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Most requested programming skill last month? JavaScript.

So about this time of the month I’d usually announce the latest monthly programming language trends from Jobs Tractor. Oh, go on then, they’re here http://jobstractor.com/monthly-stats you can read the summary yourself there.

This month though I thought I’d share something different. I recently got Jobs Tractor scraping the links in the tweets and extracting some additional information from them. This includes any programming languages mentioned there, so I can get more reliable filtering for things like Ruby jobs in London etc. I don’t use that data for the monthly stats as currently I make no distinction between

Required skills
1…
2…
3… 

and

Nice to have skills
1…
2…
3…

However, I decided to run those stats whilst was in there anyway this evening. And this is what happens.

Top 5 based on skills mentioned in tweet

  1. PHP                        (707 jobs)
  2. Java                        (674 jobs)
  3. Objective-C          (495 jobs)
  4. Java (Android)  (276 jobs)
  5. SQL                         (258 jobs)

Top 5 based on all skills mentioned in linked page

  1. JavaScript           (1196 jobs)
  2. PHP                        (1064 jobs)
  3. Java                       (948 jobs)
  4. SQL                        (890 jobs)
  5. Objective-C         (704 jobs)

Did you see that? Where did JavaScript come from. Two options as I see it. All those ‘front end’ dev jobs mentioned on twitter call out JavaScript in the actual ad. This seems reasonable but I don’t know if it’d account for a jump to #1 from nowhere in the top five. Alternatively, JavaScript like SQL is another nice-to-have skill mentioned in a large number  of job ads.

I’m still planning to do some more digging into the stats (want to know where all the  ninjas/rockstars are? ;)). Maybe I can shed some more light on this at that time. Meanwhile I was going to suggest if you don’t know JavaScript already you should learn, but it’s a big world and there’s plenty of jobs out there. You’ll be fine. Right?


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