Analyzed 7M developer jobs — here are the most in-demand programming languages
https://www.devjobsscanner.com/blog/top-8-most-demanded-languages-in-2022/
If you're thinking about learning to code (or you just want to branch out), here are the most in-demand programming languages right now. Data is from October 2021 to June 2022.
- JS/TS
- Python
- Java
- C#
- PHP
- C/C++
- Ruby
- GO
- SQL
- ...
Javascript is quickly but surely taking over :) I think the rising popularity of typescript helped a lot.
Yeah, TS probably plays a big role
No surprise here at all. JS/TS are the king of coding right now given it's isomorphic (usable on front-end and back-end) ability.
Super curious how you actually do this analysis - seems like many major job boards have strong bot/scraping detection.
If you try and type "Ruby is dead" into Google, you'll find hundreds of posts from 1-7 years ago touting that nobody will use Ruby and Rails in the near future.
And here it is, standing proudly at the 7th place.
Just goes to remind you that, if you create something that people find really valuable (Ruby/Rails is great for creating stuff fast and a lot of IHers here use it), it has a good chance to stand the test of time.
Or becomes legacy code you begrudgingly need to maintain :lolsob:
Surprised that GO made the list! 🤔
Yes, GO and Rust might not be on top of this list but they are high paying then others and trending as well.
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Yeah that seems crazy to me too
Crazy how concentrated this is. The top 3 make up 69% of the most in-demand languages. It's like looking at a wealth distribution chart
I need to get into TS. My tech stack for the wbe space is pretty basic (Hugo + JS). I need to start using new techs
Haven't seen #10 before
PHP & Ruby will never die.
Never say never!
Haha.
Someday, right? I don't know any young, new developers learning php or ruby
But there are. PHP is very popular especially here in the third world. ;)
When I wanted to learn how to code, this infographic was really helpful for me. It details most of these languages, along with pros/cons, etc.
Rather important to note that this is an analysis of jobs that are listed. The good jobs are typically not listed because the folks that get them are recruited. There's a strong inverse correlation between skillset and time spent on job sites.
JavaScript jobs are like used CDs: lots are available for cheap. If you aspire to the bargain bin, don't be shocked when you get there.
Meanwhile, roughly 75% of the value created by the top 50 Y-Combinator companies was created by the subset which cite Ruby as their primary language. Note that this doesn't cover Shopify, GitHub or so many other multi-unicorns. The data is also two years old, and the spike has actually gone up, since.
You can't take a sample of a smaller sample and then try to overlay the finding across all companies/startups. Ruby just happened to be popular at the time of the rise of these companies. There is nothing else to make of that.
Yes, that's exactly right: there is absolutely nothing to the rumors about Rails being massively more productive than competing frameworks, all of which seem to measure themselves by how many Rails features they can emulate.
As you were.
Good points - thanks!