recommendations jobs in 2026 — demand, top roles hiring, and related skills

As of 2026-05-17, recommendations appears in 160 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the past 90 days — most often required for Product Manager roles, with demand down 27% vs the prior 4 weeks.

Last updated · 90d ending 2026-05-17

Postings · last 90 days
160
Demand vs prior month
down 27% vs the prior 4 weeks
Top job title · 19% require it
Top hiring metro
San Francisco

Get a daily email digest of new recommendations content

Skillenai indexes news articles, blog posts, and research papers that mention recommendations. Click below and we'll open a pre-filled daily digest — change the cadence to hourly or weekly if you prefer, then save. Free account required (~30 seconds).

Frequently asked questions about recommendations

+Is recommendations in demand in 2026?

Yes. recommendations appears in 160 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-05-17, with demand down 27% vs the prior 4 weeks. It is most often required for Product Manager roles (19% of Product Manager postings list it).

+What jobs require recommendations?

According to the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-05-17, the job titles most likely to require recommendations are Product Manager (19% of postings list recommendations), Data Scientist (11% of postings list recommendations), AI/ML Engineer (9% of postings list recommendations).

+What skills are commonly paired with recommendations?

Across job postings indexed by Skillenai (90 days ending 2026-05-17), recommendations most often appears alongside machine learning, personalization, Python, search, SQL.

+Where is recommendations most in demand?

As of 2026-05-17, the metro areas posting the most jobs requiring recommendations are San Francisco, New York City, Bengaluru, Toronto, London, according to the Skillenai jobs index.

+How can I keep up with new recommendations content and jobs?

Skillenai indexes news, blog posts, and research papers mentioning recommendations alongside the jobs index. You can subscribe to a daily email digest of new recommendations content from your Skillenai account.

Weekly job postings requiring recommendations — last 90 days

Job titles most likely to require recommendations

RolePostings mentioning% requiring
Product Manager3119.4%
Data Scientist1710.6%
AI/ML Engineer159.4%
Machine Learning Engineer138.1%
Software Engineer116.9%
Engineering Manager74.4%
Product Designer63.8%
Enterprise Architect42.5%
Data Science Manager31.9%
Principal Product Manager31.9%

Top metros hiring for recommendations

NamePostingsShare
San Francisco2329.1%
New York City2126.6%
Bengaluru1113.9%
Toronto78.9%
London56.3%
San Jose56.3%
Los Angeles33.8%
Belgrade22.5%
Berlin22.5%

Skills commonly paired with recommendations

Stay current on recommendations without doomscrolling

Same one-click setup as above, plus you can pull the underlying stream into your own coding agent via the Skillenai API.

Explore related pages

How this was computed

Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-05-17. Skills are resolved against the Skillenai canonical taxonomy, so the same entity is counted whether a posting writes 'Python', 'Python 3', or 'python'. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-requested skills).

source
Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
entity_id
fb2c6e5492dce021
data_as_of
2026-05-17
window_days
90
Hiring engineers who use recommendations?

The demand, skills, and geo numbers on this page come from the same Skillenai labor market index that powers our API. Use it for compensation benchmarking, hiring-competition analysis, and skill-adoption tracking.

Skillenai for recruiters →
Compiled by Jared Rand · Data sourced from the Skillenai labor market index