Insights

Trends and market signals from HN job data

Trends

Technology Trends
React
PostgreSQL
AWS
React Native
Kubernetes
OpenAI API
Anthropic API
ROS
Language Trends
TypeScript
Python
Rust
JavaScript
Go
C++
Ruby
Java
Role Trends
Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer
Full Stack Engineer
Other
AI Engineer
DevOps / SRE
Backend Engineer
Engineering Manager

Tech Stack Archetypes

React / AWS / PostgreSQL
74.8% of jobs (157 jobs)
ReactAWSPostgreSQLReact NativeKubernetesOpenAI APIAnthropic APIMCP
Top roles: Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack Engineer
🌐 49% remote💰 39% salary🤖 60% AI/ML
ROS / Docker / LangChain
52.4% of jobs (110 jobs)
ROSDockerLangChainCUDAHugging FacePyTorchiOSAirflow
Top roles: Software Engineer, Full Stack Engineer, Senior Software Engineer
🌐 45% remote💰 42% salary🤖 59% AI/ML
GCP / Gemini API / Git
52.4% of jobs (110 jobs)
GCPGemini APIGitWebAssemblyAndroidFlutterTensorFlowNode.js
Top roles: Software Engineer, Full Stack Engineer, Senior Software Engineer
🌐 46% remote💰 41% salary🤖 57% AI/ML
Spark / Terraform / Next.js
51% of jobs (107 jobs)
SparkTerraformNext.jsRailsGitHub ActionsKafkaLinuxNix
Top roles: Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack Engineer
🌐 46% remote💰 44% salary🤖 54% AI/ML
eBPF / Pub/Sub / RabbitMQ
47.6% of jobs (100 jobs)
eBPFPub/SubRabbitMQSQSAzureGraphQLJenkinsRedis
Top roles: Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack Engineer
🌐 48% remote💰 45% salary🤖 53% AI/ML
Cloudflare / SQL / Vercel
43.8% of jobs (92 jobs)
CloudflareSQLVercelFirebaseS3MongoDBDjangoFastAPI
Top roles: Software Engineer, Full Stack Engineer, Senior Software Engineer
🌐 49% remote💰 45% salary🤖 54% AI/ML
CSS / ClickHouse / Elasticsearch
42.4% of jobs (89 jobs)
CSSClickHouseElasticsearchExpressLaravelReduxWebSocketsAngular
Top roles: Software Engineer, Full Stack Engineer, Senior Software Engineer
🌐 47% remote💰 44% salary🤖 57% AI/ML
MySQL / NestJS / SQLite
41.4% of jobs (87 jobs)
MySQLNestJSSQLiteSnowflakeSpringSupabaseEmber.jsFirestore
Top roles: Software Engineer, Full Stack Engineer, Senior Software Engineer
🌐 48% remote💰 44% salary🤖 56% AI/ML
Flask / Neo4j / Svelte
41% of jobs (86 jobs)
FlaskNeo4jSvelteVueSQL ServergRPCWebRTCCassandra
Top roles: Software Engineer, Full Stack Engineer, Senior Software Engineer
🌐 49% remote💰 44% salary🤖 57% AI/ML
Python / Ruby / Dart
26.2% of jobs (55 jobs)
PythonRubyDartElixirOCamlPHPRScala
Top roles: Software Engineer, Full Stack Engineer, Senior Software Engineer
🌐 53% remote💰 38% salary🤖 55% AI/ML
C++ / Kotlin / Swift
26.2% of jobs (55 jobs)
C++KotlinSwiftCC#GoJavaRust
Top roles: Software Engineer, Full Stack Engineer, Senior Software Engineer
🌐 53% remote💰 38% salary🤖 55% AI/ML
TypeScript / JavaScript
17.6% of jobs (37 jobs)
TypeScriptJavaScript
Top roles: Software Engineer, Full Stack Engineer, Senior Software Engineer
🌐 49% remote💰 35% salary🤖 59% AI/ML

Momentum

Rising
Technologies with positive growth trajectory
WebRTC
+228.5%/mo
OCaml
+194.8%/mo
WebSockets
+182.0%/mo
Nix
+162.5%/mo
Gemini API
+153.2%/mo
Flask
+134.7%/mo
SQS
+122.5%/mo
eBPF
+119.6%/mo
Declining
Technologies losing share over time
TypeScript
-11.9%/mo
Python
-10.1%/mo
Stable
GoReactRust

Top Technology Pairs

React+TypeScript
552 jobs42.4%
PostgreSQL+React
519 jobs38.6%
Python+TypeScript
454 jobs33.4%
AWS+PostgreSQL
418 jobs34.4%
AWS+React
416 jobs30.2%
Python+React
415 jobs26.5%
PostgreSQL+TypeScript
403 jobs31.2%
AWS+Python
374 jobs27.2%
Node.js+React
361 jobs33.0%
PostgreSQL+Python
359 jobs24.5%
AWS+TypeScript
324 jobs24.9%
AWS+Kubernetes
321 jobs33.2%
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