June 2017 - Tracking the most popular programming languages, databases and software development tools in whoishiring discussion threads.
Halfway through the year and there is now a new champion, as React becomes the most popular tech skill companies are hiriing for. This is the second victory for React, it also won last November. Python drops to second place after a long string of victories. JavaScript retained its usual third place finish.
Overall, June was a weak start to the summer hiring season, with postings down 15% from May and 5% from last June.
Compare JavaScript, Python, Ruby and Java
Compare C++, Scala, Clojure and Go
Compare Rails, Node.js, PHP and Django
Compare React, AngularJS, Vue.js and Ember
Compare Postgresql, MySQL and SQL Server
Compare Mongodb, Elasticsearch, Cassandra and Riak
Compare Storm, Hadoop and Spark
Compare Kafka, RabbitMQ and ActiveMQ
Compare Chef, Puppet, Ansible and the DevOps term itself
| Tech | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| React | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | +1 |
| Python | 2 | 1 | -1 | 1 | -1 |
| JavaScript | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Full Stack | 4 | 4 | 0 | 9 | +5 |
| AWS | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 | -1 |
| Postgresql | 6 | 7 | +1 | 13 | +7 |
| Machine Learning | 7 | 6 | -1 | 16 | +9 |
| Ruby | 8 | 11 | +3 | 14 | +6 |
| Rails | 9 | 10 | +1 | 5 | -4 |
| node.js | 10 | 9 | -1 | 6 | -4 |
| Java | 11 | 8 | -3 | 8 | -3 |
| DevOps | 12 | 12 | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| passionate | 13 | 14 | +1 | 7 | -6 |
| iOS | 14 | 15 | +1 | 10 | -4 |
| Docker | 15 | 17 | +2 | 17 | +2 |
| AngularJS | 16 | 13 | -3 | 15 | -1 |
| Android | 17 | 16 | -1 | 11 | -6 |
| api | 18 | 18 | 0 | 25 | +7 |
| Open Source | 19 | 26 | +7 | 18 | -1 |
| Front End | 20 | 22 | +2 | 20 | 0 |
| Tech | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SQS | 5 | 103 | 0 | 207 | +104 |
| Lambda | 7 | 87 | 1 | 175 | +88 |
| Kinesis | 7 | 90 | 1 | 174 | +84 |
| Sidekiq | 6 | 93 | 1 | 165 | +72 |
| statistics | 5 | 104 | 1 | 170 | +66 |
| Rust | 7 | 86 | 2 | 143 | +57 |
| EC2 | 12 | 64 | 3 | 115 | +51 |
| S3 | 10 | 76 | 3 | 126 | +50 |
| Hive | 6 | 91 | 2 | 140 | +49 |
| Express | 11 | 71 | 3 | 118 | +47 |
| Tech | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pandas | 1 | 158 | 6 | 88 | -70 |
| Laravel | 1 | 149 | 7 | 86 | -63 |
| Objective-C | 3 | 119 | 13 | 63 | -56 |
| Flux | 3 | 121 | 8 | 80 | -41 |
| memcached | 3 | 123 | 7 | 84 | -39 |
| App Engine | 3 | 122 | 6 | 87 | -35 |
| Scrum | 3 | 127 | 5 | 92 | -35 |
| Puppet | 3 | 118 | 7 | 85 | -33 |
| CoffeeScript | 4 | 108 | 9 | 77 | -31 |
| WebGL | 5 | 107 | 8 | 78 | -29 |