Paste the job ad. Practise that job's interview.

Live job postings. Each week we read the new ones and count, for every skill and role, how many ads ask for it. Every status on the board sits next to the numbers behind it: a full quarter of demand, the change from the quarter before, and when we first saw the skill. If we changed how we collect a market recently, we hold its rows and say so rather than show you a stale number.

No. Nothing on the board is a forecast. Every status is measured from a finished quarter of job ads, with the numbers behind it right beside it. BOARDING means demand for that skill grew and stayed up for a full quarter. It tells you what has already happened, not what will. What you do about it is up to you.

Job ads from the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia, with salaries in each country's own currency. The roles are Engineering Manager, Machine Learning Engineer, Data Engineer, Data Scientist, Data Analyst, Full Stack Engineer, Frontend Engineer, Backend Engineer, Mobile Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Security Engineer, QA Engineer, Embedded Engineer, and Software Engineer. If your job isn't on that list, the board has no row for it and Pro can't build a gap list for you, so don't buy it for that.

From two lists. The first is what you tell us: the skills you pick at sign-up or paste from a CV. The second is what you've proved: every check you pass adds the skill to your record. We compare both against what ads for your role ask for this quarter. A skill you've only claimed counts; one you've passed a check on counts for more.

The check still tells you what to read up on, question by question. A guide exists for 29 of 76 areas so far. For the rest, the question bank is the study list: every question comes with its answer and the reason, so you can work through an area before you sit the check.

We keep the text on your account so your gap list and job-ad quizzes can use it, and a language model reads it once to pull out the skills. That is the only place it goes. Delete your account and it goes with it. The privacy policy names every service we use.

Every Tarmac question was researched, fact-checked and reviewed by a person before you see it. It's a fixed bank of 12,695, nothing made up on the fly. Paste a job ad and your quiz is picked from that bank to fit it, and the same ad builds the same quiz every time. You can do that once a day without an account.

No. Tarmac is practice for the days before. It doesn't listen to a call or feed you answers while you're on one. Companies now check for live-answer tools, and a candidate caught with one is out. Use the days you have: paste the ad, work the questions it asks, and cover the skills it wants that you haven't shown yet.

All 12,695 questions, with instant marking and code execution, plus the board, the salary tables and the dossiers, with up to ten practice sessions, a hundred graded answers and two quizzes built from a pasted job ad every 30 days on a free account (one ad a day with no account at all). No card. Typed answers are marked with written feedback on every plan, and a free account gets one phone screen and today's step of the plan for a job it saves. Pro lifts the caps and adds what's specific to you: what to learn first for your role, how close you are skill by skill, more phone screens, and every day of the plan up to your interview. $19 for a month, $99 for a year, or $49 for three months. Each is one payment. The caps are how we make money: people in the middle of a job hunt upgrade to Pro, and the market data stays free either way.

Every plan is one payment that stops on its own, so there is nothing to cancel and no renewal to forget. The Pass is $49 for 3 months of Pro. Buy it when a search starts and let it run out once you've signed. A month ($19) suits a short push, like the weeks before one interview. A year ($99) is for people who keep practising between jobs. You can add time before yours ends. All prices are in US dollars.

There is nothing to cancel. Every plan is one payment, and Pro runs to the end of what you've paid for. If you've barely used Pro, any payment is refunded in full when you ask within 14 days, and that ends the time it bought. After 14 days it isn't refunded. Email support from your account address to ask. The refund policy has the detail.

Your account goes back to Free. Everything you built stays: your skill record, every check you've passed, your practice history and your target role. The question bank, the board and the salary tables were never behind the paywall, so you keep those too. Buy Pro again later and it picks up from the same record.