The Job.zip Awards 2024! Top trends in AI, Databases, & Software

Your last dose of job tech trends before christmas!

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Remco Strijdonk
December 16, 2024

Hello there, and welcome to the Job.zip Awards 2024!
In the next week and a half, we’re sending out 3 emails with the top technology trends in jobs posted in 2024.
- Today, we’re sharing the top trends in: AI, Databases, and Software Languages, Frameworks & Libraries
- On Thursday we’re sharing the top trending tech job titles in 2024.
- Next week on Monday, we’re sharing the top overall trends in tech jobs.

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  • A trend is identified by the increase in employers who have posted at least one job featuring the trend in its job description.

  • The growth is measured by comparing the number of employers with these jobs posted between February–March and October–November.

  • Trends are ranked by percentage growth, and only those with at least 10 employers contributing to the trend are included in the list.

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📈 +95% Growth
30-60 employers

A machine learning approach where a model is trained to generalize from a small amount of data. It is essential for applications where collecting large datasets is impractical.

📈 +96% Growth
1k-2k employers

An AI technique in natural language processing that combines the strengths of retrieval-based and generation-based models. In RAG, a retrieval component first searches a large corpus of documents to find relevant information based on a given query.

📈 +97% Growth
40-80 employers

An AI technique that generates explanations alongside predictions, improving transparency and reliability.

📈 +104% Growth
200-400 employers

AI-enhanced refers to systems, tools, or technologies that have been improved or augmented by artificial intelligence capabilities to increase performance, efficiency, and functionality.

📈 +107% Growth
30-60 employers

A tool for managing and optimizing language model applications, providing insights and analytics for better performance.

📈 +130% Growth
25-50 employers

Refers to the process of assessing the performance, accuracy, and reliability of artificial intelligence models and systems.

📈 +131% Growth
30-60 employers

A type of artificial intelligence model that combines visual and language analysis to interpret and generate textual and visual content. Used in applications like image captioning, visual question answering, and multimodal search.

📈 +150% Growth
100-200 employers

An open-source library for natural language processing (NLP), providing pre-trained models and tools for building NLP applications.

14. Claude

📈 +154% Growth
175-350 employers

Claude is an AI developed by Anthropic, designed to engage in human-like conversations while maintaining ethical considerations and transparency.

13. vLLM

📈 +228% Growth
500-1k employers

A library designed for accelerated AI model inference utilizing advanced techniques for efficiency. It enhances large language models' performance on modern hardware architectures.

📈 +240% Growth
500-1k employers

An autonomous entity that uses artificial intelligence to perform tasks, make decisions, and interact with environments or users.

11. Ollama

📈 +287% Growth
30-60 employers

Ollama is an open-source framework designed for serving large language models (LLMs) locally on on-premise devices.

📈 +327% Growth
30-60 employers

A type of language model designed with fewer parameters and computation resources than large models. They can be used for lightweight applications and resource-constrained environments.

📈 +333% Growth
40-80 employers

An AI platform by Google designed to enhance machine learning workflows and model training.

8. DSPy

📈 +500% Growth
15-30 employers

DSPy is an open-source framework developed by Stanford NLP for programming language models, focusing on building modular AI systems rather than relying on traditional prompting.

📈 +771% Growth
30-60 employers

A wed Stable Diffusion interface optimized for workflow customization. It offers a modular framework with a graph/nodes interface to simplify creating and modifying image generation tasks, enhancing user experience and productivity.

📈 +1214% Growth
40-80 employers

An AI-powered code editor designed to enhance the productivity of software developers. It integrates advanced AI capabilities to assist with code completion, error detection, and refactoring, providing real-time suggestions and improvements as developers write code.

📈 +1240% Growth
30-60 employers

CrewAI is a Python framework designed for orchestrating role-playing, autonomous AI agents. It enables collaborative intelligence by allowing agents to work together seamlessly to tackle complex tasks.

📈 +2173% Growth
300-600 employers

Agentic refers to AI systems or agents that possess the ability to act autonomously, making decisions and performing tasks without direct human intervention.

3. FLUX

📈 +2300% Growth
15-30 employers

FLUX is an advanced diffusion model for AI image generation developed by Black Forest Labs. It offers exceptional speed, quality, and prompt adherence.

📈 +4650% Growth
100-200 employers

A tool or library for visualizing and managing language model workflows, enhancing understanding and optimization.

📈 Infinite Growth
30-60 employers

Agentforce is Salesforce's platform for building and deploying autonomous AI agents that support employees and customers 24/7.

  • A trend is identified by the increase in employers who have posted at least one job featuring the trend in its job description.

  • The growth is measured by comparing the number of employers with these jobs posted between February–March and October–November.

  • Trends are ranked by percentage growth, and only those with at least 10 employers contributing to the trend are included in the list.

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📈 +5% Growth
250-500 employers

An open-source columnar database management system designed for online analytical processing (OLAP) and real-time analytics.

📈 +9% Growth
30-60 employers

An open-source distributed SQL database designed for cloud-native applications. It offers high availability and horizontal scalability, making it ideal for global deployments.

📈 +19% Growth
15-30 employers

An open-source distributed SQL database designed for cloud-native applications. It offers high availability and horizontal scalability, making it ideal for global deployments.

📈 +21% Growth
150-300 employers

A database optimized for handling vector data, often used in applications like machine learning and spatial data analysis.

📈 +22% Growth
80-160 employers

A vector database that enables the storage, indexing, and querying of high-dimensional vector data, often used in machine learning applications.

📈 +27% Growth
20-40 employers

An open-source vector database optimized for similarity search operations.

📈 +30% Growth
150-300 employers

A NoSQL document database built for automatic scaling, high performance, and ease of application development, provided by Google Cloud.

📈 +55% Growth
70-140 employers

An open-source backend-as-a-service platform that provides real-time APIs, authentication, and database management for web and mobile applications. It offers features like instant RESTful APIs, real-time subscriptions, and managed PostgreSQL databases.

📈 +133% Growth
40-80 employers

An in-process SQL OLAP database management system designed for analytical query workloads, known for its performance and efficiency.

The Top 14 Software Languages, Frameworks & Libraries Job Trends in 2024

  • A trend is identified by the increase in employers who have posted at least one job featuring the trend in its job description.

  • The growth is measured by comparing the number of employers with these jobs posted between February–March and October–November.

  • Trends are ranked by percentage growth, and only those with at least 10 employers contributing to the trend are included in the list.

Is anything missing on the list? It might not have made it.
Not on Job.zip either? Please respond to this email with any expected trend you feel is missing from the platform!

📈 +25% Growth
800-1.6k employers

A utility-first CSS framework that provides low-level utility classes to build custom designs without writing CSS from scratch.

📈 +25% Growth
1k-2k employers

FastAPI is a modern, high-performance web framework for building APIs with Python. It is designed to be easy to use and fast, leveraging Python's type hints to provide automatic validation and documentation of API endpoints.

📈 +25% Growth
700-1.4k employers

A framework for developing applications powered by language models, enabling the integration of natural language processing capabilities into software.

11. tRPC

📈 +27% Growth
40-80 employers

A TypeScript library for building end-to-end typesafe APIs, allowing seamless communication between client and server.

📈 +39% Growth
70-140 employers

AutoGen is a framework designed to facilitate the creation of complex AI applications by enabling multiple large language models (LLMs) to collaborate as agents.

📈 +50% Growth
90-180 employers

A library in Python to write concurrent code using the async/await syntax. Allows for efficient management of I/O-bound operations.

8. Htmx

📈 +78% Growth
25-50 employers

A library that allows developers to access modern browser features directly from HTML, enabling dynamic web applications without JavaScript.

📈 +83% Growth
100-200 employers

A small, fast, and scalable state management library for React applications, known for its simplicity and flexibility.

📈 +111% Growth
12-24 employers

A framework for building tiny, fast, and secure desktop applications with Rust and web technologies.

📈 +137% Growth
60-120 employers

A collection of open-source libraries for building modern web applications, including tools for state management and data fetching.

📈 +200% Growth
40-80 employers

Shadcn is a collection of reusable components and utilities for building web applications using React. It provides a set of pre-designed, customizable components that adhere to modern design principles, making it easier for developers to create consistent and visually appealing user interfaces.

📈 +287% Growth
30-60 employers

Ollama is an open-source framework designed for serving large language models (LLMs) locally on on-premise devices.

2. DSPy

📈 +500% Growth
15-30 employers

DSPy is an open-source framework developed by Stanford NLP for programming language models, focusing on building modular AI systems rather than relying on traditional prompting.

📈 +1240% Growth
30-60 employers

CrewAI is a Python framework designed for orchestrating role-playing, autonomous AI agents. It enables collaborative intelligence by allowing agents to work together seamlessly to tackle complex tasks.

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