26% of open engineering leadership roles in Portugal mention AI coding tools
Across 35 open EM, Staff, Principal, Head, Director and VP engineering roles at 17 companies, from public job boards. "EU" here means Europe: the EU-27, the UK, Switzerland, Norway and the rest of Europe, plus remote roles open across Europe.
As of 13 Nov 2026, 26% of open engineering leadership roles in Portugal mention AI coding tools (9 of 35); there are 382 open engineering roles in Portugal in total, at 48 companies.
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A mention is not adoption, and not a requirement. A posting can name a tool the team uses, is trying out, or lists as nice to have. These are counts of job postings, not of users or seats.
Portugal at a glance
Snapshot: 13 Nov 2026 (last completed crawl)
26%
Leadership share
9 of 35 open leadership roles mention AI coding tools
382
Open engineering roles
At 48 companies
5
Mention AI governance or the EU AI Act
1.3% of open engineering roles
35
Open leadership roles in Portugal
9
Mention AI coding tools
26%
2
Mention AI governance or the EU AI Act
5.7%
By country
All of Europe →| Country | Open roles | Mention AI tools | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 47 | 16% | |
| Germany | 49 | 20% | |
| France | 8 | 8.3% | |
| Poland | 29 | 39% | |
| Spain | 22 | 30% | |
| Remote, Europe-wide | 4 | 7.5% | |
| Netherlands | 9 | 23% | |
| Portugal | 9 | 26% | |
| Ireland | 7 | 21% | |
| Sweden | 5 | 17% | |
| Belgium | 6 | 33% | |
| Serbia | 1 | 5.9% | |
| Switzerland | 1 | 6.3% | |
| Finland | 5 | 33% | |
| Greece | 1 | 7.7% | |
| Austria | 2 | 18% | |
| Bulgaria | 2 | 18% | |
| Lithuania | 4 | 36% | |
| Italy | 2 | 20% | |
| Denmark | 2 | 20% | |
| Romania | 1 | 13% | |
| Norway | 0 | 0% | |
| Slovakia | 0 | 0% | |
| Czechia | 2 | 33% | |
| Cyprus | 1 | 17% | |
| Hungary | 2 | 40% | |
| Latvia | 0 | 0% | |
| Slovenia | 1 | 33% | |
| Ukraine | 0 | 0% | |
| Malta | 0 | 0% | |
| Croatia | 0 | 0% | |
| North Macedonia | 0 | 0% |
A posting counts for the first European country it lists. Remote roles open across Europe have no single country.
Leadership vs individual contributors in Portugal
All 382 open engineering roles: 11% mention AI coding tools. Leadership 26%, individual contributors 9.5%.
| Role family | Share mentioning AI tools | Mention AI | Open roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering leadership | 9 | 35 | |
| Software (general) | 9 | 72 | |
| Data / ML engineering | 6 | 67 | |
| DevOps / SRE / Platform | 7 | 61 | |
| Backend | 1 | 54 | |
| Full stack | 7 | 29 | |
| Frontend | 1 | 22 | |
| QA / Test / SDET | 1 | 20 | |
| Security engineering | 0 | 19 | |
| Mobile | 1 | 3 |
Posting languages in Portugal
All open engineering roles by the language the posting is written in. Tags are matched in English and eight other European languages, so local-language postings count too.
| Language | Share of postings | Open roles | Mention AI tools |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | 367 | 11% | |
| Portuguese | 13 | 7.7% | |
| Not detected | 2 | 0% |
Top tools in Portugal
AI coding tools in Portugal
Open engineering roles of all kinds that mention each tool or practice.
AI governance and the EU AI Act
Open engineering roles in Portugal whose posting mentions each topic. This counts mentions only; it says nothing about how a company complies.
Companies hiring engineers in Portugal
By open engineering roles in Portugal, with how many mention AI coding tools.
- Devoteam123 roles
- Inetum248 roles · 6 AI
- AlterSolutions25 roles
- Axiansgroup24 roles · 4 AI
- Cloudflare24 roles · 4 AI
- Elastic19 roles · 2 AI
- Natixisinportugal14 roles
- Thought Machine11 roles
- Valtech6 roles · 4 AI
- Capitalontap6 roles
- Lokainc5 roles
- Sensor Tower5 roles
- Indiciumai4 roles · 3 AI
- Block Labs4 roles · 2 AI
- SIXT4 roles · 2 AI
- Sword Health4 roles · 1 AI
- CEiiA3 roles · 1 AI
- Enhesa3 roles · 1 AI
- Arcesiumllc3 roles
- Catawiki3 roles
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