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July Highlights

Welcome back! Hacker News Hiring Trends returns from a Spring Break to get caught up on 2019 technology trends. It may come as a surprise, but React is still on top, running its win streak past 2 years. React first won in June 2017 and has been on top ever since. No other technology has enjoyed such a string of success in the 8 year history of "Who is hiring".

Since it has been a few months since I last posted, it does allow other areas of software development to experience a shake-up and surprisingly programming languages are seeing some interesting trends. Normally, programming languages have been fairly static relative to the faster moving area of frameworks, but a number of programming languages are appearing frequently in job postings. The Go programming language is establishing itself as the third most popular programming language and consistently placing in the Top 10 overall. Rust is another programming language making news as it records its first appearance in the Top 10 programming languages, knocking out C in the process.

Top 10 Programming Languages

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

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Rankings and movers

Tech Rank Last Month Change Last Year Change
React 1 1 0 1 0
Python 2 2 0 2 0
AWS 3 3 0 3 0
Full Stack 4 5 +1 7 +3
JavaScript 5 4 -1 4 -1
Machine Learning 6 7 +1 6 0
golang 7 8 +1 11 +4
node.js 8 9 +1 9 +1
Postgresql 9 6 -3 5 -4
Java 10 10 0 16 +6
DevOps 11 11 0 14 +3
TypeScript 12 15 +3 44 +32
Docker 13 14 +1 8 -5
Ruby 14 16 +2 12 -2
Android 15 17 +2 10 -5
Kubernetes 16 12 -4 17 +1
Rails 17 13 -4 13 -4
iOS 18 18 0 15 -3
AI 19 21 +2 24 +5
C++ 20 22 +2 28 +8
Tech Mentions Rank Last Year Mentions Last Year Rank Change
WordPress 6 99 1 181 +82
WebGL 5 105 1 179 +74
BigQuery 8 83 2 152 +69
Scrum 9 75 3 131 +56
Bitcoin 9 74 4 124 +50
Azure 15 63 6 105 +42
Electron 8 85 4 125 +40
jQuery 6 101 2 141 +40
VR 7 91 4 127 +36
Clojure 14 65 6 100 +35
Tech Mentions Rank Last Year Mentions Last Year Rank Change
Backbone 1 169 7 92 -77
webpack 4 115 16 58 -57
Elm 2 145 7 93 -52
NumPy 1 157 5 112 -45
Perl 2 153 6 108 -45
HTML5 3 130 8 88 -42
Pandas 4 117 9 77 -40
TDD 3 135 7 97 -38
Hadoop 5 104 12 68 -36
Puppet 3 131 6 99 -32