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iOS vs Android: Which Mobile Platform Is Hired More on Hacker News?

iOS vs Android hiring demand on Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' posts. The mobile duopoly charted by share of postings since 2011, with the real job listings behind each bar.

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Job postings

Hover (or click) a bar segment to read the job postings that mention that term in that month.

Each calendar month since 2011 as one bar. Switch to share % to stack the bands to 100% and see each side’s slice of the Who is hiring? postings, narrow the window, or click any month to read the postings behind the bar.

How the lead changes hands

iOS versus Android is the mobile duopoly, year by year. The two move roughly together as the app economy booms and cools, trading small leads while the languages shift underneath - Objective-C to Swift, Java to Kotlin. The relative bands let you compare the slices directly. Read the sample postings to see how often a role wants both, or a cross-platform framework instead.

The real postings behind each

iOS16,839 postings · peak Aug 2021
  1. Quatt.io | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Full-time | Hybrid ONSITE | https: quatt.io | climate tech I'm head of Software at Quatt, a quickly growing scaleup building heatpumps to help fix climate change. Heating and cooling is 50% of all energy used in the EU. Heat pumps save 10…

  2. At CloudX ( https: cloudx.io ) we’re building a new supply-side advertising platform for mobile publishers. Yes, it's ads, and yes, there's AI involved, so stop reading here if that's not interesting to you. It's a gnarly infra problem with huge scale, combined with an…

  3. Matchie.io | Multiple Roles | Remote + Hybrid | $80k–$220k+ We're Matchie — a fast-growing AI-powered global jobs marketplace. We've recently closed our seed round and are scaling aggressively. We're hiring across Engineering, Sales, Marketing, HR, Operations, Finance, and more.…

Android7,640 postings · peak Aug 2015
  1. At CloudX ( https: cloudx.io ) we’re building a new supply-side advertising platform for mobile publishers. Yes, it's ads, and yes, there's AI involved, so stop reading here if that's not interesting to you. It's a gnarly infra problem with huge scale, combined with an…

  2. DuckDuckGo | Multiple Roles | Remote | Full-time | $178,500 - $320,000 USD + equity We are looking for candidates that are excited to join us on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. All of our roles are fully-remote, except where specific locations are noted. Most of…

  3. Pushscroll | Full-Stack Mobile Engineer (KMP) | REMOTE (GMT-3 to GMT+4) We make people do push-ups before opening addictive apps - verified through camera pose detection. Our goal is to replace doomscrolling with exercise. 500k+ downloads, bootstrapped and profitable, very…

The mobile duopoly in hiring demand, year by year.

Each on its own

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