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Remote work statistics for April 2017
Hello HN. I see a lot of people here ask regularly what skills to learn to get a job they can do remotely.
I aggregate remote jobs from the majority of job boards on my website. Here's a data dump I did today for you:
Top remote jobs (last 30 days)
- JavaScript
- Support
- WordPress
- PHP
- Full Stack
- WooCommerce
- Ruby
- React
- Product Manager
- Backend
- Meteor JS
- Machine Learning
Top remote jobs (last 90 days)
- JavaScript
- Ruby
- Full Stack
- Support
- React
- Product Manager
- Meteor JS
- Backend
- PHP
- Dev Ops
- Marketing
- WordPress
Fastest growing remote jobs (last 30 days)
- Machine Learning
- Laravel
- Bootstrap
- Node
- Linux
Fastest dropping remote jobs (last 30 days)
- Sales
- Sys Admin
- iOS
- MongoDB
- Android
The usual caveats apply, data scope is limited and there might be many more reasons for job categories to rise and fall outside of actually becoming more or less popular (for example, people hiring outside of job boards).
- @levelsio
(Source: Remote OK, https://remoteok.io/remote-work-statistics https://remoteok.io/remote-work-statistics)
- ramijames 10y agoI just want to say that I love working with Laravel and am glad to see it growing.
- ed_balls 10y agoHow come Xamarin tag exists, but there is no python?
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- santiagobasulto 10y agoMakes no sense. After a quick search on StackOverflow for remote jobs I see: - 32 JS offers: http://stackoverflow.com/jobs?sort=i&l=Remote&d=20&u=Km&tl=javascript+ http://stackoverflow.com/jobs?sort=i&l=Remote&d=20&u=Km&tl=j... - 15 Python offers: http://stackoverflow.com/jobs?sort=i&l=Remote&d=20&u=Km&tl=python+ http://stackoverflow.com/jobs?sort=i&l=Remote&d=20&u=Km&tl=p... - 10 PHP offers: http://stackoverflow.com/jobs/developer-jobs-using-php-in-remote?sort=i http://stackoverflow.com/jobs/developer-jobs-using-php-in-re... - 8 Ruby offers: http://stackoverflow.com/jobs/developer-jobs-using-ruby-in-remote?sort=i http://stackoverflow.com/jobs/developer-jobs-using-ruby-in-r...
- pieterhg 10y agoSome jobs are reposted repeatedly, I don't count these as new jobs.
- tmat 10y agowaits patiently for elixir jobs
- sahrizv 10y agowaits restlessly for elixir jobs... :) Seriously, left my decently paying Tech Lead job in Bangalore to take a break and work with Elixir/OTP. Would be nice to see an upward trend in Elixir related remote jobs.
- tmat 10y agobest thing those of us championing elixir can do is build apps in elixir that need to be maintained.. the more elixir apps in the wild, the more jobs we can create. my studio is doing all of our greenfield backend work in elixir and we're all very happy with our current stack. haven't been this happy since the early days of rails. elixir and react are a match made in heaven.
- sahrizv 9y agoAgree that's a big way to create more jobs. Currently building for myself, hope to do it for others too in the long run.
- veraxlabs 10y agoI'm thinking of experimenting with Elixir for my project. Ping me and we might be able to work something out. psl [at] veraxlabs [dot] com
- sotojuan 10y agoWith new-ish languages like these, the best thing to do is make your own job :-)
- tmat 10y agoI was kidding that's what we're doing.. I run a studio focusing on elixir, react, and react native. we started as a ruby shop.
- pieterhg 10y agoUpdate: did a new data dump with a broader range of job boards, data is almost same but some tiny differences: Top remote jobs (last 30 days) - JavaScript - Full Stack - React - Ruby - Support - PHP - Marketing - Product Manager - WordPress - Dev Ops - Backend - Meteor JS Top remote jobs (last 90 days) - JavaScript - Ruby - Full Stack - Support - React - Product Manager - Meteor JS - Backend - PHP - Dev Ops - Marketing - WordPress Fastest growing remote jobs (last 30 days) - Bootstrap - Machine Learning - Redux - Linux - Copywriting - Laravel - Admin - Customer Support - Node - Python - React Native - AWS Fastest dropping remote jobs (last 30 days) - Rails - Mobile - Ruby on Rails - Postgres - CSS - Video - Social Media - iOS - Remote - MongoDB - Android - Ecommerce (Source: Remote OK, https://remoteok.io/remote-work-statistics https://remoteok.io/remote-work-statistics)
- throwaway13337 10y agoThese looks like they could just as well be stats for movement in non-remote work offers. It might be useful to do a comparison.
- Brajeshwar 10y agoThe interesting thing with Remote is that most companies these days "allows remote" as part of their package. Not a statistical data but I can see it[1] more often these days, whilst looking at our internal tool[2] that we used to look for new interesting prospects for consulting. 1. https://www.dropbox.com/s/b937olnwswwkwlm/getbetterluck-2017APR25.png?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/b937olnwswwkwlm/getbetterluck-2017... 2. We aggregate lots of well-known to lesser-known job boards for our internal consumption. Cleaning it up a bit. Will release it to public in about a month's time. https://getbetterluck.com/ https://getbetterluck.com/ P.S. If you're looking for a job either full-time, contract or freelance, you might like to try this. Ping me if you need very alpha test access now.
- parennoob 10y ago> The interesting thing with Remote is that most companies these days "allows remote" as part of their package. This question goes for the original post too -- but how many of these are truly remote? i.e. I can work for the majority of the year remotely, with maybe one or two visits to the company main office, if that. Asking because I see far too many companies these days trying to brand themselves as remote-friendly, when they really mean something with far less freedom, like “We'll maybe allow you to work from home two days out of five”.
- Brajeshwar 10y agoWell, when they mention "allows remote", it is mostly not remote (work anywhere, wherever you like, just get things done) from what I gather. This is from a British company in London, "because we love family, and are a family company, we will allow 2 days a week for you to work from anywhere." :-)
- pythonaut_16 10y agoI think it's definitely a spectrum. To me the most important binary distinction is whether it's "remote friendly" meaning you can work from home if you give an excuse, and remote friendly meaning it's expected that you'll be working remotely on a regular basis. Once you're in that second category there's range from "work from home one to several days a week" and "never set foot in the office again"
- maxxxxx 10y agoDamn. Nothing with C, C++ or C#.
- kw0lf 10y agoI was thinking the same thought :-)
- pjmlp 10y agoIt is relatively easy to get C# remote positions specially for web applications (WPF and UWP not so much), the problem is with C and C++, as they are being pushed down the software stack. So most C and C++ greenfield projects happen to require physical access to hardware that cannot leave the company premises.
- sidlls 10y agoMost of the positions identified are in the "low pay webdev" category. I don't mean low pay in comparison with median incomes nation wide. I mean low pay in comparison with the industry. I wonder how many of those WordPress "jobs" are really $35/hr 6-month contracts or low fixed-rate projects, for example.
- pieterhg 10y agoThis is not cheap Upwork positions. This is companies payinf $200 to $400 for a single job post. Therefore salary is probably in the $2,000 to $5,000 range at least. Remember many companies use WordPress as part of their website and it might be "part of" the stack.
- gamebak 10y agoInteresting, how about adding them into a graph and show it on a weekly basis? I always wondered, plus if you could do something like avg salary and such... and evolution. Also to take in consideration the country and inflation over there, plays a big role. What do you think about this?
- pieterhg 10y agoI have them now in a graph per quarter (90 days), see https://remoteok.io/remote-work-statistics https://remoteok.io/remote-work-statistics
- 27182818284 10y agoReally surprised to see how high up Meteor is on that list. As an early Meteor fan, it felt like its growth had stagnated over the last year or two.
- cheriot 10y agoKeep in mind that it's data from only his site so it's got the noise of a small dataset.
- pieterhg 10y agoYep. This is an analysis on 1,950 remote jobs in the last 90 days. This is a somewhat representative sub set of most job boards remote jobs as I aggregate from there but it's indeed not the whole remote work market obviously.
- Kiro 10y agoA lot of people will probably disagree with me but I'm not a fan of remote work and don't think it suits most companies. So many employees like to slack and procrastinate. At all the companies I've been at people will instantly open Facebook, reddit or HN as soon as management can't see their screens. It's so easy to wing some BS at the daily stand-up that makes it look like you're productive. No-one really questions how long things take and even if it puts you in unnecessary crunches sometimes to catch up to some deadline you still do it. Working from home is like haven for slackers. No-one can see your screen and you can do whatever you want. I'm sure there are people that are highly effective working from home but I think those are in minority.
- emperorcezar 10y agoIf management can't find a way to measure output, then having butts in seats isn't gonna fix that. That's a management problem.
- jcadam 10y agoClojure's gonna take off any day now, I just know it... any day.... I'm surprised I don't see Java (could be included in 'Backend', I suppose). As a JVM guy who's always wanted a remote gig I find your list depressing.
- eip 10y agoI have been working remote for 8+ years doing JVM stuff. Lots of jobs that are not listed as being remote can usually be convinced to allow it.
- leojg 10y agoAnybody knows the reason for the drop in mobile/android postings? Less demand in general?