SkillSurvey watches Australian job boards — Seek and Jora — and tracks how often each technical skill appears in job listings month by month. The goal is to give a clear picture of which skills employers are actually asking for, and how that demand is changing over time.
Every month, SkillSurvey:
- Collects job listings from Seek and Jora automatically.
- Counts skill mentions — for each skill it tracks (e.g. Python, Kubernetes, React), it counts how many listings mentioned that skill during the month.
- Publishes the results through a web dashboard showing a chart of monthly counts per skill over the past year.
Anyone curious about the Australian tech job market — developers planning what to learn next, hiring managers benchmarking against the market, or researchers studying industry trends.
Install the following system packages once on the server:
pkg_add go node chromium chromedriver| Package | Why it is needed |
|---|---|
go |
Compiles the database server and the scheduled task runner |
node |
Runs the frontend build tools |
chromium |
Headless browser used by the scraper to load job listing pages |
chromedriver |
Controls Chromium during automated end-to-end tests |
No global npm packages are required — all frontend tooling is installed locally via npm install inside the frontend/ directory.
| Part | What it does |
|---|---|
| Web scraper | Visits Seek and Jora on a schedule and saves job listings |
| Report generator | Counts skill mentions in the saved listings and stores monthly totals |
| Web interface | Shows the monthly totals as an interactive chart |
| Database | Stores listings, skill definitions, and monthly counts |