“software”
Appeared in 37% of designer job listings the week of 2026-11-02 (32 of 86 postings).
First tracked 2026-04-13 · 21 weeks of collected data · peak prevalence 39% · no data collected Jul 27 – Sep 27
“software” prevalence in designer JDs, by week
2026-04-13 → 2026-11-02% of each week's designer postings that mention this term · 21 collected weeks · peak 39% · 36 earlier weeks from before collection began not shown · hatched rows: no data collected, not 0%
Where the conversation happens
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| Role | Total mentions |
|---|---|
| Senior Product Designer | 924 |
| Design Engineer | 487 |
| Product Designer | 411 |
| Staff Product Designer | 277 |
| UX Designer | 245 |
| Design Lead | 137 |
| Principal Product Designer | 103 |
| UX Researcher | 99 |
| AI Product Designer | 53 |
| Design Systems Engineer | 44 |
| Content Designer | 41 |
| Junior Product Designer | 24 |
| Growth Designer | 23 |
| Brand Designer | 12 |
| Associate Product Designer | 9 |
| UX Writer | 7 |
| Product Design Manager | 5 |
| Design Director | 5 |
| Head of Design | 2 |
Roles where “software” appears most
Ranked by share of the role's active listings that include this term. Roles with fewer than 20 active listings are left out.
- UX Researcher51% · 107 of 208 listings · 126 mentions
- Associate Product Designer51% · 18 of 35 listings · 42 mentions
- Design Engineer39% · 286 of 731 listings · 520 mentions
- Junior Product Designer38% · 17 of 45 listings · 41 mentions
- UX Designer36% · 129 of 356 listings · 279 mentions
- Product Designer36% · 250 of 704 listings · 464 mentions
- Brand Designer33% · 27 of 83 listings · 37 mentions
- Principal Product Designer31% · 60 of 192 listings · 106 mentions
- Senior Product Designer31% · 509 of 1,657 listings · 951 mentions
- Design Systems Engineer28% · 26 of 92 listings · 45 mentions
About this tracker
Every active designer listing in our corpus is tokenized: HTML stripped, stopwords (common English words + job-posting boilerplate) removed, pure numbers dropped. The remaining tokens are bucketed into Monday-anchored weeks based on when each listing was first seen. Counts are weekly totals across every listing for that week. A week only counts as collected if our LinkedIn scrape (about 80% of volume) ran that week; weeks when it didn't are shown hatched as gaps, never as zeros.