Tech jobs: Outlook for hiring is still uncertain
Summary
But, according to data from Stack Overflow, there has been a notable decline in new job postings between Q1 2020 and Q2 2020 in most major tech cities in Europe and the US with the exception of Seattle, Washington and Munich, Germany. Meanwhile, the average number of applications per job rose across the two quarters in Boston, New York, San Francisco, Washington DC, and Munich. In those cities, average views on job listings also grew significantly, suggesting more developers were spending time searching for new work. Dice, a tech-hiring platform, recently used Burning Glass Technologies data to compare tech job postings between May 2020 and June 2020 in major US cities. Markets where Python leads suggests a greater interest in data science, while Java could be seen as an indicator of back-end enterprise development, and JavaScript is more widely used for web application projects.