New record for job postings
June 2021 Hacker News Hiring Trends
June Highlights
Hiring is on fire for software developers as June set an all time record for the number of postings to the "Who is hiring?" thread with 1040 top level comments. This was only the third time, ever, surpassing 1000 comments and breaks the previous record set in May, 2018. This also nearly doubles the count from one year ago in June, 2020.
Remote Hiring remains hot
In other key trends, Remote hiring remains hot with over 65% of postings supporting remote options. With companies considering a to offices this Summer and Fall, this will be a key signal to keep track of the long-term support for flexible, remote options.
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Rankings and movers
| Tech | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Remote | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Senior | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| React | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Back End | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Front End | 5 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Python | 6 | 8 | +2 | 6 | 0 |
| AWS | 7 | 6 | -1 | 7 | 0 |
| Full Stack | 8 | 7 | -1 | 8 | 0 |
| TypeScript | 9 | 11 | +2 | 11 | +2 |
| Postgresql | 10 | 9 | -1 | 10 | 0 |
| node.js | 11 | 10 | -1 | 12 | +1 |
| golang | 12 | 12 | 0 | 14 | +2 |
| Kubernetes | 13 | 19 | +6 | 18 | +5 |
| Machine Learning | 14 | 18 | +4 | 15 | +1 |
| DevOps | 15 | 16 | +1 | 16 | +1 |
| Rails | 16 | 13 | -3 | 21 | +5 |
| JavaScript | 17 | 14 | -3 | 9 | -8 |
| Ruby | 18 | 15 | -3 | 22 | +4 |
| Java | 19 | 21 | +2 | 13 | -6 |
| iOS | 20 | 17 | -3 | 20 | 0 |
| Tech | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scrum | 10 | 79 | 0 | 219 | +140 |
| ECS | 11 | 75 | 1 | 152 | +77 |
| RDS | 10 | 82 | 1 | 157 | +75 |
| Julia | 5 | 106 | 1 | 172 | +66 |
| statistics | 7 | 94 | 1 | 153 | +59 |
| Lua | 5 | 117 | 1 | 175 | +58 |
| Git | 15 | 71 | 2 | 120 | +49 |
| Microservices | 19 | 60 | 3 | 106 | +46 |
| Sidekiq | 6 | 98 | 1 | 143 | +45 |
| S3 | 7 | 92 | 1 | 137 | +45 |
