Generated locally from 83 historical hiring threads with the expanded Go dictionary.
Generated on Sunday, June 21, 2026 from the target Hacker News thread.
History chart
Selected terms
Category, family, tags, and latest month metrics.
| Term | Kind | Family | Tags | Latest count | Latest % | Latest rank | Total mentions |
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Geography
| Location | Weighted | Mentions | Companies | Top City | Work Mode Mix |
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This page was generated by the Go pipeline for March 2018 and analyzed 866 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 788 to 866 (9.9%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 785 to 866 (10.3%).
Top term this month: Onsite at rank 1 with 502 mentions (57.97% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Symfony (+346 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: Apache (-63 rank positions).
This Go-generated page reuses the frontend charting assets, but renders from Go templates and a Go-generated dataset.
Artifacts for this run: data-20180301-go.js and summary-20180301-go.json.
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
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| Onsite | Work Attribute | Work Mode | onsite, work-mode, role, location | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 2 | 6 | +4 | 3 | +1 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 3 | 5 | +2 | 7 | +4 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 4 | 4 | 0 | 5 | +1 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 5 | 3 | -2 | 4 | -1 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 6 | 2 | -4 | 2 | -4 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 7 | 8 | +1 | 8 | +1 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 8 | 7 | -1 | 6 | -2 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 9 | 10 | +1 | 10 | +1 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 10 | 9 | -1 | 9 | -1 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 11 | 11 | 0 | 17 | +6 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 12 | 13 | +1 | 19 | +7 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 13 | 12 | -1 | 11 | -2 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 14 | 15 | +1 | 12 | -2 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 15 | 17 | +2 | 16 | +1 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 16 | 16 | 0 | 13 | -3 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 17 | 14 | -3 | 15 | -2 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 18 | 18 | 0 | 14 | -4 |
| Cloud | Technology | Cloud | cloud, infrastructure, hosting | 19 | 22 | +3 | 22 | +3 |
| Docker | Technology | Infrastructure | container, infrastructure, devops, containers | 20 | 20 | 0 | 20 | 0 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Symfony | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, php, php-framework | 7 | 120 | 0 | 466 | +346 |
| Jupyter | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | data-science, ml, tooling, notebooks | 5 | 135 | 0 | 366 | +231 |
| Kotlin | Technology | Language | language, mobile, backend, jvm | 11 | 90 | 1 | 228 | +138 |
| Pandas | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | data-science, python, analytics, data-analysis | 8 | 112 | 1 | 241 | +129 |
| memcached | Technology | Database | cache, database, backend, storage | 7 | 116 | 1 | 233 | +117 |
| JSON | Technology | Data Encoding | data-encoding, data-format, text, api | 6 | 124 | 1 | 225 | +101 |
| Meteor | Technology | Frontend | frontend, backend, web, javascript | 5 | 137 | 1 | 235 | +98 |
| Keras | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, deep-learning, python | 5 | 136 | 1 | 226 | +90 |
| DynamoDB | Technology | Database | database, nosql, cloud, aws | 9 | 103 | 2 | 175 | +72 |
| Electron | Technology | Frontend | frontend, desktop, javascript, cross-platform | 8 | 107 | 2 | 177 | +70 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, web-server, backend, apache | 5 | 128 | 14 | 65 | -63 |
| Hadoop | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, distributed, processing, storage | 8 | 110 | 21 | 56 | -54 |
| Backbone | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 5 | 129 | 10 | 77 | -52 |
| SQL Server | Technology | Database | database, sql, microsoft, storage | 6 | 127 | 10 | 84 | -43 |
| Scrum | Process | Methodology | process, agile, methodology, management | 5 | 140 | 8 | 102 | -38 |
| Spark | Technology | Processing | batch-processing, stream-processing, distributed, data-engineering | 17 | 72 | 34 | 37 | -35 |
| Hybrid | Work Attribute | Work Mode | hybrid, work-mode, infrastructure, cloud | 7 | 115 | 10 | 81 | -34 |
| nginx | Technology | Network | network, web-server, load-balancing, infrastructure | 9 | 106 | 11 | 75 | -31 |
| Chef | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 9 | 102 | 11 | 74 | -28 |
| Objective-C | Technology | Language | language, mobile, ios, apple | 8 | 111 | 10 | 83 | -28 |
Target month: March 2018
Target postings: 866
Threads analyzed: 83