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Every month since 2011, Hacker News runs an "Ask HN: Who is hiring?" thread where each top-level comment is one job posting. Chart how often a language, tool or work-style shows up across those postings - a live read on what the tech job market actually asks for.
tip: use | to OR several terms into one bar, e.g. backend|sre|devops
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Hover (or click) a bar segment to read the job postings that mention that term in that month.
Top categories<br>click any chart to load it above<br>Top 8 locations<br>Where the jobs are - and how remote stacks up against the hubs.
Top 8 languages<br>The most-requested programming languages across every hiring thread.
Top 8 frontend frameworks<br>Frontend frameworks as they rise and fade in job reqs.
Top 8 backend frameworks<br>Backend and web frameworks companies staff up for.
Top 6 mobile<br>Mobile platform and cross-platform demand.
Top 7 databases<br>The data stores in the stacks companies are hiring for.
Top 6 infra & devops<br>The infrastructure and DevOps tools teams hire to run their stacks.
Top 5 clouds<br>Cloud platform demand - AWS versus the rest.
Top 6 functional languages<br>How much the functional world actually hires, year by year.
Top 6 ai & ml skills<br>The machine-learning and generative-AI hiring wave.
Top 5 data engineering<br>The data-pipeline stack companies hire to move and crunch data.
Top 4 low-level skills<br>Bare-metal, embedded and hardware-adjacent hiring.
Popular comparisons<br>head to head - click to load above<br>onsite vs remote vs hybrid<br>The defining shift in how companies hire: onsite leads a decade, remote erupts in 2021, hybrid emerges after.
javascript vs typescript<br>The TypeScript takeover, measured in what companies list as wanted skills.
react vs vue vs angular<br>Frontend framework demand: React pulls decisively ahead of Vue and Angular.
golang vs rust<br>The systems-language race for hires: Go's early lead, Rust's steady climb.
tensorflow vs pytorch<br>The ML-framework changing of the guard, in hiring.
aws vs azure vs gcp<br>Cloud demand: AWS the default, Azure and GCP fighting for a distant second.
mysql vs mongodb vs postgres<br>Database demand, era by era: MySQL, the NoSQL wave, then Postgres on top.
docker vs kubernetes<br>The container handoff: Docker as the entry skill, Kubernetes as the must-have.
python vs java<br>Two old workhorses: Java's enterprise base versus Python's relentless climb.
ruby vs python<br>Ruby's Rails-era heyday versus Python's steady takeover of the same roles.
rails vs django<br>The two great web frameworks of the 2010s: Rails out front, Django closing in.
scala vs kotlin vs clojure<br>Three JVM challengers, each with its moment in the hiring threads.
docker vs terraform vs ansible<br>Infra-as-code in job posts: Docker first, then Terraform and Ansible.
postgres vs mysql<br>The relational-database swing: MySQL's early lead, Postgres pulling ahead.
aws vs heroku<br>The PaaS-to-cloud migration, as companies move off Heroku onto AWS.
machine learning vs blockchain<br>Two hype waves in hiring: the ML build-out versus the blockchain spike.
ios vs android<br>The mobile duopoly in hiring demand, year by year.
startup vs enterprise<br>How job posts frame themselves: scrappy startup versus established enterprise.
backend / infra vs frontend<br>Backend and infra demand versus frontend demand - near-synonyms folded into one bar each with |.
AI wave vs crypto wave<br>Two hype cycles head to head: the AI/ML bucket versus the blockchain/crypto bucket.
systems languages<br>Low-level and systems-programming demand.
gpu & shader skills<br>GPU, graphics and shader work in job posts.
security<br>Security and cryptography roles across the hiring threads.