Due to COVID-19, recruitment drives and employment opportunities saw a major dip and volatility last year. However, the tech industry turned out to be more resilient than expected.
According to Hired.com, a marketplace that helps companies across the world hire talents, the IT sector witnessed a steady overall growth in employment, with an average software engineer salary of $107,000 in 2020.
Hired states, “In December 2020, the unemployment rate for the tech sector was only 3% compared to 6.7% for the overall U.S. economy, with tech jobs growing by an estimated 391,000 positions in that month.”
Today, technology is the central driving force for change in business. Hence talent demand continues to outstrip supply. In fact, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that by 2026, the shortage of engineers in the U.S. will exceed 1.2 million.
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Hottest Jobs In Software Engineering In 2021
Here are the top software engineering jobs in 2021 that tech companies across the world are offering:
| No. | Software Engineering Role | Job Description |
| 1. | Backend Developer | Development of server-side web application logic and integration of the work Frontend developers do |
| 2. | Full Stack Developer | Designing and creation of scalable software. Writing clean, functional code for the front and back end. Testing and fixing bugs or other coding issues |
| 3. | Frontend Developer | Structuring and designing of the UI in web pages and apps |
| 4. | Data Engineer | Finding and analyzing trends in data sets and developing algorithms to help make raw data more useful to the enterprise |
| 5. | Mobile Developer | Creation, testing, and development of applications for mobile devices |
| 6. | Machine Learning Engineer | Development of self-running AI software to automate predictive models and resolve data set problems |
| 7. | Search Engineer | Develop, maintain, test, and optimize the search engine for a company’s platform |
| 8. | Security Engineer | Prevention and mitigation of security breaches that may arise within the company’s computer systems |
| 9. | NLP Engineer | Development of Natural Language Processing applications that can process and analyze natural language data |
| 10. | Computer Vision Engineer | Automation of various functions that the human visual system can do |
| 11. | Game Developer | Development of games for various platforms |
| 12. | Embedded Engineering | Design and development of embedded software and writing code for microcontrollers and microprocessors |
| 13. | AR/VR Engineer | Designing, analyzing, debugging, and developing AR and VR prototypes |
| 14. | Blockchain Developer | Secure digital transactions by creating systems to record and store blockchain data in a way that prevents changes or hacks |
| 15. | Engineering Manager | Planning and coordinates projects, supervising junior engineers in architectural and engineering companies |
Below is the visual graph published by Hired pertaining to changes in demand for each software engineering role in 2019 and 2020.
Most In-Demand Coding Skills In 2021
For the last two years, Google’s Go was the most in-demand coding language on Hired. So candidates with knowledge of the Go programming language received an average of 9.2x interview requests. Scala and SASS were next in line, getting candidates 2.2x and 2.1x more interviews than average, respectively.
However, Redux.js saw the highest demand overall in 2021, landing 2.9x more interview requests than the marketplace average. Here is the complete chart for your reference:
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Top Coding Languages In 2021 On Hired.com
Here are the popular programming languages ranked from most to least favorite on Hired:
- Python
- JavaScript
- Java
- Go
- Ruby
- Scala
- Objective-C
- PHP
- HTML
- Swift
- C++
- C
- C#
- R
- Kotlin
- Typescript
As you can see, Python, Java, and JavaScript are the top three most requested coding languages on Hired. This can be largely attributed to their useful and well-maintained libraries and packages, and the resources available for learning and development.
R, Kotlin, and Typescript were ranked as the least favorite languages for software engineers.
Whereas, React and Node.js are the most in-demand frameworks, and AWS is the top specialty skill, showing 8x the demand compared to Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure skills.
Kubernetes and Docker are also among the 10 highest in-demand skills — mostly because of the increasing shift to the cloud and containers, which has been accelerated further by the pandemic.
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