January 2018 Hacker News Hiring Trends
React continues its win streak into the new year with a strong showing again. With 8 wins in a row and another near 25% rate of mention, what will it take for another technology to catch React?
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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 |
| node.js | 5 | 6 | +1 | 5 | 0 |
| Full Stack | 6 | 8 | +2 | 6 | 0 |
| Java | 7 | 11 | +4 | 7 | 0 |
| Rails | 8 | 10 | +2 | 8 | 0 |
| Postgresql | 9 | 5 | -4 | 10 | +1 |
| Machine Learning | 10 | 7 | -3 | 9 | -1 |
| Ruby | 11 | 12 | +1 | 11 | 0 |
| DevOps | 12 | 9 | -3 | 12 | 0 |
| iOS | 13 | 15 | +2 | 14 | +1 |
| golang | 14 | 14 | 0 | 13 | -1 |
| Android | 15 | 17 | +2 | 15 | 0 |
| Docker | 16 | 13 | -3 | 16 | 0 |
| AngularJS | 17 | 22 | +5 | 19 | +2 |
| C++ | 18 | 19 | +1 | 23 | +5 |
| Open Source | 19 | 16 | -3 | 18 | -1 |
| Redis | 20 | 23 | +3 | 17 | -3 |
| Tech | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ethereum | 10 | 72 | 1 | 158 | +86 |
| App Engine | 5 | 100 | 1 | 175 | +75 |
| Blockchain | 17 | 49 | 5 | 118 | +69 |
| Express | 10 | 73 | 3 | 129 | +56 |
| Rust | 14 | 58 | 5 | 112 | +54 |
| Babel | 7 | 90 | 2 | 141 | +51 |
| Kotlin | 9 | 75 | 4 | 121 | +46 |
| AI | 36 | 22 | 11 | 65 | +43 |
| haproxy | 6 | 96 | 3 | 137 | +41 |
| zookeeper | 5 | 99 | 2 | 139 | +40 |
| Tech | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CouchDB | 0 | 206 | 5 | 107 | -99 |
| InfluxDB | 1 | 172 | 5 | 111 | -61 |
| Asp | 4 | 116 | 12 | 59 | -57 |
| WebSockets | 1 | 166 | 5 | 114 | -52 |
| memcached | 2 | 142 | 6 | 91 | -51 |
| CoffeeScript | 1 | 147 | 6 | 96 | -51 |
| Celery | 1 | 150 | 5 | 104 | -46 |
| TDD | 3 | 129 | 7 | 83 | -46 |
| Hadoop | 6 | 98 | 15 | 53 | -45 |
| Selenium | 1 | 153 | 5 | 108 | -45 |