Ever wondered which is the most demanded programming language in 2023? Although there are more than 200+ programming languages, only few of them are used in the real world industry. Knowing this information is essential to succeed in the developer job industry.
In the last 17 months (from Jan-2022 to May-2023), DevJobsScanner has analyzed more than 14M developer jobs.
From that 14M jobs, DevJobsScanner has only picked the job offers that explicitly required a programming language.
See section How has this study been made to know more information about it.
Keep reading below to know which languages are the most demanded 👇
1 – JavaScript / TypeScript
Since its creation to make the firsts websites dynamic, JavaScript hasn’t stopped gaining popularity over the years.
With that being said, currently JavaScript is the most demanded programming language in the entire market.
Also, the arrival of TypeScript (a JavaScript superset with type safety) may also help to achieve this milestone.
TypeScript popularity has only increased in recent years.
Many new JavaScript frameworks are entirely written with TypeScript, like Angular or NestJS.
Since January 2022 to May 2023 (seventeen months), we have found 915K job offers that represents ~29% of the jobs that explicitly required JavaScript or TypeScript as a programming language.
- Jobs Found: 915K (~29%)
- Keywords: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Angular, Vue, Node.
2 – Python
Without making much noise, Python has made its journey to be the second most demanded programming language in 2023.
Its versatility, from scripting, running servers or for data analysis, has been key to achieving this milestone. Also, Python has one of the greatest and bigger communities out there.
During these seventeen months we have found 603K job offers that accounts for a total of ~20% of jobs that explicitly required Python as a programming language.
3 – Java
In the top three spot, as the third most demanded programming language, we found Java.
Java language has been really popular since its creation in 1995.
Even though this popularity has been decreasing over the last years with the appearance of more modern languages like Kotlin, it still holds a solid top three spot. Frameworks like Spring, used in many top tier companies, are helping to hold that position.
4 – C#
The top four spot goes to C#. C# is a general purpose, multi-paradigm, object-oriented programming language, created mainly to address some of the weaknesses of C++. As a general purpose language, C# has a wide range of use cases. The most common usage of C# is with the .NET framework. It is also heavily used in the Unity game framework for scripting. Both .NET framework and Unity are popular among top tier companies.
5 – PHP
The language that Twenty-seven years ago started as a simple “Personal Home Page Tool”, here the name PHP, has made an incredible journey since then.
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