ruby, python, php, java Job Trends | Indeed.com
February 14th, 2008 Posted in Programming, Web Tools
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:
February 14th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
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February 14th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
What about other trend results from other sites? (eg. Google Trends)
February 15th, 2008 at 12:23 am
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/
March 14th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
I think this makes an insightful point. However, the number of php opportunities are probably astronomically higher than ruby opportunities. But thanks for sharing.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
The number of php jobs is astronomically higher. I just thought it was interesting to compare the growth rates for each language.
March 29th, 2008 at 8:42 am
I went to the same site, tryed some languages (ruby, python, java, etc) and the results was very different.
March 29th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
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.
June 2nd, 2009 at 4:36 am
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