ruby, python, php, java Job Trends | Indeed.com
Indeed.com can show some interesting trends about what’s hot and not in the job posting world. Here’s a chart of the popular web languages vs Java. It appears to me that Java has flat-lined.
Individual charts after the jump:
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What about other trend results from other sites? (eg. Google Trends)
I started to answer your question with a comment, but it grew too big. Here’s the result of a quick look at Google trends, and my late night analysis of the data:
http://antonolsen.com/2008/02/15/google-trends-java-php-ruby-python/
I think this makes an insightful point. However, the number of php opportunities are probably astronomically higher than ruby opportunities. But thanks for sharing.
The number of php jobs is astronomically higher. I just thought it was interesting to compare the growth rates for each language.
I went to the same site, tryed some languages (ruby, python, java, etc) and the results was very different.
Silveria,
Did you look at the absolute or the relative graphs? They are significantly different.
The graphs above show the relative graphs, or percentage of growth. The absolute graphs are much less exciting.
There are still more Java jobs than the others, but the number appears to be dropping slightly, compared to some steep growth in the other three languages.
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