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May Highlights

Change is happening fast in the software developer hiring landscape. Let's jump in and take a look at the results from May's Hacker News "Ask HN: Who is hiring?" thread.

First, in a positive sign, there were 431 postings (as of May 21), which marks a 12% increase over April. April's total was the lowest in over 7 years, so it's good to see some growth in job opportunites.

Remote Work

The most significant change for May's "Who is hiring?" thread may be the ever-evolving situation of remote work. There was a big drop in remote positions, down to just over 50%, a drop of 11% from April. Hybrid is picking up the difference for the most part still.

Remote Work

Compare Remote vs Onsite vs Hybrid

Top 10 Programming Languages

The Top 3 for May remain the same, Python, TypeScript, and Go. But, Rust gets back to #4, matching its all time high. Also getting back into the Top 10 is Swift, at #10. Swift has been been in the Top 10. I can't recall the last time it has been there.

Compare Top 10 Programming Languages

AI

In the AI category, probably the most covered technology of 2023, it is hard to say with certainty if there are significant changes. Mentions of Machine Learning were down a bit, while AI was up a bit.

Compare AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and ChatGPT

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 3 0
Python 4 7 +3 8 +4
Back End 5 4 -1 5 0
Onsite 6 8 +2 9 +3
React 7 5 -2 4 -3
Machine Learning 8 10 +2 12 +4
TypeScript 9 9 0 7 -2
Front End 10 6 -4 6 -4
AI 11 14 +3 24 +13
Cloud 12 13 +1 13 +1
Hybrid 13 12 -1 21 +8
Postgresql 14 16 +2 10 -4
Open Source 15 17 +2 20 +5
golang 16 18 +2 15 -1
AWS 17 11 -6 11 -6
DevOps 18 19 +1 16 -2
Next.js 19 15 -4 14 -5
Security 20 20 0 17 -3
Tech Mentions Rank Last Year Mentions Last Year Rank Change
NLP 6 63 6 100 +37
Git 8 60 9 83 +23
SQL 17 28 22 51 +23
Azure 10 50 11 72 +22
REST 12 42 17 64 +22
AI 51 11 57 24 +13
Swift 13 41 21 53 +12
MySQL 8 57 14 67 +10
Lambda 5 68 10 77 +9
GitHub 24 21 45 30 +9
Tech Mentions Rank Last Year Mentions Last Year Rank Change
Bitcoin 0 254 6 94 -160
Tailwind 0 230 6 96 -134
F# 0 190 7 90 -100
Ethereum 0 191 5 110 -81
PyTorch 1 156 10 78 -78
Spring 1 159 8 86 -73
GitLab 1 140 11 71 -69
AngularJS 2 115 23 48 -67
Haskell 1 142 9 79 -63
FastAPI 1 137 7 91 -46