Global hiring platform Turing pulled from company data – which includes over two million developers and engineers working through the platform – to present the top 15 requested developer skills and the top five industries currently hiring the most.  

"An ever-increasing number of companies are leveraging from open-source technologies, moving to the cloud — GCP, AWS, Azure, and we are seeing companies launch large scale digital transformation initiatives. In turn this is creating greater demand for highly-skilled developers," Turing Founding Chief Revenue Officer Prakash Gupta told SDxCentral.

In order of demand, the top 15 requested developer skills include React, Python Node.js, JavaScript, Typescript, Java, SQL, Angular React, Native, AWS REST/RESTful APIs, PostgreSQL, C#, RubyonRails, CSS, and HTML.

And within the gathered industries, since April, Turing reported that artificial intelligence, fintech, healthtech/pharma, transportation, and entertainment have been leading the hiring landscape for developers and engineers.

"Each of these industries was impacted adversely during the pandemic" and are undertaking major operational shifts Gupta added. 

Turing uses their Talent Cloud to automatically vet, source, and manage engineers across the globe, offering access to international developers based on their certified skills rather than location.

The vetting engine looks at a variety of job types including frontend, DevOps, with a variety of training and skills such as React Node, Python, C Sharp, and finally Silicon valley-based engineering ladders like Ic4, Technical Lead to effectively source the platform’s developers.

Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth told SDxCentral that he has seen highest traffic for full stack developers, backend developers, and machine learning (ML) engineers, though Siddharth feels because the vetting engine is used to match across so many sectors, they “see it all.”

Siddharth added that companies in SaaS, health care, and crypto, before a cool down in the last year, are frequently seeking developers on their platform. 

“Typically we see geo preferences from companies in financial services [and] health care that are handling sensitive data,” Siddharth explained. But even in those cases, he is happy to see that those big roles can now be filled by someone in rural Kansas rather than the Bay Area.

“Because we have so much data across the industry, we can tell for example, if you’re a frontend developer, pick React not Angular. If you’re a machine learning engineer, pick TensorFlow and PyTorch not MXNet,” he explained. 

Siddharth wants Turing to help give developers access to understanding “what technologies are the ascendancy [and] what technologies are waning,” so they can focus on training that will get them work, regardless of where they’re based.