"Who is Hiring?" postings bounce back to twelve month high (May 2024)
May 2024 Hacker News Hiring Trends
May Highlights
After a few months away, it's time to check back in on the "Ask HN: Who is Hiring?" trends. In May's thread, there are signs of growth again, a 35% improvement over April in fact. May saw the first 400+ posting month since May 2023. Not all that surpisingly, the rise of AI appears to be driving the growh. AI is mentioned in nearly 25% of job postings now and is the top technology term.
Top 10 Programming Languages
In the category of programming languages, Python and TypeScript still reign supreme. At #3 adn #4, Go and Rust show strength. Meanwhile Ruby and Java contine to slide further down the rankings.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
As mentioned earlier, AI is driving much of the growth in job postings in the HN thread. When I first saw that it reached nearly %25 of postings, I was a little skeptical. Upon browsing the thread, it quickly becomes clear that this is the current state of things.
Rankings and movers
| Tech | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Remote | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Senior | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Full Stack | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| AI | 4 | 5 | +1 | 11 | +7 |
| Onsite | 5 | 4 | -1 | 6 | +1 |
| Back End | 6 | 6 | 0 | 5 | -1 |
| React | 7 | 8 | +1 | 7 | 0 |
| Python | 8 | 7 | -1 | 4 | -4 |
| TypeScript | 9 | 10 | +1 | 9 | 0 |
| Hybrid | 10 | 11 | +1 | 13 | +3 |
| Front End | 11 | 9 | -2 | 10 | -1 |
| Machine Learning | 12 | 12 | 0 | 8 | -4 |
| AWS | 13 | 13 | 0 | 18 | +5 |
| Cloud | 14 | 15 | +1 | 12 | -2 |
| Staff | 15 | 18 | +3 | 20 | +5 |
| Postgresql | 16 | 17 | +1 | 14 | -2 |
| golang | 17 | 14 | -3 | 16 | -1 |
| Security | 18 | 19 | +1 | 19 | +1 |
| Open Source | 19 | 16 | -3 | 15 | -4 |
| Rust | 20 | 22 | +2 | 23 | +3 |
| Tech | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | 7 | 57 | 2 | 119 | +62 |
| ClickHouse | 7 | 55 | 2 | 107 | +52 |
| ETL | 7 | 56 | 3 | 93 | +37 |
| React Native | 11 | 38 | 5 | 66 | +28 |
| Snowflake | 7 | 54 | 4 | 79 | +25 |
| Blockchain | 10 | 43 | 5 | 67 | +24 |
| Distributed Systems | 13 | 33 | 9 | 52 | +19 |
| PHP | 6 | 62 | 4 | 78 | +16 |
| Fintech | 10 | 41 | 8 | 55 | +14 |
| Processing | 9 | 45 | 8 | 58 | +13 |
