Focus on employment trends in the Web programming and scripting languages

August is a month to pay attention to work trends, and today we focus on the employment trends of Web programming languages and scripting languages.

You might be wondering what I mean by "web programming language and scripting language". In this article I've listed programming languages such as Ruby, Python, PHP, JavaScript, Flex, and groovy. I didn't mention rails here because I wanted to separate the development framework from the development language area as much as possible.

1. Indeed.com Trend Analysis Chart: (horizontal axis representation time; Ordinate indicates the percentage of jobs matched)

JavaScript is the biggest demand in comparison to other languages, but has grown more slowly over the past six months. I anticipate that this trend will not last, because with the wide application of HTML5, we need to use JavaScript knowledge more and more. Overall, over the past six months, all languages have shown a slower growth trend. PHP has a certain amount of growth first, and then slowly tends to stabilize. And Python seems to overtake Flex before the next update. Ruby continues to grow, while groovy is at the bottom, but has maintained steady growth.

2. simplyhired.com Short-term trend analysis: (horizontal axis representation time; Ordinate indicates percentage of work matched)

PHP, Python, and Ruby have shown similar trends since the end of 2010. Groovy's changing trend is significantly slower than in other programming languages.

3. Indeed.com growth trend: (horizontal axis indicates the number of growth)

I love this picture because it shows more than just the current demand and the dynamics of the industry as a whole. While there is not much demand for groovy throughout the industry, it has the strongest growth trend compared to other languages, followed by Ruby. In the past two months, all languages have shown a certain degree of stability, similar to the demand trend above. Python continues to grow faster than PHP and JavaScript. Flex basically does not have strong growth, with HTML5 development, Flex is likely to appear downward trend.

All of these trends suggest that web development tends to be stable and mature. With the growing variety of languages, there are more and more questions about language. These languages have shown a strong growth trend over the years, especially the strong momentum of Ruby and Groovy has significantly surpassed the development framework rails and grails. The language of long term attention is certainly not HTML5. Considering that HTML5 contains some interesting JavaScript APIs, as well as some features to replace Flash and Flex, HTML5 will have some significant changes in the overall demand and growth trend.