Python could soon be the most popular programming language, battling it out for top spot with JavaScript, Java and C, depending on which language ranking you look at.

Python, Java and SQL could be your hot ticket to developer jobs in 2022. Written by Owen Hughes, Senior Editor March 11, 2022 at 5:17 a.m. PT These top programming languages will get you hired.

SQL rises to the forefront of programming languages Most notable, Cass observed, is the rising popularity of SQL, which is at No. 1 in the IEEE’s jobs ranking.

Just as open-source development revolutionized SQL, it also rejuvenated programming languages that work with data. Languages like Python and R, though dating back to the 1990s, are relatively new ...

SEE: Learn more about how Python became the hottest programming language. SQL. SQL is the de facto standard programming language used by many of the most popular database servers worldwide.

According to a survey by StackOverflow, Python is the third most widely used programming language, not counting HTML, behind only JavaScript and the database query language SQL. The survey found ...

Python saw a whopping increase of 9.3% in the Tiobe popularity index during 2024, despite already being rated the most popular programming language. ... SQL, 2.41%; Visual Basic, 2.37% ...