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Startups Love JavaScript

February saw a big bump in job postings, reaching an all-time high for whoishiring. But, even with the large number of postings, overall trends largely remained the same with Python, React and JavaScript taking the top 3 spots again, mirroring January's results.

The most identifiable trends at this point is in the area of containers with Docker and Kubernetes seeing big jumps over the last year, fueled by the rise of micrsoservices.

Programming Languages

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Server-side Frameworks

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Node.js beat out Rails for the fifth straight month, with perhaps its largest margin of victory too.

JavaScript Frameworks

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SQL Databases

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NoSQL Databases

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Big Data

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Messaging

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DevOps Tools

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Virtualization and Container Tools

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Total Postings Trend

Rankings and movers

Tech Rank Last Month Change Last Year Change
Python 1 1 0 1 0
React 2 2 0 3 +1
JavaScript 3 3 0 2 -1
Full Stack 4 5 +1 6 +2
Java 5 9 +4 11 +6
node.js 6 6 0 10 +4
AWS 7 4 -3 4 -3
Ruby 8 10 +2 9 +1
Rails 9 7 -2 7 -2
Machine Learning 10 8 -2 14 +4
DevOps 11 12 +1 15 +4
Android 12 14 +2 8 -4
iOS 13 13 0 5 -8
Docker 14 17 +3 18 +4
Postgresql 15 11 -4 13 -2
AngularJS 16 19 +3 12 -4
passionate 17 15 -2 16 -1
linux 18 20 +2 34 +16
Open Source 19 16 -3 21 +2
api 20 21 +1 32 +12
Tech Mentions Rank Last Year Mentions Last Year Rank Change
Rust 6 99 0 185 +86
Kinesis 5 106 0 190 +84
Akka 7 91 1 160 +69
Kubernetes 37 35 4 103 +68
Azure 12 72 3 124 +52
Microservices 35 37 7 78 +41
TypeScript 15 64 4 105 +41
ASP.NET MVC 6 98 2 132 +34
Redshift 8 85 3 117 +32
Elixir 10 77 3 108 +31
Tech Mentions Rank Last Year Mentions Last Year Rank Change
Flux 3 139 7 81 -58
Pandas 4 120 7 74 -46
CoffeeScript 6 97 14 52 -45
statistics 8 82 15 47 -35
Bootstrap 4 113 6 82 -31
jQuery 9 80 15 49 -31
D3.js 8 83 14 55 -28
Sass 8 86 12 59 -27
WordPress 4 109 6 86 -23
Cassandra 13 67 16 44 -23