Every job title the research found

452 job titles in computing. 277 lead to a career profile in the book; 175 name work that was confirmed to exist and was not profiled.

Job titles are not careers. The same work is advertised under a dozen names, and a dozen different jobs share one name. This index exists so you can start from the title you were given and find out what it actually is.

A title tells you less than the salary attached to it appears to, and the salary tells you less than either. Chapter 3 takes two people on identical pay and shows how differently their careers actually went — it is free, and it is the argument this index rests on.

Search for the words on the advertisement rather than the words you expected. Titles here are recorded as employers write them, so "AV perception engineer" and "autonomous vehicle engineer" are separate rows that lead to the same work. The covered by column names the career that work belongs to; the chapter number is where the book examines it in full.

What the five statuses mean

The last column is a judgement about the work rather than about the title, and it is the reason a title can be common and still be a poor thing to aim at.

Profiled

The book scores this work in full, across all ten dimensions. These are the titles with a complete answer behind them.

Growing

Employers are advertising more of this work, not merely more of this word. Both happen, and they are not the same thing — a title can spread across job boards while the underlying work stays flat.

Stable

The work persists at roughly its current volume. Unglamorous and often the safer entry point, because stable work is hired for continuously rather than in the bursts that follow a funding cycle.

Contracting

Fewer employers are hiring for it than were. This is a statement about demand, not about difficulty or worth, and it is the column to read before paying for a course that trains you into one of these.

Absorbed

The work still exists but has stopped being a job of its own — it has become a task inside a broader role. The title survives on old job descriptions long after employers stop hiring for it separately, which is exactly why it is worth marking.

Titles marked not profiled in the covered-by column name work the research confirmed exists and did not score. They are here because leaving them out would have made the index look more complete than it is.