Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?

#31

Post by csdreamer7 » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 11:38 AM UTC

gregjor wrote: post #10

I don't think this is a meaningful question. No stacks "dominate" in remote jobs just as no stacks dominate in on-site jobs. Most remote jobs are just working from home or somewhere else for the same companies that have people on-site. If you want to work remotely what you should focus on is honing the business value you can offer, because that's what companies pay for. No company, whether they hire remote or not, ev…

What kind of business problems do you solve or see other remote programmers solving?

edit: nevermind, you answered, legacy systems, according to your blog PHP/MySQL work

Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?

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Post by rizn » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 12:20 PM UTC

I'm also from E.Europe and I was in similar position. Was contracting as php dev in UK/London, then moved back to my home country. As someone suggested, the best thing is trying not to be 100% programmer, but also have a little bit of business acumen and trying to get to know companies/people in London while you're there. This way I managed to do some remote work (same rate as on-site). Some companies are willing to pay you well as long as they know you personally and have experience what you can do.

Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?

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Post by xando » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 12:20 PM UTC

I’m not too sure if the question is meaningful. But since I’m running https://whoishiring.io and scrapping all major sources with jobs for developers, I have a lot of data related. I can put some numbers here.

Top 10 from all sources (that I'm looking at) since August 2015.

  Javascript 27.69%
  SQL 22.41%
  Ruby 17.71%
  Python 17.60%
  AWS 13.85%
  Ruby On Rails 13.83%
  AngularJS 11.47%
  Java 10.89%
  PHP 10.57%
  React 10.46%

(top 100 https://gist.githubusercontent.com/xando/1853d5e48f94abe2f13...)

Top 10 from “Hacker News Who is Hiring” since 2011

  Javascript 24.17%
  Python 22.38%
  SQL 18.63%
  Ruby 18.13%
  Ruby On Rails 17.00%
  AWS 12.38%
  AngularJS 10.82%
  Java 10.13%
  PostgreSQL 9.72%
  React 9.53%

(top 100 https://gist.githubusercontent.com/xando/d1daca52b797e725175...)

edit: where 100% equals all jobs tagged as remote.

Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?

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Post by mountaineer22 » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 12:21 PM UTC

V-2 wrote: post #11

throw31337 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, this is a very legitimate question. I am an Eastern European and having spent 7 years in UK (and last two in London) I realized that all I do here is bleed huge amounts of money for rent. I want to get a remote job and move back to my homeland. This is all about maximizing my chances of getting such a job, because I understand that remote is rather competitive market with developers from developing countries knoc…

As long as you're already in London, I suppose the best way would be to start working for a company on-site and then make an arrangement to continue the collaboration remotely (assuming they do remote at all). It's always better if someone gets to know you face to face first.

I agree with this. Establish a face-to-face relationship and then begin working offsite.

I assume you can find a London employer with similar values (rent is ridiculous - let's hire remote devs, so we don't have to lease so much office space).

Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?

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Post by Buetol » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 12:28 PM UTC

xando wrote: post #33

I’m not too sure if the question is meaningful. But since I’m running https://whoishiring.io and scrapping all major sources with jobs for developers, I have a lot of data related. I can put some numbers here. Top 10 from all sources (that I'm looking at) since August 2015. Javascript 27.69% SQL 22.41% Ruby 17.71% Python 17.60% AWS 13.85% Ruby On Rails 13.83% AngularJS 11.47% Java 10.89% PHP 10.57% React 10.46% (top…

It would be useful to compare the proportions difference between non-remote and remote instead of the absolute popularity.

Example: Since SQL dominates most job offers already, it's gonna dominate also remote jobs offers. What you want is to look at technologies that are more predominant in remote than non-remote.

Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?

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Post by xando » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 12:36 PM UTC

Buetol wrote: post #35

xando wrote: post #33

I’m not too sure if the question is meaningful. But since I’m running https://whoishiring.io and scrapping all major sources with jobs for developers, I have a lot of data related. I can put some numbers here. Top 10 from all sources (that I'm looking at) since August 2015. Javascript 27.69% SQL 22.41% Ruby 17.71% Python 17.60% AWS 13.85% Ruby On Rails 13.83% AngularJS 11.47% Java 10.89% PHP 10.57% React 10.46% (top…

It would be useful to compare the proportions difference between non-remote and remote instead of the absolute popularity. Example: Since SQL dominates most job offers already, it's gonna dominate also remote jobs offers. What you want is to look at technologies that are more predominant in remote than non-remote.

Actually a lot of people ask me about different angles for the data. For this reason I'm trying to build a stats / trends page. So feedback / requirements welcome.

Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?

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Post by pieterhg » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 12:37 PM UTC

I make Remote OK, which aggregates most job boards for remote jobs. I have data for the last 2 years of jobs.

I quickly made this page for you to see what stacks/tags are most popular: https://remoteok.io/stats.php

Top stacks:

  Ruby		1,759 jobs	(9%)
  Node JS	953 jobs	(5%)
  PHP		779 jobs	(4%)
  Meteor JS	645 jobs	(3%)
  Python	552 jobs	(3%)
  Java		525 jobs	(3%)
  C++		374 jobs	(2%)
  Linux		313 jobs	(2%)
  C		268 jobs	(1%)
  Rails		266 jobs	(1%)
  Scala		242 jobs	(1%)
  Wordpress	226 jobs	(1%)
  Jquery	212 jobs	(1%)
  Mongodb	136 jobs	(1%)
  .NET		119 jobs	(1%)
  Drupal	115 jobs	(1%)
  Photoshop	100 jobs	(1%)

Top tags:

  Dev		8,919 jobs	(46%)
  Senior	2,619 jobs	(13%)
  Exec		2,045 jobs	(10%)
  Ruby		1,759 jobs	(9%)
  Marketing	1,469 jobs	(8%)
  Full Stack	1,293 jobs	(7%)
  Mobile	1,036 jobs	(5%)
  UI		881 jobs	(5%)
  Sys Admin	789 jobs	(4%)
  Backend	722 jobs	(4%)
  Devops	674 jobs	(3%)
  Admin		641 jobs	(3%)
  Python	552 jobs	(3%)
  Full Time	546 jobs	(3%)
  CSS		513 jobs	(3%)
  Medical	437 jobs	(2%)
  PM		426 jobs	(2%)
  C++		374 jobs	(2%)
  Cloud		370 jobs	(2%)
  Ops		346 jobs	(2%)

I think these are fairly similar to non-remote positions but I'm not sure. It's predominantly dev/tech jobs any way.

Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?

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Post by Buetol » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 12:43 PM UTC

xando wrote: post #36

Buetol wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would be useful to compare the proportions difference between non-remote and remote instead of the absolute popularity. Example: Since SQL dominates most job offers already, it's gonna dominate also remote jobs offers. What you want is to look at technologies that are more predominant in remote than non-remote.

Actually a lot of people ask me about different angles for the data. For this reason I'm trying to build a stats / trends page. So feedback / requirements welcome.

I think it would be better to just let people download the raw data (like the database dump). Then people can do their analysis on top (like, I could produce the stats I just told you about)

Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 12:55 PM UTC

gregjor wrote: post #10

I don't think this is a meaningful question. No stacks "dominate" in remote jobs just as no stacks dominate in on-site jobs. Most remote jobs are just working from home or somewhere else for the same companies that have people on-site. If you want to work remotely what you should focus on is honing the business value you can offer, because that's what companies pay for. No company, whether they hire remote or not, ev…

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Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?

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Post by V-2 » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 1:05 PM UTC

FuNe wrote: post #2

You can see the current trends by looking at job listings. E.g. http://stackoverflow.com/jobs?sort=i&allowsremote=true Another good source of info is: https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job I think it has more to do with the company itself and less with the tech stack though. There are companies that get remote working (not necessarily new or startups) and others that they don't.

> Another good source of info is: https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job

Real HQ - Maker of Agent Pronto, software designed to help make home buying and selling a better experience. We've been remote since the start, now 50+ spread across the globe

On https://realhq.com/jobs/ though:

Work Remotely

We’re looking for people who live in the United States.

Another company doesn't state that explicitly under http://www.surgeforward.com/careers/ - but they feature a map of stick figure "employees" spread over the US on that site, a clear indication they're in the same camp

For many companies "remote work" is synonymous with "remote work for US residents", and it's a totally different category from global point of view. I'd like to see some source that dinstinguishes between the two