The Headlines
Jobless Claims Surge to Highest Weekly Total Since August
Tech Hiring Stands Out in December Jobs Report
The Job Market in Boston
The K-shaped Recovery
in job postings for technical skills in the Boston metro area continues into 2021. Meanwhile, job opportunities lag behind in certain sectors that require workers who interface with customers and may require fewer technical skills. Basically, those who can work from home, do. Those who can't, may continue to struggle.
The list of Top 20 Web Technologies in Boston has been updated for January. 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.
This month's report focuses on The Second Ten, those technical skills which are in demand and directly below the Top 10.
Top 20 Web Technologies in Boston
Here are The Second Ten of the 20 most in-demand web technologies [up or down from mid-December, 2020] ranked by number of job postings on Indeed.
January, 2021
- Git | 810 (job postings) up 5% (from December)
- Docker | 777 up 3%
- JIRA | 776 up 6%
- scrum | 773 down 31%
- Kubernetes | 738 up 2%
- React | 669 up 8%
- OOP | 651 up 902%
- SaaS | 605 down 65%
- Jenkins | 571 up 3%
- SharePoint | 543 up 13%
*** Note: The "scrum", "OOP" and "SaaS" trends appear to be anomalies and are inconsistent with previously reported data. Future monthly reports might well confirm these irregular trends.
Web Apprentices
The Top 10 Web Technologies in Boston are being counted down over the next 10 days on Beantown Web's Twitter page @webapprentices.
To learn more about these and other in-demand technologies, visit
Web Apprentices, a technology skills development platform offered as a service to Boston PHP Meetup members. January's learning opportunity focuses on Amazon Web Services (#5 in this month's demand analysis) and is called AWS Snack, Season 4. Join us.
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