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Objective-C

Objective-C appeared in 1 hiring posts in August 2026 — roughly 0.2% of all jobs. Currently #21 of 25 languages.

Mentions · August 2026
1
mentions
this month
12-Mo TrendSep '25 Aug '26
Share of All Jobs
0.2%
All-Time Peak
9mentions · March 2013
First Seen
April 2011
Month Momentum
§ 01Demand Signal

Mention history

Annual averages give the long-run shape without the monthly noise; the last two years are zoomed in below.

All-time mentions
388since April 2011 · 185 months
38
'15
58
PEAK
'16
44
'17
37
'18
15
'19
5
'20
14
'21
7
'22
12
'23
0
'24
2
'25
1
'26

Total mentions, by year · hatched column = year still in progress

All-time
388185 mo
↑ Best year
201658
↓ Quietest full year
20240
Latest full year
20252
§ 02Compensation

What Objective-C jobs pay

Disclosed USD pay over the past 3 years (2023–Present). Single months are too sparse to band.

Pay over the past 3 years · 2023–Present

Not enough disclosed pay across all Objective-C roles to band a single median, but some seniority levels clear the floor below.

By seniority
Senior n=4
Staff+ n=4

Bar = p25 to p75 · tick = median. Senior & Staff+ shown hatched below the 10-sample floor.

Disclosed
8of 20 posts
Disclosure rate
40.0%
§ 03Footprint

Where Objective-C is hired

Regions
Top geographies

Share of Objective-C posts by where the role is based.

01
United States100.0%
1
Remote Policy
100%remote
Remote
100.0%
Hybrid
0.0%
On-site
0.0%
§ 04Composition

Who hires for Objective-C

By Seniority
Roles by level
01
Senior100.0%
1
By Function
Roles by function
01
Engineering100.0%
1
§ 05Technical Skills

Swift is the skill most co-mentioned with Objective-C.

#01
Signature Stack
Objective-C’s strongest
pairings

Skills with the highest lift when co-listed with Objective-C over 2023–Present.

Top-Lift Pairs · 2023–Present
Bigtable
136.5×
Swift
47.8×
MacOS
47.2×

Lift = how much more likely to co-appear than by chance

Common Stacks · Top co-mentioned skills2023–Present
01Swift5883%
02Go4260%
03iOS3956%
04Google Cloud3550%
05Rust3550%
06Kubernetes3144%
07TypeScript3043%
08C2739%
09C++2637%
10MacOS2637%
11NLP2637%
12Java2333%
13Android2231%
14BigQuery1927%
15Bigtable1927%

% of Objective-C jobs also mentioning the skill · 2023–Present

Peer Comparison · LanguagesWhere Objective-C stands among languages
SkillMentionsYoYMarket share
0143-2.3%
10.0%
02380.0%
8.8%
0311-48%
2.6%
0410-29%
2.3%
0510+67%
2.3%
068+60%
1.9%
077+17%
1.6%
086+50%
1.4%
0930.0%
0.7%
103-77%
0.7%
11
Objective-Cyou are here
1
0.2%

Percentage of jobs mentioning the skill · August 2026

§ 06Sponsorship

Visa support stays a minority signal across the thread.

Visa Sponsorship
12 posts offer sponsorship
2.8%
Offer sponsorship
122.8%
Explicitly decline
81.9%
Don’t mention
41095.3%

Based on 430 HN job posts in August 2026. Visa policy is not broken down per language — these rates cover all postings in the thread.