Despite the fact that the new year 2024 is in full swing, we cannot pass by the analytics of the previous one. We studied what happened with hiring in the last quarter of 2023 – what specializations and qualifications were actively sought for Habr Careerwhich companies had the most vacancies and where they responded most often.

Spoiler: last quarter for the first time, a test automation engineer entered the top 5 in-demand specializations — he advanced mobile development.

Other answers are below.

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In total, in the fourth quarter of 2023, Habr Career could respond to 10,080 vacancies is 18% less than in the third quarter. Of them 67% – vacancies with deletion (+3%).

Who hired

As in ours annual rating of IT employersWe do not compare large companies with thousands of employees to small startups. The ranking of hiring companies is divided into four groups based on the size of organizations: huge (more than 5,000 employees), large (1,000-5,000 employees), medium (100-1,000 employees) and small (10-100 employees).

But in this rating, we collect the top 3 companies from all on Habr Career, which posted the most vacancies in the fourth quarter of 2023.

Hiring leaders by company size:

Who was hired?

In this block, we look at the specializations and qualifications that were most searched for in the 4th quarter of 2023.

Vacancies in specializations

We collected all the vacancies that the companies published in the 4th quarter – we remind you that there were 10,080 of them – we selected the specializations that were searched for more actively than others and compiled the top 5.

The most popular specialization at Habr Career remains backend: 2059 vacancies. In second place are vacancies for system analysts: only in the 4th quarter there were 1068 of them

For devops engineers and frontenders posted 571 and 488 vacancies, respectively — this is slightly less than in the 3rd quarter of 2023, but these specializations continue to be among the top 5 most in demand on Habr Career.

In fifth place, mobile game developers were replaced test automation engineers – There were 390 offers for them.

Vacancies for qualifications

The chart below shows the most searched qualifications on Habr Career.

as in the third quarteralmost half of the vacancies in which qualifications were indicated were for middles – 4,261. A third of vacancies were for seniors: 2,767. For leads in the 4th quarter of last year, 784 vacancies were posted, and for juniors – 314.

Offers for interns continue to distill Junes: 569 vacancies in three months.

Effective vacancies

We study the jobs that received the most reviews per view per quarter – we call this performance.

The most effective vacancy in the 4th quarter, Khabr Career was from the 2GIS company, which was looking for a project. 429 people viewed the vacancy, 167 of them responded.

In second and third place are vacancies for Data Analyst from Bell Integrator and Product Lead from SM Lab.

The efficiency of all vacancies can be seen in the far right column of the graph.

As we thought

It is not very difficult: to see how many vacancies the company published in the fourth quarter of 2023 (October, November, December), we took data from our service. We compiled all the vacancies that could be responded to during this period, then looked at who posted them, and divided the employers by company size. And then we simply selected the companies that posted the most jobs in the 4th quarter and brought them to you.

To calculate effective vacancies, we also needed data from our service, which is able to calculate the effectiveness of placements – the number of reviews divided by the number of views. We only had to choose vacancies with a high index.

And in order to make diagrams by specialists, we took all vacancies for the 4th quarter and filtered them according to the criteria we needed: specializations and qualifications.

Briefly about the main thing

• In the fourth quarter, it was possible to respond to Habr Career 10,080 vacancies — 18% less than in the third quarter of 2023.

• Among these vacancies 67% – with distance (+3%).

• Bell Integrator, MTS and Tinkoff are the companies that posted the most vacancies during the period.

• Most often, employers continued to look for backenders – the share of vacancies was 20% (-3%). The top 5 specializations for the quarter also included vacancies for test automation engineers – a share of 4% among all vacancies.

• Almost half of the vacancies in which the qualification was indicated were for middlemen – 4,261.

• There are still significantly more offers for interns than for juniors: 569 vacancies, 314 for juniors.

• The most effective vacancy in the 4th quarter on Habr Career was from the 2GIS company, which was looking for a project. 429 people viewed the vacancy, 167 of them responded.

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