May 2018 Hacker News Hiring Trends
In another sign of JavaScript's ubiquity, Node.js became the second JavaScript related technology to surpass mentions of JavaScript itself. Node.js took the #4 spot in May, its first time in the top 5, and just ahead of JavaScript. React was the first to do so, and React also continued its streak of wins, taking the top spot for the 12th month in a row, sustaining its rank for a complete year.
May also marked an all time high in total postings, with more than 1000 postings for only the 2nd time ever and was up 17% over last May.
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| Tech | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| React | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | +1 |
| Python | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | -1 |
| AWS | 3 | 4 | +1 | 5 | +2 |
| node.js | 4 | 8 | +4 | 9 | +5 |
| JavaScript | 5 | 3 | -2 | 3 | -2 |
| Full Stack | 6 | 5 | -1 | 4 | -2 |
| Postgresql | 7 | 7 | 0 | 6 | -1 |
| Java | 8 | 12 | +4 | 8 | 0 |
| Machine Learning | 9 | 6 | -3 | 7 | -2 |
| Ruby | 10 | 11 | +1 | 11 | +1 |
| DevOps | 11 | 10 | -1 | 12 | +1 |
| golang | 12 | 9 | -3 | 13 | +1 |
| Rails | 13 | 13 | 0 | 10 | -3 |
| Docker | 14 | 14 | 0 | 17 | +3 |
| Android | 15 | 16 | +1 | 16 | +1 |
| iOS | 16 | 15 | -1 | 14 | -2 |
| Kubernetes | 17 | 20 | +3 | 34 | +17 |
| AngularJS | 18 | 21 | +3 | 15 | -3 |
| Data Science | 19 | 17 | -2 | 32 | +13 |
| api | 20 | 18 | -2 | 18 | -2 |
| Tech | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kotlin | 24 | 56 | 2 | 154 | +98 |
| Ethereum | 11 | 83 | 1 | 178 | +95 |
| Blockchain | 38 | 35 | 7 | 96 | +61 |
| Express | 14 | 70 | 4 | 126 | +56 |
| Shell | 6 | 109 | 2 | 157 | +48 |
| Rust | 16 | 63 | 6 | 110 | +47 |
| Bitcoin | 8 | 92 | 3 | 136 | +44 |
| Lambda | 17 | 59 | 7 | 102 | +43 |
| Vue | 26 | 51 | 8 | 89 | +38 |
| ClojureScript | 8 | 98 | 3 | 135 | +37 |
| Tech | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenStack | 1 | 188 | 6 | 107 | -81 |
| CoffeeScript | 1 | 176 | 7 | 99 | -77 |
| Celery | 2 | 149 | 11 | 76 | -73 |
| Akka | 3 | 139 | 10 | 81 | -58 |
| Varnish | 1 | 168 | 5 | 114 | -54 |
| Mesos | 2 | 150 | 7 | 103 | -47 |
| SQS | 3 | 134 | 8 | 92 | -42 |
| Kinesis | 4 | 130 | 8 | 91 | -39 |
| SQL Server | 4 | 129 | 8 | 93 | -36 |
| RabbitMQ | 11 | 87 | 21 | 52 | -35 |