tells you what teams are asking for. Rocket is where you get in front of those teams: build a profile around the work you can show, and get introduced to the people hiring for it. Rocket is now free, and the Rocket Team is around when you want a hand.
Methodology#
Based on a daily crawl of public job listings, snapshotted 2026-11-11. Counts are mentions inside the roles in our crawl window (188 open roles today), not a share of the whole market, and they reflect what is actually posted that day, not modeled projections.
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