February 2018 Hacker News Hiring Trends
As React wins its ninth month in a row, it appears that we're settling in for a bit of stability at the top of the rankings. The one trend of note in the top 10 is Postgresql entering the top 5, but it has been there before, so it's not a strong threat to keep climbing higher.
Total postings for February were down nearly 20% from last February's all time high of 1008 postings. But, February was still up 15% over January, so no serious sign of any hiring slowness in 2018.
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, SQL Server and Oracle
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
Compare Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos and Vagrant
| 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 | 7 | +3 |
| Postgresql | 5 | 9 | +4 | 15 | +10 |
| Full Stack | 6 | 6 | 0 | 4 | -2 |
| node.js | 7 | 5 | -2 | 5 | -2 |
| Java | 8 | 7 | -1 | 6 | -2 |
| Machine Learning | 9 | 10 | +1 | 11 | +2 |
| Ruby | 10 | 11 | +1 | 9 | -1 |
| DevOps | 11 | 12 | +1 | 8 | -3 |
| Rails | 12 | 8 | -4 | 10 | -2 |
| iOS | 13 | 13 | 0 | 13 | 0 |
| golang | 14 | 14 | 0 | 14 | 0 |
| Docker | 15 | 16 | +1 | 16 | +1 |
| Android | 16 | 15 | -1 | 12 | -4 |
| api | 17 | 23 | +6 | 21 | +4 |
| AngularJS | 18 | 17 | -1 | 17 | -1 |
| Django | 19 | 30 | +11 | 30 | +11 |
| Data Science | 20 | 28 | +8 | 29 | +9 |
| Tech | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vue | 23 | 48 | 3 | 154 | +106 |
| LAMP | 5 | 112 | 0 | 208 | +96 |
| Lambda | 14 | 63 | 5 | 119 | +56 |
| Bootstrap | 13 | 66 | 5 | 117 | +51 |
| Kotlin | 11 | 77 | 4 | 125 | +48 |
| TensorFlow | 12 | 70 | 5 | 116 | +46 |
| Blockchain | 20 | 51 | 8 | 94 | +43 |
| Laravel | 10 | 83 | 5 | 120 | +37 |
| jenkins | 14 | 62 | 7 | 96 | +34 |
| Bitcoin | 5 | 107 | 3 | 138 | +31 |