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
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Nice to have skills
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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
- PHP (707 jobs)
- Java (674 jobs)
- Objective-C (495 jobs)
- Java (Android) (276 jobs)
- SQL (258 jobs)
Top 5 based on all skills mentioned in linked page
- JavaScript (1196 jobs)
- PHP (1064 jobs)
- Java (948 jobs)
- SQL (890 jobs)
- 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?
