Thursday, June 18, 2020

Boston Web Tech Job Market | June 2020




The Headlines

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The Job Market in Boston

May experienced an increase in economic activity. Cautious optimism fills the summer air despite high unemployment numbers.


How are technology workers holding up? Better than most other workers despite the fact that job postings fell for the third straight month.

The list of Top 30 Web Technologies in Boston has been updated for June. This list is based on keyword searches in job postings at Indeed.com. The most in-demand keywords are listed more frequently than less in-demand keywords. This list reflects the change in the last 30 days.


Top 30 Web Technologies in Boston

Here are 10 of the 30 most in-demand web technologies [up or down from early May, 2020] ranked by number of job postings in Indeed.

June, 2020
  1. Python | 2,314 (job postings) down 4% (from May)
  2. agile *** | 1,946 down 29%
  3. Java | 1,683 down 7%
  4. SQL | 1,564 down 10%
  5. AWS | 1,268 down 18%
  6. JavaScript | 1,228 down 13%
  7. scrum *** | 759 down 18%
  8. C# | 677 down 6%
  9. Azure | 595 down 16%
  10. SaaS | 565 down 49%
*** Note: While "agile" and "scrum" are not technologies, they are methodologies used in technology development. These two keywords appear in many web development job descriptions.

The Top 30 Web Technologies in Boston are being counted down over the next 30 days on Beantown Web's Twitter page @webapprentices.

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