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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.

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

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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.

Compare AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and ChatGPT

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
Tech Mentions Rank Last Year Mentions Last Year Rank Change
SQL 7 58 17 28 -30
Swift 5 64 13 40 -24
Redis 6 60 14 37 -23
Java 9 47 17 29 -18
Azure 5 65 10 49 -16
Android 9 49 15 34 -15
Docker 11 37 17 26 -11
.NET 9 48 14 39 -9
Rails 15 31 18 25 -6
Python 74 8 77 4 -4
Explore the data in the interactive comparison chart above to discover trends for technologies that interest you.