Friday, September 18, 2020

Boston Web Tech Job Market | September 2020



The Headlines

Massachusetts Unemployment Rate Down To 11.3% For August; Biggest Drop In Country

Startup Layoffs Leveled Off Over the Summer


The Job Market in Boston

The national labor market continues to struggle with nearly 30 million former workers receiving financial assistance.


While "continued claims" for unemployment have remained high nationally, tech job postings in the Boston metro area have continued to rebound for the third month in a row after three months of sharp declines.

The list of Top 20 Web Technologies in Boston has been updated for September. 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 August, 2020] ranked by number of job postings on Indeed.

September, 2020

  1. agile *** | 3,095 (job postings) up 9% (from August)
  2. Python | 2,604 up 6%
  3. SQL | 1,919 up 11%
  4. Java | 1,787 up 6%
  5. AWS | 1,614 up 2%
  6. JavaScript | 1,365 up 3%
  7. SaaS | 1,310 up 10%
  8. scrum  *** | 954 up 12%
  9. Azure | 848 up 4%
  10. Web Services | 752 up 5%

*** 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.