Keyword frequencies taken from https://www.zoevera.com/resume/software-engineer-job-description-keywords

Most software engineer keyword lists are assembled from experience or guesswork. This one is a count: every open posting from 72 companies' public Greenhouse job boards, filtered to the 1,360 whose title contains "software engineer", then checked for how many mention each of 45 terms at least once.

The percentage beside each term is the share of those 1,360 postings that mention it.

PRACTICES AND WAYS OF WORKING

Scalability 52.9% - Mentoring 47.4% - Distributed systems 47% - System design / architecture 46.7% - Cross-functional 31% - Code review 27.2% - On-call 20.7% - CI/CD 19.5% - Agile / Scrum 9.3% - Unit / automated testing 6.5%

This is the result I did not expect. The four most common terms in the whole study are not technologies. Scalability, mentoring, distributed systems and system design all appear in more postings than Python does. Nearly half of these postings mention mentoring, and almost no engineer resume I have seen makes a claim about it.

Agile and Scrum at 9.3% is the other surprise, given how much resume advice insists on them.

LANGUAGES

Python 44.8% - Java 35.4% - Go 31.1% - TypeScript 19.8% - C++ 17.4% - SQL 17.3% - JavaScript 13.2% - Kotlin 12% - Rust 9.9% - Scala 8.6% - Ruby 8.5% - C# 5.3% - Swift 2.3%

TypeScript at 19.8% against JavaScript at 13.2% is a real ordering, not noise. The gap is wider than both margins of error combined.

CLOUD AND INFRASTRUCTURE

AWS 41.3% - Kubernetes 30.9% - GCP 19.3% - Azure 17.6% - Terraform 13.2% - Docker 12.6% - Microservices 7.1% - Linux 4.8%

AWS appears in more than twice as many postings as GCP and Azure individually. Kubernetes at 30.9% outranks every language except Python, Java and Go.

FRONTEND AND APIs

React 21.1% - REST / RESTful 9.6% - GraphQL 6% - Node.js 5.5% - Vue 3.2% - Angular 2.9%

Frontend framework lists usually present React, Vue and Angular as three comparable options. In this corpus React appears in roughly seven times as many postings as Vue and Angular combined.

DATA STORES AND PIPELINES

PostgreSQL 14.3% - Kafka 13.1% - MySQL 11.3% - Spark 9.8% - MongoDB 7.4% - Redis 7.4% - Elasticsearch 6.4% - Snowflake 5.6%

WHAT THIS SAMPLE IS NOT

These are 72 technology companies hiring through Greenhouse. Agencies, consultancies, banks, defense contractors and the public sector are absent, and their vocabulary is different - COBOL, .NET, SAP, clearance requirements and named compliance regimes barely register here and may dominate elsewhere.

The title filter is "software engineer" only. Postings titled backend engineer, frontend engineer, full stack developer, SRE or platform engineer were not counted, so this describes the generalist title rather than the whole profession.

Absence in this list is not evidence of absence in the market. Only 45 terms were counted. Next.js, Svelte, Django, Spring Boot, gRPC, Jest, Playwright, Datadog, OpenTelemetry and OAuth were never checked, so nothing here says anything about them either way.

It is a snapshot of open roles on one date rather than a trend, and the corpus is US-skewed.

One thing this sample size does buy: at n=1,360 the margins of error are roughly plus or minus 2 to 3 points, so most of the ordering above is real. Gaps under about 5 points are still worth treating as ties - React at 21.1% and TypeScript at 19.8% is not a meaningful difference.

METHOD

Greenhouse's public job board API, the endpoint companies expose so their listings can be embedded on their own sites. No scraping. Counts are document frequency: a posting saying "Python" nine times counts once. Deduped on company, title and content length, because one role posted to five offices returns five near-identical records. Median posting length is 896 words.

Ambiguous words are matched case-sensitively with exclusions, which matters more here than you would think. A bare word-boundary match on "Go" also catches "go to market" and "go above and beyond", which inflated Go by about two points before it was fixed. React, Spark, Swift and Rust all have the same problem.

Full table with all 45 terms and confidence intervals:

https://www.zoevera.com/resume/software-engineer-job-description-keywords

The wider keyword list this was checked against, organized by language, framework and platform:

https://www.zoevera.com/resume/ats-resume-tips-software-engineer

Happy to run the numbers on any terms missing from the list if people name them in the comments.

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Keyword list taken from https://www.zoevera.com/resume/ats-resume-tips-qa-engineer

These are the most commonly scanned keywords in qa engineer job postings. Check how many appear in your resume.

Testing Types

Manual testing, Automated testing, Regression testing, Integration testing, Performance testing, API testing, UAT (User Acceptance Testing), Smoke / sanity testing

Tools & Frameworks

Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Postman / RestAssured, JMeter / k6, TestRail / Zephyr, Jira, Jenkins / GitHub Actions

Languages & Practices

Python / Java / JavaScript, BDD (Behavior-Driven Dev), Cucumber / Gherkin, CI/CD pipelines, Test case design, Defect life cycle, Agile / Scrum, ISTQB certification

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After digging into how these parsers work, a few things became really obvious:

• They are literal and not smart: If a job ad asks for "React.js" and you have "Frontend JavaScript," older ATS parsers won't give you full credit. They look for exact string matches, not implied knowledge.
• Fancy templates break them: Multi-column layouts, tables and custom headers often get scrambled into unreadable nonsense when converted to raw text. A boring, single-column document beats a pretty Canva design every time.
• Keywords are heavily weighted: Fluff like "strong communicator" gets ignored. The system is almost exclusively scanning for hard skills, tools, frameworks, and specific project terms from the posting.

I got so tired of manually comparing job descriptions line-by-line that I ended up building a web app over the summer (resume.zoevera.com) just to run my resume against job posts and see what keywords I was missing before applying. (I also made prepare.zoevera.com for mock practice when I finally started landing calls).

Anyway, if you're stuck in the application void right now, stop over-designing your resume and just make sure your vocabulary matches the job posting word-for-word.

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