December 2017 Hacker News Hiring Trends
React reached the #1 spot in the rankings back in June, overtaking Python, and has not let go since. December marks React's seventh win in a row. More than just win though, React had its largest margin of victory and came close to being mentioned in 25% of the postings.
In a big jump, PostgreSQL made its debut in the top 5, jumping from #10 to #5. December marks the 3 year anniversary of PostgreSQL passing MySQL as the most popular RDBMS, what it did in December 2014.
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| Tech | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| React | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | +1 |
| Python | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | -1 |
| JavaScript | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| AWS | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Postgresql | 5 | 10 | +5 | 7 | +2 |
| node.js | 6 | 6 | 0 | 5 | -1 |
| Machine Learning | 7 | 8 | +1 | 15 | +8 |
| Full Stack | 8 | 5 | -3 | 9 | +1 |
| DevOps | 9 | 11 | +2 | 13 | +4 |
| Rails | 10 | 12 | +2 | 10 | 0 |
| Ruby | 11 | 9 | -2 | 8 | -3 |
| Java | 12 | 7 | -5 | 6 | -6 |
| Docker | 13 | 13 | 0 | 17 | +4 |
| golang | 14 | 16 | +2 | 11 | -3 |
| iOS | 15 | 14 | -1 | 12 | -3 |
| Android | 16 | 15 | -1 | 14 | -2 |
| Open Source | 17 | 19 | +2 | 21 | +4 |
| C++ | 18 | 23 | +5 | 20 | +2 |
| Data Science | 19 | 17 | -2 | 37 | +18 |
| Agile | 20 | 31 | +11 | 31 | +11 |
| Tech | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| zookeeper | 5 | 102 | 0 | 180 | +78 |
| Rust | 10 | 78 | 1 | 154 | +76 |
| Kotlin | 8 | 87 | 2 | 150 | +63 |
| Express | 9 | 82 | 2 | 139 | +57 |
| Blockchain | 22 | 47 | 5 | 102 | +55 |
| Robotics | 15 | 59 | 4 | 110 | +51 |
| Sidekiq | 5 | 106 | 1 | 157 | +51 |
| Ethereum | 11 | 75 | 3 | 123 | +48 |
| EC2 | 7 | 97 | 2 | 143 | +46 |
| TensorFlow | 11 | 74 | 3 | 119 | +45 |
| Tech | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ASP.NET MVC | 2 | 146 | 7 | 84 | -62 |
| memcached | 2 | 145 | 7 | 85 | -60 |
| HTML5 | 4 | 107 | 16 | 50 | -57 |
| Objective-C | 4 | 115 | 13 | 58 | -57 |
| Asp | 3 | 117 | 11 | 66 | -51 |
| jQuery | 3 | 121 | 9 | 75 | -46 |
| InfluxDB | 2 | 142 | 5 | 104 | -38 |
| Angular 2 | 2 | 138 | 6 | 101 | -37 |
| CoffeeScript | 2 | 132 | 6 | 95 | -37 |
| Embedded Systems | 2 | 141 | 5 | 105 | -36 |