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April Highlights

The main theme from April's Ask HN: Who is hiring? thread is that the downward trend on postings continues. April had 384 job postings, down almost 13% from March. This is the lowest total since December of 2015. Year over year, April 2023 is down 51% from April 2022.

Remote Work

The back to the office trend is also picking up, though still slowly, and far from pre-COVID levels. Remote jobs dropped another 2.5% in April, down to 61.7% of all job postings. Meanwhile, Onsite jobs rose from 16.6% to 18.8%.

Hiring Trends: Remote vs Onsite vs Hybrid

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Top 10 Programming Languages

Python, TypeScript, and Go are again 1,2,3 in the programming language rankings.

Top 10 Programming Languages

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AI

AI is arguably the hottest trend in tech, garerning a large amount of Software Developers' attention. This trend is evident in the Hacker News job postings as well. Machine Learning is up over 15% of postings and is the tenth most popular term overall while AI jumps from 2th to 14th ranking of total mentions over the past year.

Trends for AI vs Machine Learning vs Deep Learning vs ChatGPT

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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
Full Stack 3 3 0 5 +2
Back End 4 4 0 4 0
React 5 5 0 3 -2
Front End 6 7 +1 6 0
Python 7 6 -1 9 +2
Onsite 8 8 0 8 0
TypeScript 9 9 0 7 -2
Machine Learning 10 10 0 15 +5
AWS 11 11 0 11 0
Hybrid 12 15 +3 27 +15
Cloud 13 12 -1 12 -1
AI 14 14 0 25 +11
Postgresql 15 17 +2 10 -5
Next.js 16 13 -3 17 +1
Open Source 17 16 -1 18 +1
golang 18 18 0 13 -5
DevOps 19 19 0 19 0
Security 20 20 0 16 -4
Tech Mentions Rank Last Year Mentions Last Year Rank Change
Pandas 5 73 2 151 +78
Grafana 5 65 3 127 +62
Big Data 5 69 4 120 +51
NLP 5 66 5 101 +35
gRPC 5 70 6 99 +29
Kotlin 12 43 16 60 +17
Elixir 7 58 10 75 +17
Hybrid 46 12 47 27 +15
Redux 7 57 13 70 +13
Mongodb 10 48 16 61 +13
Tech Mentions Rank Last Year Mentions Last Year Rank Change
Laravel 0 254 5 108 -146
statistics 0 224 6 97 -127
web3 1 179 9 80 -99
Puppet 0 186 6 93 -93
VR 1 178 7 88 -90
F# 0 193 5 106 -87
Elasticsearch 1 142 18 56 -86
Spring 1 169 7 90 -79
PyTorch 1 165 6 94 -71
ETL 1 144 8 84 -60