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Python wraps up a strong year, React reaches top 5

Python capped off an impressive year, winning for the 9th time in 2015. This is actually really interesting since it's not used for mobile apps, or client-side on web apps, which are the 2 other dominant trends of the year. Server-side developers and data scientists can take heart that much work remains out there.

Speaking of client-side, the quick-rising React joined the top 5 this month, notable for the fact that it just started showing up in postings early last year, while the other top technologies have been around since the hiring threads started in 2011.

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Tech Rank Last Month Change Last Year Change
Python 1 3 +2 2 +1
JavaScript 2 1 -1 1 -1
Android 3 2 -1 8 +5
iOS 4 4 0 3 -1
React 5 7 +2 49 +44
AngularJS 6 11 +5 4 -2
Full Stack 7 9 +2 16 +9
Machine Learning 8 16 +8 18 +10
Java 9 5 -4 12 +3
node.js 10 10 0 9 -1
Rails 11 6 -5 5 -6
Ruby 12 13 +1 6 -6
passionate 13 15 +2 7 -6
Postgresql 14 17 +3 14 0
AWS 15 8 -7 11 -4
DevOps 16 14 -2 24 +8
Front End 17 12 -5 15 -2
Redis 18 19 +1 22 +4
Docker 19 20 +1 44 +25
Open Source 20 28 +8 25 +5
Tech Mentions Rank Last Year Mentions Last Year Rank Change
AI 5 70 0 220 +150
ES6 10 49 1 152 +103
WebGL 6 65 1 153 +88
Microservices 8 54 2 132 +78
golang 13 40 4 97 +57
NLP 5 76 3 123 +47
React 50 5 18 49 +44
Kafka 12 42 6 84 +42
Haskell 9 52 4 94 +42
Meteor 5 69 4 100 +31
Tech Mentions Rank Last Year Mentions Last Year Rank Change
S3 1 145 8 78 -67
EC2 2 114 15 53 -61
Objective-C 3 98 20 40 -58
XML 1 119 10 63 -56
App Engine 1 137 6 85 -52
Celery 1 141 5 91 -50
memcached 1 128 7 80 -48
LAMP 1 121 7 81 -40
jQuery 6 68 32 30 -38
WordPress 1 123 6 86 -37