Rankings of required skills in software development job listings

In general I would suggest not putting too much emphasis on these sorts of lists, especially once you're an experienced programmer. Yes, over time new technologies become more useful, but there's a whole bunch of core skills that will last you far longer than web-framework of the week:

1. General problem solving skills. A lead developer needs a whole bunch of skills that aren't listed anywhere on that list.

2. More slowly changing technologies, and underlying principles. E.g. Python and Java will be around for a long time. RDBMS have been around for even longer, and will continue to be around.

3. Ability to learn new technologies quickly.

And if you do it right you can get job that claims to require certain technologies even if you don't have know them.

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Re: Rankings of required skills in software development job listings

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Post by lukeHeuer » Tue, Jul 18, 2017, 1:01 PM UTC

Some fluctuations I noticed when comparing the trends from last month and now:

- Go took a dip in demand, down from the 6th most mentioned language in listings to 8th.

When looking at trends from all 2017 reports:

- The top languages steadily in demand this year have been: Python, JavaScript, Java, Ruby, SQL, CSS, HTML, Go, C, and C++

- The top four application frameworks have fairly steadily been: Rails, Spring, Flask, and Django

- React is the top choice when it comes to UI libraries/frameworks. Angular doesn't seem to be gaining on it, and mentions of jQuery have been steadily declining.

- The top three databases/stores have steadily been PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Redis