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Re: Show HN: I analyzed 1500+ job ads to find the most wanted skills by recruiters

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Post by jurajstefanic »

Oras wrote: post #6

Nice one, but you need to provide a context. 1500+ jobs in which location? Which country? Which job titles did you search for? By the way, 1500+ is a start but insufficient to determine trends. For instance, 48,344 SW jobs were posted in Jan 2025 alone [0]. It is a nice project to learn and show potential employers. Well done. [0] https://www.comptia.org/content/tech-jobs-report

Hey, thanks for the feedback!

I’ll definitely add more context and details to improve clarity in the project. I agree that 1500+ job ads are a starting point rather than a definitive trend analysis. That’s why I plan to continue collecting and analyzing job postings over time to get a more representative dataset.

To answer your questions — the job ads were primarily sourced using search queries tailored to each category. For example, the "Frontend" category included searches for "Frontend Developer" / "Frontend Engineer" / "Frontend Web Developer". Similar criteria was used for other categories too.

The dataset covers multiple countries but is predominantly focused on regions: North America and EU.

Re: Show HN: I analyzed 1500+ job ads to find the most wanted skills by recruiters

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Post by itronitron »

deepsquirrelnet wrote: post #14

Recruiters conflate skills with technologies. Or perhaps the author does. I feel like a skill is something that doesn’t go away if a particular business folds. This might seem nitpicky, until you’ve had a recruiter ask how skilled you were in JIRA and demands you tell them a story about a time when you used advanced JIRA skills to solve a problem. It becomes a checklist of things that really don’t matter that much co…

yeah, unfortunately it matters to the recruiter

Re: Show HN: I analyzed 1500+ job ads to find the most wanted skills by recruiters

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Post by idiotsecant »

neom wrote: post #11
cglace wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean?

There is a high level of remedially about this. For a starters, if you're trying to make it in a profession you should already be keenly aware of these things, if you are not, you should be doing proper research and conversing with other real humans who are experts as, through that method you gain considerably more than just this list. I can't think that producing a new abstraction of a signal that was already readil…

I hope the irony of this post isn't lost on you.

Re: Show HN: I analyzed 1500+ job ads to find the most wanted skills by recruiters

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Post by [deleted] »

rvz wrote: post #3

Great project. This unfortunately also tells us that the 'top skills' mentioned on the site are actually going to be the ones which an AI WILL easily displace the jobs of programmers with the following 'skills': 1. Node.js 2. React 3. JavaScript 4. TypeScript 5. Python 6. Java Would completely avoid super specializing in these 'skills' unless you are the top 1% in them as these employers are extremely selective and e…

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Re: Show HN: I analyzed 1500+ job ads to find the most wanted skills by recruiters

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Post by ct0 »

deepsquirrelnet wrote: post #14

Recruiters conflate skills with technologies. Or perhaps the author does. I feel like a skill is something that doesn’t go away if a particular business folds. This might seem nitpicky, until you’ve had a recruiter ask how skilled you were in JIRA and demands you tell them a story about a time when you used advanced JIRA skills to solve a problem. It becomes a checklist of things that really don’t matter that much co…

In my experience, the parent category would be a Competency. With skills, tools, knowledge, and personal ability as children categories. Most HR analytics software breaks it out similarly.

Re: Show HN: I analyzed 1500+ job ads to find the most wanted skills by recruiters

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Post by jvanderbot »

GuB-42 wrote: post #19

It looks like it is only web/cloud technologies. Only a single mention of C++, and yet, it represents about 10% of GitHub, about the same level as JavaScript. But JavaScript gets 375 mentions. I also don't see a single skill that relates to embedded software, except C, but C is not just for embedded software. And thinking about it, I don't see much about system programming either (no Unix/Linux?). And nothing about 3…

Robotics, C, C++, Rust, Planning, Optimization

Guess I'll be homeless if my current job doesn't work out??

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