October 2019 Hacker News Hiring Trends
Fall hiring season was in full swing in October's "Ask HN: Who is hiring?" thread with the usual technologies in demand. React ran away with the top spot again, showing no sign of weakness as it beat Python by 8 percentage points and won for the 29th month in a row.
Overall, there was not a lot of movement in the top rankings. The top 3 remain unchnaged from last month. TypeScript did slide back a few spots, while Full Stack and JavaScript reclaimed some ground.
| Tech | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| React | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Python | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| AWS | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | +1 |
| Full Stack | 4 | 7 | +3 | 7 | +3 |
| Postgresql | 5 | 5 | 0 | 6 | +1 |
| JavaScript | 6 | 9 | +3 | 3 | -3 |
| node.js | 7 | 6 | -1 | 5 | -2 |
| DevOps | 8 | 4 | -4 | 10 | +2 |
| Machine Learning | 9 | 10 | +1 | 9 | 0 |
| golang | 10 | 11 | +1 | 8 | -2 |
| TypeScript | 11 | 8 | -3 | 24 | +13 |
| Docker | 12 | 14 | +2 | 14 | +2 |
| Kubernetes | 13 | 12 | -1 | 17 | +4 |
| Android | 14 | 16 | +2 | 13 | -1 |
| Java | 15 | 13 | -2 | 11 | -4 |
| iOS | 16 | 19 | +3 | 16 | 0 |
| Rails | 17 | 17 | 0 | 15 | -2 |
| Ruby | 18 | 15 | -3 | 12 | -6 |
| AI | 19 | 18 | -1 | 38 | +19 |
| C++ | 20 | 23 | +3 | 18 | -2 |
| Tech | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ionic | 5 | 104 | 0 | 204 | +100 |
| CloudFormation | 5 | 99 | 2 | 160 | +61 |
| PyTorch | 5 | 107 | 2 | 158 | +51 |
| Grafana | 5 | 102 | 2 | 150 | +48 |
| DynamoDB | 6 | 92 | 3 | 136 | +44 |
| ClojureScript | 6 | 89 | 4 | 132 | +43 |
| Apollo | 7 | 87 | 4 | 127 | +40 |
| Puppet | 7 | 82 | 6 | 112 | +30 |
| Kotlin | 26 | 36 | 17 | 66 | +30 |
| AR | 9 | 74 | 6 | 101 | +27 |
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