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Titles.

Who is hiring, December 2016

633 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 30 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 16% of them.

Titles in this thread

Change is in percentage points vs a year before

30 of 30 titles

#TitlePostsChange
1Full Stack Engineer16% · an example posting98+4.9
2Product Manager5.7% · e.g. Poki -36+0.4
3Data Engineer5.4% · e.g. Waldo Photos34+2.9
4Data Scientist5.2% · e.g. Influential33-1.5
5DevOps Engineer4.7% · e.g. ChowNow30+2.2
6Product Designer4.6% · e.g. AddStructure29+0.4
7Site Reliability Engineer3.0% · an example posting19+0.5
8Engineering Manager2.2% · an example posting14+0.2
9Platform Engineer2.2% · e.g. Chimu Trading14+0.5
10Solutions Engineer1.6% · e.g. Pivotal10+0.8
11Machine Learning Engineer1.6% · e.g. Recursion Pharmaceuticals10+0.5
12Data Analyst1.3% · e.g. Influential8+0.2
13Security Engineer1.3% · e.g. CloudFlare8+0.2
14Research Scientist0.90% · e.g. Amazon New Product Demand Forecasting6+0.3
15Design Engineer0.80% · e.g. 10x Genomics5+0.5
16Technical Product Manager0.60% · e.g. Blue Origin4+0.3
17Staff Engineer0.60% · e.g. Brightcove4+0.0
18Research Engineer0.50% · e.g. Neumitra3+0.5
19Computer Vision Engineer0.50% · e.g. TerrAvion3-0.1
20NLP Engineer0.30% · e.g. AddStructure2+0.0
21Head of Data0.30% · e.g. Axial2+0.3
22Analytics Engineer0.30% · e.g. Harry's2+0.3
23Developer Advocate0.20% · e.g. Skuid1-0.4
24Big Data Engineer0.20% · e.g. ParsonsCyber1-0.1
25Founding Engineer0.20% · e.g. Cloudstitch1+0.2
26Data Product Manager0.20% · an example posting1-0.1
27Blockchain Engineer0.20% · e.g. Artory1+0.2
28Applied Scientist0.20% · e.g. Facebook1+0.2
29Deep Learning Engineer0.20% · e.g. Matterport1+0.2
30Product Engineer0.20% · an example posting1-0.1
November 2016The thread on Hacker News January 2017

Sources: Hacker News Who is hiring threads and about 130 public job boards, read weekly. A title's share is not the job market's size.

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Monthly, the week after each Hacker News Who is hiring thread, only when a title moved.

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