GraphQL Reaches Top 20
November 2019 Hacker News Hiring Trends
November Highlights
GraphQL continues a fast rise that mirrors what popular JavaScript frameworks have done. November marks GraphQL's first time in the top 20 of techologies mentioned on the Hacker News "Who is Hiring?" thread. GraphQL was first mentioned in September, 2015 and joins TypeScript as one of the newest entries in the Top 20 over the past year.
At the top of rankings, React won again, extending its win streak to 30th month in a row. A full 2 and a half years and running as the top tech. The Top 3 remain unchanged with Python #2 and AWS #3. JavaScript rose 2 spots to #4 and PostgreSQL kept its spot at #5.
| 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 |
| JavaScript | 4 | 6 | +2 | 5 | +1 |
| Postgresql | 5 | 5 | 0 | 7 | +2 |
| DevOps | 6 | 8 | +2 | 9 | +3 |
| node.js | 7 | 7 | 0 | 6 | -1 |
| Full Stack | 8 | 4 | -4 | 3 | -5 |
| Java | 9 | 15 | +6 | 10 | +1 |
| TypeScript | 10 | 11 | +1 | 24 | +14 |
| golang | 11 | 10 | -1 | 8 | -3 |
| Machine Learning | 12 | 9 | -3 | 11 | -1 |
| Ruby | 13 | 18 | +5 | 14 | +1 |
| iOS | 14 | 16 | +2 | 17 | +3 |
| Docker | 15 | 12 | -3 | 12 | -3 |
| Android | 16 | 14 | -2 | 16 | 0 |
| Rails | 17 | 17 | 0 | 15 | -2 |
| Kubernetes | 18 | 13 | -5 | 13 | -5 |
| GraphQL | 19 | 24 | +5 | 30 | +11 |
| AI | 20 | 19 | -1 | 20 | 0 |
| Tech | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CloudFormation | 5 | 106 | 0 | 239 | +133 |
| Scrum | 7 | 90 | 2 | 149 | +59 |
| WordPress | 5 | 103 | 2 | 145 | +42 |
| Phoenix | 10 | 72 | 5 | 112 | +40 |
| Laravel | 6 | 92 | 3 | 129 | +37 |
| EC2 | 6 | 91 | 3 | 128 | +37 |
| Objective-C | 12 | 67 | 6 | 100 | +33 |
| Apollo | 12 | 65 | 6 | 96 | +31 |
| Spring | 15 | 55 | 9 | 84 | +29 |
| SQL Server | 6 | 95 | 4 | 124 | +29 |
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