30% of open engineering leadership roles in Spain mention AI coding tools
Across 73 open EM, Staff, Principal, Head, Director and VP engineering roles at 33 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.
73
Open leadership roles in Spain
22
Mention AI coding tools
30%
2
Mention AI governance or the EU AI Act
2.7%
By country
Show all of Europe →| Country | Open roles | Mention AI tools | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 293 | 47 | 16% |
| Germany | 243 | 50 | 21% |
| France | 93 | 7 | 7.5% |
| Poland | 74 | 29 | 39% |
| Spain | 73 | 22 | 30% |
| Remote, Europe-wide | 53 | 4 | 7.5% |
| Netherlands | 40 | 9 | 23% |
| Portugal | 36 | 9 | 25% |
| Ireland | 33 | 6 | 18% |
| Sweden | 29 | 5 | 17% |
| Switzerland | 17 | 1 | 5.9% |
| Belgium | 17 | 6 | 35% |
| Serbia | 17 | 1 | 5.9% |
| Finland | 15 | 5 | 33% |
| Greece | 14 | 1 | 7.1% |
| Austria | 14 | 2 | 14% |
| Lithuania | 11 | 4 | 36% |
| Bulgaria | 11 | 2 | 18% |
| Italy | 10 | 2 | 20% |
| Denmark | 10 | 2 | 20% |
| Romania | 9 | 1 | 11% |
| Norway | 9 | 0 | 0% |
| Slovakia | 7 | 0 | 0% |
| Cyprus | 6 | 1 | 17% |
| Czechia | 6 | 2 | 33% |
| Hungary | 5 | 2 | 40% |
| Latvia | 4 | 0 | 0% |
| Slovenia | 3 | 1 | 33% |
| Ukraine | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| Malta | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| Croatia | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| North Macedonia | 1 | 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 Spain
All 454 open engineering roles: 15% mention AI coding tools. Leadership 30%, individual contributors 12%.
| Role family | Share mentioning AI tools | Mention AI | Open roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering leadership | 30% | 22 | 73 |
| Backend | 12% | 13 | 105 |
| Software (general) | 14% | 13 | 91 |
| Data / ML engineering | 11% | 6 | 55 |
| DevOps / SRE / Platform | 5.7% | 2 | 35 |
| Full stack | 25% | 7 | 28 |
| Security engineering | 5.6% | 1 | 18 |
| QA / Test / SDET | 5.9% | 1 | 17 |
| Mobile | 6.3% | 1 | 16 |
| Frontend | 19% | 3 | 16 |
Posting languages in Spain
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 | 70% | 320 | 18% |
| Spanish | 26% | 119 | 7.6% |
| German | 0.2% | 1 | 0% |
| Not detected | 3.1% | 14 | 7.1% |
Top tools in Spain
Tool, share of open-role mentions7dOpen
- AI-assisted development315
- Agentic workflows012
- RAG07
- Guardrails07
- Claude06
- Claude Code06
- MCP (Model Context Protocol)05
- GitHub Copilot05
- Prompt / context engineering04
- Agentic coding04
- Vector databases04
- OpenAI13
- Gemini03
- AI / agent harness03
- Open / local models03
- Multi-agent systems03
- Cursor03
- Evals / LLM evaluation03
- LLMOps / MLOps03
- Responsible AI12
- vLLM02
- LangChain02
- AI code review01
- LangGraph01
- LiteLLM01
- LlamaIndex01
- Fine-tuning / LoRA / PEFT01
- Local / open-weight LLMs01
- Lovable01
- CrewAI01
- OpenAI Codex01
- ChatGPT / GPT models01
- Amazon Bedrock01
- Azure OpenAI01
- AutoGen / AG201
- Anthropic01
- Spec-driven development01
- v001
- AI security01
- Gemini Code Assist / Gemini CLI01
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