A common challenge for most startups is finding great technical talent. Having great business ideas are a dime a dozen, but finding team members who can build the great new “unicorns” is the challenge of most entrepreneurs.
Stack Overflow, a prominent developers portal, just released a study of over 100,000 developers.
In it, the “types” of developers who contributed to the study were listed. But for the fun of more keywords data being shared, we decided to see which developers were most sought after on google.
List of Developer Roles provided by Stack Overflow:
Types Most Searched – Developers:
“designers” 7,595,760 searches/mo (221 permutations); “designer”: 450,000/mo
“web developer” 2,230,220 searches/mo (578 permutations); “web developer”: 165,000/mo
“mobile developer” 1,359,060 searches/mo + 7,161,140/mo (“android developer”) + 2,370,680/mo (“ios developer”); 135,000 + 33,100 + ? (mobile development has 8,100/mo searches, but might be higher than “mobile developer”)
“business analyst” 652,480 searches/mo (592 permutations); business analyst: 90,500/mo
“full stack developer” 1,442,370 searches/mo (654 permutations); full stack developer: 60,500/mo
“product manager” 2,496,140 searches/mo (635 permutations); product manager: 60,500/mo
“front end developer” 1,251,100 searches/mo (701 permutations); front end developer: 49,500/mo
“database administrator” 3,166,440 searches/mo (701 permutations); database administrator: 27,100 searches/mo
“system administrator” 657,480 searches/mo (575 permutations); system administrator: 27,100/mo
Other related searches:
- sysadmin: 18,100/mo
- network administrator: 18,100/mo
“back end developer” 1,048,920 searches/mo (682 permutations); back end developer: 18,100/mo
“qa engineer” (or “qa tester”) 1,671,620 searches/mo (628 permutations); “qa engineer”: 14,800/mo
“seo expert”: 12,100; “seo consultant”: 12,100/mo;”seo specialist” 9900/mo; “seo manager”: 6600/mo; “seo analyst”: 4,400/mo; “seo”: 673,000
“data Analysts”:
- big data analyst: 1600/mo
- business data analyst: 1300/mo
- data scientist role: 880/mo
- big data scientist: 720/mo
- it data analyst: 260/mo
“ppc expert”: 1300/mo; “ppc specialist”: 1300/mo; “ppc consultant”: 1000/mo; “adwords specialist”: 1000/mo; “adwords consultant”: 1000/mo;”adwords expert”: 880/mo; “google adwords expert”: 590/mo; “pay per click consultant”: 590/mo; “sem analyst”: 390/mo
“devops specialist” ?
“enterprise developer” ?
*Many “web developer” searches along with “app developer” searches were included in the 5 million+ searches on “like terms”
“machine learning specialist” ?
“desktop application developer” ?
