What's live: skill search, city comparison, and opportunity scores

I read every tech job posting in Finland every Monday. Here's what you can do with that.

Real demand scores, updated weekly

Every Monday, the pipeline pulls tech job postings from Duunitori and The Hub, extracts skill mentions from job descriptions, and writes the counts to the database. Each skill gets a demand score — the number of Helsinki (or Tampere, Turku, Oulu, Jyväskylä) postings that explicitly require it that week.

No surveys. No estimates from 2023. Actual postings, this week. You can read more about how the data works.

Search and compare skills

The skills page lets you search and filter the full ranked list by city and experience level. The top three skills get highlight cards. Below the main list, a weekly movers section shows what rose and fell since last Monday — so you can see momentum, not just current standing.

Each skill has its own page. Click through to something like React or Python and you get demand broken down by city, a trend chart going back several weeks, and a competition score (more on that below).

If a skill you care about isn't tracked yet, there's a form to suggest it.

City-by-city comparison

The market page shows every Finnish city I track, with total postings and a week-over-week change. Pick a city — say, Helsinki — and you get:

• Total postings and WoW change
• Weekly volume chart (8 weeks of history)
• Top skills, filterable by category
• What makes this city different — skills where local demand is disproportionately high versus the Finnish average. Useful if you're weighing a move or just curious whether Tampere is more Java-heavy than Helsinki (it is).

Opportunity score: demand meets competition

The competition badge on each skill page combines demand with a supply-side signal: how many other candidates are competing for the same postings. A skill with high demand and low competition gets a better opportunity score.

If you're early in a learning path and choosing between two viable options, this is the number that matters.

Weekly digest

If you don't want to check in every Monday yourself, subscribe to the digest. One email: top movers, a hidden opportunity, no noise.

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What do you want next?

I build based on what people actually need. If you have a feature you'd want to see — salary ranges, co-occurring skills, occupation-layer filtering, something else — find Max on LinkedIn.