January 2019 Hacker News Hiring Trends
Will React ever be defeated? That is the question I am beginning to ask each month as React continues to dominate the whoishiring posts on Hacker News. You have to think React can't continue this dominance indefinitely, it will begin a decline at some point. But, when, and what will dethrone it?
Overall, the rankings look similar to previous months, including a Top 5 that is exactly the same as last month. 5-10 saw a little bit of movement with Postgresql moving up 4 spots from 10 to 6. Go cracked the top 10 again with a jump from 11 to 8, becoming the third most popular programming language in the rankings.
Compare Top 10 Programming Languages
Compare Rails, node.js, PHP and Django
Compare React, Angular, Vue, and Ember
Compare Postgresql, MySQL and SQL Server
Compare Mongodb, Elasticsearch, Cassandra and DynamoDB
Compare Storm, Hadoop and Spark
Compare Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS and Kinesis
Compare Terraform, Chef, Puppet and Ansible
Compare Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos and Terraform
| Tech | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| React | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Python | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| AWS | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | +1 |
| Full Stack | 4 | 4 | 0 | 6 | +2 |
| JavaScript | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | -2 |
| Postgresql | 6 | 10 | +4 | 10 | +4 |
| node.js | 7 | 7 | 0 | 5 | -2 |
| golang | 8 | 11 | +3 | 14 | +6 |
| Java | 9 | 8 | -1 | 7 | -2 |
| Machine Learning | 10 | 9 | -1 | 8 | -2 |
| DevOps | 11 | 6 | -5 | 12 | +1 |
| Docker | 12 | 12 | 0 | 16 | +4 |
| Kubernetes | 13 | 15 | +2 | 39 | +26 |
| Ruby | 14 | 13 | -1 | 11 | -3 |
| Android | 15 | 17 | +2 | 15 | 0 |
| Rails | 16 | 14 | -2 | 9 | -7 |
| TypeScript | 17 | 18 | +1 | 42 | +25 |
| iOS | 18 | 16 | -2 | 13 | -5 |
| C++ | 19 | 20 | +1 | 17 | -2 |
| AI | 20 | 21 | +1 | 22 | +2 |
| Tech | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shell | 6 | 94 | 0 | 227 | +133 |
| ClojureScript | 5 | 105 | 1 | 181 | +76 |
| Assembly | 7 | 90 | 2 | 143 | +53 |
| GCP | 11 | 74 | 4 | 116 | +42 |
| TDD | 6 | 95 | 3 | 135 | +40 |
| GraphQL | 40 | 26 | 13 | 64 | +38 |
| REST | 29 | 39 | 11 | 70 | +31 |
| Redshift | 13 | 69 | 6 | 100 | +31 |
| Azure | 13 | 65 | 6 | 95 | +30 |
| Kotlin | 20 | 53 | 9 | 81 | +28 |
| Tech | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HTML5 | 2 | 150 | 10 | 73 | -77 |
| nginx | 2 | 158 | 8 | 86 | -72 |
| Web Services | 4 | 124 | 11 | 71 | -53 |
| zookeeper | 2 | 143 | 5 | 102 | -41 |
| Ethereum | 4 | 114 | 10 | 75 | -39 |
| App Engine | 3 | 142 | 5 | 103 | -39 |
| haproxy | 3 | 131 | 6 | 101 | -30 |
| CSS | 15 | 62 | 30 | 33 | -29 |
| ETL | 4 | 112 | 8 | 85 | -27 |
| Chef | 7 | 93 | 11 | 68 | -25 |