27 Jan 2012

Demand for jobs related with APIs.

This quick search on Indeed demonstrates the thesis that we have always believed at Mashape. More and more developers are required to grow the API economy. Startups, are starting to hire API evangelists and API engineers. And we should note that those positions would never have existed just 5 years ago.

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2008: ~   50% growth Y/Y
2009: ~   75% growth Y/Y
2010: ~ 100% growth Y/Y
2011: ~ 130% growth Y/Y
2012: + 150% growth Y/Y

 

Indeed.com searches millions of jobs from thousands of job sites, this job trends graph shows relative growth for jobs we find matching "API".