Remote work statistics for April 2017

Hello HN. I see a lot of people here ask regularly what skills to learn to get a job they can do remotely. I aggregate remote jobs from the majority of job boards on my website. Here's a data dump I did today for you:

Top remote jobs (last 30 days)

    - JavaScript
    - Support
    - WordPress
    - PHP
    - Full Stack
    - WooCommerce
    - Ruby
    - React
    - Product Manager
    - Backend
    - Meteor JS
    - Machine Learning

Top remote jobs (last 90 days)

    - JavaScript
    - Ruby
    - Full Stack
    - Support
    - React
    - Product Manager
    - Meteor JS
    - Backend
    - PHP
    - Dev Ops
    - Marketing
    - WordPress

Fastest growing remote jobs (last 30 days)

    - Machine Learning
    - Laravel
    - Bootstrap
    - Node
    - Linux

Fastest dropping remote jobs (last 30 days)

    - Sales
    - Sys Admin
    - iOS
    - MongoDB
    - Android
    

The usual caveats apply, data scope is limited and there might be many more reasons for job categories to rise and fall outside of actually becoming more or less popular (for example, people hiring outside of job boards).

- @levelsio

(Source: Remote OK, https://remoteok.io/remote-work-statistics)