7 Most In-Demand Programming Languages of 2018:-Development of software is dynamic field. New and in-demand programming framework, languages & technologies are appear and preferred by the users and then after some years these are also fade away. Developers need to continuously focus on learning new skills to stay relevant. At Bscriptsource, we continuously evaluating which programming languages are in trend and highly demands by the businesses. There are so many ways are available to check the demanding of a particular language. But as we think reviewing the job demand is necessary to show the developers their skill set and what they should need to learn to improve the career prospects.
To accomplish the trending and most preferred programming languages we may an analyze the data from job website on 25 different programming languages, stacks & languages and find the 7 Most in-demand programming languages in 2018. This analysis of in-demand languages will be based on job postings for each programming language. Some programming languages such as Ruby and Swift doesn’t make their position in top seven because they have very low number of job posting even after web developers love these languages.
Here is the list of top seven in-demand languages in this year at bscriptsource.com
7 Most In-Demand Programming Languages of 2018
- Java:- Compared to 2017 the java has decreased the job posting by 6000 but still in-demand and is extremely well established. It is around 20 years old and used by millions of developers on billions of worldwide devices and able to run on any hardware & OS through the Java Virtual machine.
- Python:- The language grew in popularity with around 5000 job postings over the year 2017. Its an simple and general purpose language used for web development & as a support language for developers. Also it is used in data mining, scientific computing & machine learning.
- JavaScript:- JavaScript, also known as grandfather of programming languages is roughly popular today as it was in our previous post. It is not a surprise for us- JavaScript is used by 80% of developers & 95% of websites for any dynamic logic on webpages. Many front-end frameworks for JavaScripts like React & Angular JS have future potential as IOT & mobile devices gain the popularity.
- C++:- It gains only a very little bit of change in the popularity from 2017 to now. C++ is used for system & application software, system drivers, game development, client server applications & embedded frameworks. Many developers find C++ complicated & difficult to learn & use rather than other programming languages.
- C#:- Pronounced as C Sharp is slightly went down in this year. It is an object oriented programming language designed to run on Microsoft dot net and to make the development process easier. Similar to C++ it is widely used in video game development.
- Php:- It is a server side scripting language which moving on number six in this year over number nine in the last year. Most web developers use Php for development, either to add functionality with HTML can’t handle or to make interaction with MYSQL Databases.
- Perl:- It dropped by approx 3000 job posting & stayed in 7th place in the analysis. Perl 5 & 6 both are chugging along & perl continuously get popularity for system & network administrators.