Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Boston Web Tech Job Market | August 2020



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The Job Market in Boston


Tech job postings in the Boston metro area have continued to rebound for the second month in a row after three months of sharp declines.



The list of Top 20 Web Technologies in Boston has been updated for August. 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 20 Web Technologies in Boston


Here are 10 of the 20 most in-demand web technologies [up or down from early July, 2020] ranked by number of job postings in Indeed.

August, 2020

  1. agile *** | 2,836 (job postings) up 9% (from July)
  2. Python | 2,467 up 6%
  3. SQL | 1,727 up 5%
  4. Java | 1,690 up 5%
  5. AWS | 1,580 up 7%
  6. JavaScript | 1,322 up 6%
  7. SaaS | 1,190 up 13%
  8. scrum  *** | 850 up 7%
  9. Azure | 817 up 18%
  10. Web Services | 715 down 3%

*** 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 20 Web Technologies in Boston are being counted down over the next 20 days on Beantown Web's Twitter page  @webapprentices.