October 2018 Hacker News Hiring Trends
React is still on top after a whopping seventeen months, but it did have its closest finish in almost a year, beating second place Python by just over a percentage point. JavaScript made a strong jump to third place with AWS and Node.js rounding out the Top 5 for October.
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| Tech | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| React | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Python | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| JavaScript | 3 | 6 | +3 | 3 | 0 |
| AWS | 4 | 3 | -1 | 4 | 0 |
| node.js | 5 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Postgresql | 6 | 9 | +3 | 9 | +3 |
| Full Stack | 7 | 4 | -3 | 7 | 0 |
| golang | 8 | 7 | -1 | 14 | +6 |
| Machine Learning | 9 | 8 | -1 | 8 | -1 |
| DevOps | 10 | 10 | 0 | 11 | +1 |
| Java | 11 | 11 | 0 | 6 | -5 |
| Ruby | 12 | 12 | 0 | 10 | -2 |
| Android | 13 | 14 | +1 | 16 | +3 |
| Docker | 14 | 13 | -1 | 13 | -1 |
| Rails | 15 | 15 | 0 | 12 | -3 |
| iOS | 16 | 17 | +1 | 15 | -1 |
| Kubernetes | 17 | 18 | +1 | 30 | +13 |
| C++ | 18 | 16 | -2 | 20 | +2 |
| Open Source | 19 | 27 | +8 | 23 | +4 |
| Front End | 20 | 21 | +1 | 19 | -1 |
| Tech | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electron | 7 | 97 | 1 | 178 | +81 |
| ECS | 6 | 113 | 1 | 183 | +70 |
| statistics | 6 | 105 | 3 | 150 | +45 |
| Assembly | 5 | 118 | 2 | 162 | +44 |
| Terraform | 26 | 46 | 11 | 86 | +40 |
| Tableau | 5 | 117 | 2 | 157 | +40 |
| GCP | 19 | 61 | 8 | 100 | +39 |
| Puppet | 6 | 111 | 3 | 147 | +36 |
| Scrum | 8 | 89 | 5 | 125 | +36 |
| Vue | 36 | 35 | 16 | 68 | +33 |
| Tech | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lua | 0 | 237 | 5 | 123 | -114 |
| XML | 0 | 222 | 5 | 122 | -100 |
| SQL Server | 2 | 151 | 10 | 88 | -63 |
| LAMP | 1 | 176 | 5 | 116 | -60 |
| Angular 2 | 2 | 154 | 9 | 98 | -56 |
| D3.js | 5 | 116 | 13 | 76 | -40 |
| Storm | 2 | 153 | 5 | 113 | -40 |
| Web Services | 7 | 93 | 20 | 55 | -38 |
| ETL | 6 | 107 | 14 | 70 | -37 |
| EC2 | 3 | 139 | 7 | 104 | -35 |