I'd say Ruby/Rails and JavaScript (Angular, React, Node) dominate the remote market. Just check weworkremotely.
Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?
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#42we're starting to get quite a bit of both elixir and react in green jobs. lost of rails in existing apps.
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#43I’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…
To add to this, here are some charts that I put together for https://cleanwebjobs.com.
Tech skills desired by employers: https://twitter.com/CleanwebJobs/status/767684601615704064
Tech skills available in the marketplace: https://twitter.com/CleanwebJobs/status/767683809714245632
Python and JavaScript are the biggest players along with UX/UI design (not really development). Seems to match the data above.
Unfortunately we don't track remote work independently, but I may be able to trawl through the location data to extract this information.
BTW I have a recent Show HN on this if you have other comments that would take this thread too far off-topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12759415
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#44I work remotely for a US company from Romania.
I do web development in Perl. And some jQuery for the frontend, but 90% backend dev using Perl.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe I didn't express myself clearly enough - this is all about the practicality of starting remoting. I agree with your point of solving business problems - that is obvious and I am a quite a generalist (with certain preferences) when it comes to tech. I am just trying to be realistic here - I don't find it easy to find a job on site and my guess is finding a remote one is way more difficult with all the devs aroun…
Low-end competition on places like UpWork is mostly piecework, doing small and very specific jobs at sometimes extremely low rates. I don't compete in that market and I don't advise it. If you want to freelance remotely I advise lining up clients before you start traveling or living abroad, because it's harder to do that remotely. Unless you like churning your customers or doing piecework, you need to aim for long-te…
Couldn't agree more about the UpWork, though I've managed to mostly get long-term contracts there. The rate was far from competitive, but it's nice when you're just getting started or still on college.
I avoid it now though, most of the jobs posted there nowadays are just trash. Wouldn't recommend anyone experienced to waste time there.
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#46I have worked as a PHP full stack developer several times remotely. LAMP/WAMP stack is mostly in demand for most of the startups based in India. The next in demand is Ruby on Rails, I believe. RoR is basically preferred by small startups who want their product up and running quickly. I've built products with RoR and it's really fast development. The only drawback is that it is heavy on your pocket, so to speak. One t…
> One thing that you should definitely have in your kitty is JavaScript. OO JS is gold. Next in line, AngularJS and ReactJS.
Is it, though? There are so many JS developers out there that a company would have little trouble hiring one locally. How would you stand out as being worth the money and the communications overhead?
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#47From my experience (working 100% remotely for some years), I'd say that the sweet point lies in relatively "exotic" stacks, like Scala, Erlang, maybe even Rust. It's not that there are more remote jobs in Scala than in Javascript. However, people who hire Scala developers seem to accept that when you need a top Scala team, you have to bring people from all over the world, i.e. they are fully committed to building a g…
What about legacy systems that were once popular but aren't anymore, like PHP? I know there's a lot of wordpress development demand out there and fewer and fewer skilled devs who are willing to learn and/or work with PHP.
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#48I’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…
Unrelated to the OP, but what are you using to resolve place names to geography?
Seems to be mostly on target, but you get weird stuff like Camden Town (UK) -> Camden, New Jersey, US and it's common enough to notice.
Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?
#49I 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…
Thanks for the stats. It seems logical that Ruby is on top since Basecamp guys are probably the most influential evangelists of remote work out there.
I'm pretty sure these are not similar for non-remote positions, though.
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#50We're running Rails + React at Ruzuku. How's that for alliteration?