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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: 3, Insightful) by looorg on Wednesday August 03 2022, @08:52PM
I had never really thought about it like that. I think you might be on to something. As the previous comment also stated -- first impressions lasts and Java and Javascript was a god damn mess when it came about (not to mention how horribly slow it was). Eons (or decades in reality) later that still stick in memory -- horrible languages that you should just not even poke with a stick. It's not that things can't change, and probably/apparently have. But I guess I'm just not getting past the first impression and I think that will stand until the end of times. I wonder if that is why it's so hard to find people that write c, asm and cobol anymore ... It would drive the younger people mad with it's super arcane syntax and calls.