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Arthur T Knackerbracket has processed the following story:
More than 750 new job postings for software developers go live every day in the UK, with JavaScript leading the demand for programming language skills among employers.
According to developer recruitment platform CodinGame, a new tech job is advertised every two minutes in the United Kingdom, with over half of tech job postings commanding salaries of at least £50,000 ($60,900) and one in five (20%) promising £70,000 ($85,300) and above.
The UK is enjoying a boom in tech investment, with investors putting £89.5 billion into European tech firms in 2021, a third of which was directed towards UK firms. The majority of these investments were aimed at London firms, which, as a result, accounted for 47.5% of all new tech jobs posted in 2021.
The majority of tech vacancies last year were in software development and engineering roles, which increased by 88.2% between 2020 and 2021.
In an analysis of available coding roles, CodinGame found that JavaScript continued its reign as the most in-demand programming language, with 33% of all job postings requiring proficiency in the language.
JavaScript job postings eclipsed its runner-up language, Java, by 33%. Other popular coding languages include Python, C# and C++.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by looorg on Wednesday August 03 2022, @05:13PM
I'm thinking they are a bit on the scam side. I have a subscription setup for some weekly digest of open opportunities in my field as it's always nice to see what is out there and so on, they are not javascript programming tho, and there have been a definitive uptick in obscure and new recruitment companies offering positions. I don't even live in the UK or want to move or work in the UK and I get them anyway so they are basically spreading like the plague all over the continent; I guess they offer "remote" work so they just search the continent or the world for candidates to fill up their imaginary roster. Positions that they don't have I might add as since you can by just reading the ads conclude that a lot of these offers are recruitment agencies just looking at bigger organizations and companies own recruitment page and copying a lot of it and then I guess they want to try and find candidates to pitch to the original job and companies so they can charge some kind of finders fee or whatnot. So there is less actual and real jobs then there are adverts for them.
Technically tho from the actual article it's not an open job position for a javascript programmer appearing every other minute, it's a "techjob" being posted every other minute. Hopefully they are not one and the same. Javascript is just the most common programming language current, which I find hard to understand really. How many frontend UX monkies do they really need? That said if there is say one real job and then X agencies that post about the same job the amount of actual jobs is still only one even tho there are now umpteen amounts of adverts for it.