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In my most recent blog post (Broadway, RabbitMQ, and the Rise of Elixir Part 2-Alex Koutmos | Engineering Blog) I used Broadway to process every HackerNews item since Elixir was announced in 2011 and plot the trend of Erlang+Elixir over time. Out of curiosity, I was wondering how the Elixir job market has fared over time and modified my Broadway pipeline to only look at comments posted via the “whoishiring” user on HackerNews.
I figured I would share the results here for people hesitant about learning Elixir out of fear they may not be a job market out there (which unfortunately I have heard quite a few times from people :/). From the results I aggregated from HackerNews, it looks like 2019 was Elixir’s best year and it is trending upwards quite nicely!
Monthly totals of job listings containing the string “elixir” (case insensitive):
Yearly totals of job listings containing the string “elixir” (case insensitive):
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Zesky665
Why is it that there is always a spike at the end of the year?
akoutmos
I wondered that myself (the seasonality of the graph). Maybe that’s when fiscal years start and headcount opens up for most places?
venomnert
Budgeting for the next year can also open up new opportunities in tech.