Ahead of 2018, just as last year was dying off, software development bootcamp Coding Dojo crunched the data from Indeed.com’s dev jobs for its annual report on the most sought after programming languages.

After poring over thousands of job postings, the results were in: Java, heavily used for application building in the financial services industry, was once again leading the pack, with 62,000 job postings across the country.

But unlike Java, which decreased in popularity by about 6,000 jobs from the previous yearly analysis, Python rose in popularity by about 5,000 jobs and claimed the number two spot. Python, a general purpose language first released in 1991, has seen a steady uptick in usage over the past eight years, perhaps driven by its frequent use in fields like data analysis, artificial intelligence and machine learning.

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