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Highlights

For May, at the top of the rankings, everything stayed pretty much the same as it was in April. Remote hiring is still very popular, with 75% of postings including it. On the techonology front, React is still the only tech term in the top 5, with about 26% of postings including it.

There is one new entrant in the Top 20. Terraform, the popular Infrastructure as code (IaC) tool from HashiCorp, had a strong month and makes its debut in the Top 20. AI is back in the in the Top #20 after briefly dropping lower in previous months.

Of note for technology on the way down or out, Hadoop logged 0 mentions in May, the second time in 3 months. The platform that was on the forefront of Big Data a decade ago, has fallen out of favor.

Total Postings

May has been a tumultous month in the software hiring market. With layoffs and hiring freezes at several companies, the near-term future faces uncertainty. May's Ask HN: Who is Hiring? did see a slight bump with total postings up 4% over April. But, with the bulk of the postings coming earlier in the month of May, that growth may well have dried up in the weeks since. With the June thread kicking off in a couple days, we'll see soon enough how the overall hiring market is impacting this specific niche.

Top 10 Programming Languages

TypeScript is the Top Programming Language for the second month in a row, having dethroned Python in April. Python and Go remain in strong positions at #2 and #3 respectively. Kotlin is back in the Top 10 this month, knocking out C#.

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

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Rankings and movers

Tech Rank Last Month Change Last Year Change
Remote 1 1 0 1 0
Senior 2 2 0 2 0
React 3 3 0 4 +1
Back End 4 4 0 3 -1
Front End 5 5 0 5 0
TypeScript 6 6 0 10 +4
Python 7 7 0 8 +1
Full Stack 8 10 +2 7 -1
Postgresql 9 8 -1 9 0
AWS 10 9 -1 6 -4
golang 11 11 0 12 +1
DevOps 12 13 +1 16 +4
Machine Learning 13 14 +1 19 +6
node.js 14 12 -2 11 -3
Kubernetes 15 17 +2 18 +3
JavaScript 16 16 0 14 -2
Rails 17 15 -2 13 -4
AI 18 22 +4 26 +8
Ruby 19 20 +1 15 -4
Terraform 20 26 +6 31 +11
Tech Mentions Rank Last Year Mentions Last Year Rank Change
FastAPI 7 85 1 193 +108
WebRTC 5 102 1 189 +87
ClickHouse 9 76 3 137 +61
F# 7 84 3 142 +58
web3 10 72 4 128 +56
PyTorch 10 69 4 121 +52
SQL Server 5 100 3 144 +44
Bitcoin 6 94 3 138 +44
Ember 6 97 3 136 +39
Robotics 18 56 7 94 +38
Tech Mentions Rank Last Year Mentions Last Year Rank Change
Hadoop 0 222 5 105 -117
Shell 1 185 6 95 -90
Aurora 1 176 6 97 -79
WebGL 3 143 11 77 -66
DynamoDB 2 155 7 93 -62
Webpack 1 168 5 111 -57
Apollo 4 116 14 69 -47
ECS 3 127 8 83 -44
CloudFormation 3 130 7 89 -41
Bash 3 136 6 98 -38