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Folks from DevJobScanner recently analyzed more than 12 million developer jobs in the last 21 months, from January 2023 to September 2024, with offers that required programming languages, and here is the list of most wanted ones:
๐ญ. ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฝ๐ / ๐ง๐๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฝ๐. There are more than 651K jobs (31%) with the request of these two programming languages, as expected, as they are the standard for web development today.
๐ฎ. ๐ฃ๐๐๐ต๐ผ๐ป. We saw Python rise in previous years due to its versatility, ease of learning, and use in the Data world. They found more than 408K job offers (20%) that required Python.
๐ฏ. ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฎ. The old king is still here and has been at the top for a long time. Although its popularity has decreased, it is still widely used (18% of jobs) with the help of frameworks like Spring.
๐ฐ. ๐#. My favorite language made the top four this year, and it accounts for 13% of overall jobs. C# is a versatile language used in various use cases, from game development to web development to scripting. More than 246K job positions require C#.
๐ฑ. ๐ฃ๐๐ฃ. It has been mainly used for web development for more than 27 years now, together with frameworks like Laravel or WordPress, and it accounts for 206K job positions (10%).
๐ฒ. ๐/๐ . Although they are not the same language, both are mainly used for embedded development today. There were more than 172K job openings for these languages (8%).
๐ณ. ๐ฅ๐๐ฏ๐. More than 76K jobs request Ruby (~4%), and it is most prevalent when used with a web framework like Ruby on Rails. Many big companies use it, such as Twitter, Airbnb, GitHub, and more.
๐ด. ๐๐ผ. Google created this young programming language 12 years ago, and it improved productivity. There were 49k job openings (2%).
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