Number of job postings climbing: up 20% in last two months

Top 10 Programming Languages

Python, TypeScript, and Go remain in the Top 3 spots. One notable change in November is C++, jumping into the fourth spot. Not bad for the nearly 40 year old language.

1. Python
2. TypeScript
3. Go
4. C++
5. Ruby
6. Java
7. JavaScript
8. C
8. Rust
10. SQL

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

While not a big jump from month-to-month in November, AI still shows its strength as a big mover this year. AI edged closer to being mentioned in 20% of postings. AI has nearly doubled in the past 12 months.

Remote Work

Remote positions accounded for 61% of postings in November, getting back over 60% after a slight dip in October to 57%. Remote positions are still in the general area of where they've been for the past 6 months. Onsite and Hybrid have remained relatively steady.

Specialization

Specicalization keywords track the growth of different areas of engineering focus including Full-Stack, Front-end, and Back-end developers. Front-end in particular has been seeing steady drops over the past couple years. It peaked at just over 25% in January, 2022, but has dropped to 13% in November, 2023, a drop of 12%. Back-end has also been trending down over the last year with its own 10% drop from 28% to 18%. This could be a result of the industry broadening into more types of development. AI/ML and Data management come to mind as growing areas of focus and specialization.

Engineering Levels

While the title of Senior Software Engineer has been a consistent level across the industry for more than a decade, the titles of Staff Software Engineer and Principal Software Engineer (often referred to as Staff+ in many books and articles) have emerged over the last few years. From the data, we can see the growth in Staff level positions has really picked up over the last year, reaching 10% in October and falling back slightly to abouto 8% in November.