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Who Is Hiring? Search Top 8 backend frameworks

Which Backend Framework Is Most in Demand on Hacker News? (Rails, Django, Spring, Laravel)

Which backend/web framework companies hire for in Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' posts: Rails, Django, Flask, Express, Spring, Laravel and Phoenix, charted by share of postings since 2011.

Explore Top 8 backend frameworks in the Who Is Hiring? tool

Ranked by demand (all-time)

  1. 1.Rails8,700 postings · peak Aug 2015
  2. 2.Django4,937 postings · peak Aug 2021
  3. 3.Flask1,376 postings · peak Aug 2015
  4. 4.Express1,283 postings · peak Aug 2021
  5. 5.Spring1,126 postings · peak Aug 2021
  6. 6.Phoenix662 postings · peak Aug 2021
  7. 7.Laravel574 postings · peak Feb 2021
  8. 8.Symfony293 postings · peak Jun 2017
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Job postings

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What the chart shows

Backend frameworks map almost one-to-one onto their language ecosystems, and the chart shows the generational handoff. Rails leads the early startup years as the default way to ship a web product; Django rises with Python and holds a durable base; Express tracks the Node wave; Spring carries the enterprise JVM demand; Laravel and Phoenix anchor the PHP and Elixir niches. Read the relative bands as a map of which server-side stack was fashionable when, and use the sample postings to see the kinds of companies that still hire for each - mature product shops for Rails, a broad startup-to-scale-up spread for Django and Express.

Popular Rails postings (the category leader)

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