programming language ranking by jobs

programming language ranking by jobs

The most important skill to learn in today’s world is to know how to write a computer program. Today, computers have entered in almost every industry. Be it the autopilot in an aircraft or digital speedometer in your bike, computers in various forms surround us. Computers are extremely useful for an organization to scale up well. Gone are the days of pen and paper. Today, in order to store and access your information, you absolutely need computers.

Compared this year’s January data to the data we collected last January 2018, on this same topic, job postings are on the rise as a whole. The ranking, however, did not change. Java is still on top, followed closely by Python — yet, it’s clear Python is on the rise. Javascript and C++ are neck and neck for third place, with Javascript only a few hundred postings ahead.

JAVA

This year Java grew by around 6% compared to last January, which was right around 62,000 job postings at the time. Java is just about to celebrate its 24-year birthday, and as a programming language, it has definitely stood the test of time. Java was developed by a Canadian computer scientist that used to work with Sun Microsystems,James Gosling. It’s a language that lets developers “write once, run everywhere,” (WORA), which mean its compiled code, also known as bytecode, can run on almost any platform without recompilation.

Python

Python was released more than a decade ago and was designed by Guido van Rossum, a Dutch programmer. It is a high-level programming language that is used as a ‘glue’ language to connect large existing software components. Also, its an object-oriented programming language that offer a vast collection of useful libraries and extension for developers and programmers.

Python is often described as simple and easy to learn, with a readable syntax that decreases the cost and time of program maintenance. This year, Python is skyrocketing with an increase of about 24% with 61,000 job postings compared to last year’s 46,000.

JavaScript

JavaScript is an object-based programming language created by an American technologist, Brendan Eich, and was inspired by Java. Unlike Java, JavaScript doesn’t create stand-alone apps or applets, it can only run on browsers and make them interactive. It can also change and update both HTML and CSS.

One of the advantages of using JavaScript is its speed. It runs immediately within the browser, and it also doesn’t need to be compiled on the client side. This year, JavaScript’s job posting didn’t change much at all, yet it’s still in the top three listings!

C++

C++ was designed as an enhanced version of the C language by Bjarne Stroustrup, a Danish computer scientist. Its four-year development started way back in 1979 and was released in 1983. C++ is usually used for game development, drivers, client-server applications, system/application software, and embedded firmware. This year, C++ grew in popularity by 16.22% compared to last year with almost 37,000 job postings.

C#

C# is a Microsoft programming language and is a hybrid of C++ and C languages. It lets developers build secure applications such as XML Web services, client-server, Windows client and database applications that run on the .NET Framework. C#’s job postings didn’t grow that much over the year, but it’s still one of the most popular languages.

PHP

PHP or Hypertext Preprocessor is created by Rasmus Lerdorf, a Danish-Canadian programmer. It’s an open source general-purpose scripting language for web development and can be embedded into HTML code from the server side execution. It’s commonly used to draw data out of a database on web pages. PHP’s job postings increased by 2,000 compared to last year.

PERL

PERL’s first appearance was in 1987, designed by an American computer programmer,Larry Wall. Wikipedia says it’s a “family of two high-level general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming languages, Perl 5 and Perl 6.” Perl’s popularity didn’t increase this year but is still one of the most popular programming languages to learn.