Stack Overflow tallied up which keywords companies searched for the most often out of 14,000 total searches, and gave us the numbers to do an infographic of the top ten most-searched skills:
According to Will Cole, Product Manager for Careers 2.0 at Stack Overflow, Java’s popularity may indicate employers’ rising interest in mobile development. But due to the language’s wide number of development uses, it’s no surprise it snagged first place.
According to Will Cole, Product Manager for Careers 2.0 at Stack Overflow, Java’s popularity may indicate employers’ rising interest in mobile development. But due to the language’s wide number of development uses, it’s no surprise it snagged first place.
“Java is hugely popular for a wide variety of companies, it's the most common language across the world that developers use and are proficient at, and it's relevant knowledge for a growing market in Android development,” said Cole. “Love it or hate it, many people know Java, and many companies want those developers.”
Stack Overflow isn’t isolated in putting Java on top. According a survey by Dice, a technology career center, employers listed Java as the number-one developer skill they’d be seeking out over the course of 2013. Likewise, ReadWrite also predicted that Java would be one of the seven most in-demand technology skills for the upcoming year.
Indeed, most of the skills on the Stack Overflow chart have been around for a long time. There’s no Hadoop, Node.js, or any other buzzword skill in the top ten.
What should job seeking developers take from this? Trendy skills and languages may come and go, but employers are still boosting for the classics.
“While we see new technologies pop up frequently, it takes a considerable amount of time for them to work their way into the every day company's stack on a mass scale to notice major trend changes,” Cole said.
