GoLang Job Market Trends for 2020
A presentation at Atlanta Go User Group in January 2020 in Atlanta, GA, USA by Ari Waller
GoLang Job Market Trends for 2020
AGENDA Brief Bio IT Job Market GoLang Job Market 6 Career “C’s” Q&A
Ari Waller ● Meetup Community Manager ● 23 years in Information Technology Recruiting Email me: ariw@jfrog.com @ariwaller ● Passionate about Technology Careers Paths ● Father of many!
How’s the Job Market? • Unemployment 3.5% (Dec 2019) • IT Unemployment 1.3% (May 2019) Copyright @ 2019 JFrog - All rights reserved.
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So what does this mean for
TIOBE Index for January 2020 ● An indicator of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month ● The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. Popular search engines ● TIOBE index is not about the best programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been written
Go was #14 for January 2020 and Language of the year in 2009 and 2016
Language Python Java JavaScript Node.js Ruby “GoLang” Remote GoLang
Robert Pike Robert Griesemer and Ken Thompson Runtime efficiency Concurrency Performance
Professional Uses for GoLang Distributed Network Services Cloud Native Development (Kubernetes / Docker) Replacement for existing aged infrastructure Tools, Utilities and Stand Alone Programs
Go is quickly become a core language The job opportunities are increasing Version 2.0 will lead to increased adoption Remote opportunities will increase
6 Career C’s
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