I counted the tools in Indonesian tech job ads before and after ChatGPT

A developer at Indonesian job site LokerDollar analyzed 118,545 archived Southeast Asian job ads from 2019 to 2026, comparing 1,800 pre-ChatGPT tech ads with 2,187 post-ChatGPT ads from two major Indonesian office job boards. The analysis found AI tools named in only 1 in 76 Indonesian tech ads versus 1 in 13 Hacker News "Who is hiring?" posts, while CI/CD, PostgreSQL, Azure, Power BI and Next.js mentions rose and JavaScript, React, PHP and Node.js mentions fell. The developer cautioned that most shifts are small and should be treated as leads, noting that TikTok appears in 1 in 20 Indonesian job ads against 1 in 316 naming an AI tool.

I run LokerDollar, a job site for Indonesia. For a research series I read 118,545 archived job ads from Southeast Asia, 2019 to 2026, and compared what they asked for before ChatGPT to October 2022 and after from January 2023 . This post is the tech slice: ads whose title names a software, data, IT, QA or DevOps job on the two biggest Indonesian office job boards. That is 1,800 ads before and 2,187 after. Since 2023, 1 in 13 Hacker News "Who is hiring?" tech posts names an AI tool such as ChatGPT or Copilot. In Indonesian tech job ads it is 1 in 76. Same word list on both sides, same kinds of roles. | Tool | Before | After | |---|---|---| | CI/CD | 5.2% | 8.2% | | PostgreSQL | 8.0% | 10.5% | | Azure | 3.2% | 5.3% | | Figma | 2.4% | 4.6% | | SQL Server | 4.7% | 6.8% | | Power BI | 0.9% | 2.9% | | GCP | 4.8% | 6.6% | | Kubernetes | 3.4% | 5.1% | | Python | 13.2% | 14.8% | | Next.js | 0.6% | 2.1% | | Tool | Before | After | |---|---|---| | JavaScript | 28.3% | 21.8% | | React | 16.2% | 11.0% | | PHP | 14.3% | 9.7% | | Node.js | 11.2% | 7.9% | | Linux | 10.1% | 7.2% | | Git | 21.0% | 18.3% | | jQuery | 6.2% | 3.5% | | Automation testing | 6.6% | 3.9% | | Angular | 6.9% | 4.6% | | Java | 16.2% | 14.0% | JavaScript and React falling does not mean nobody wants web developers. Web-developer titles were 32.4% of tech ads before and 25.1% after, so part of the drop is fewer web jobs, not less JavaScript per web job. Inside web-developer ads alone, Next.js went from 1.5% to 6.5% and Tailwind from 0.5% to 5.5%. Most of these moves are small, and many are flat on the other boards and countries we read. Treat them as leads. The bigger story in Indonesia is not code. Since 2023, 1 in 20 Indonesian job ads names TikTok, against 1 in 316 that names an AI tool. CapCut went from 1 in 17,058 ads to 1 in 73. The full write-up, with a tool where you pick a job and see what its ads ask for now: https://lokerdollar.com/en/research/pandoras-box-ep1-ai-job-ads-2026?utm source=devto&utm medium=social&utm campaign=pandoras-box&utm content=kelvin https://lokerdollar.com/en/research/pandoras-box-ep1-ai-job-ads-2026?utm source=devto&utm medium=social&utm campaign=pandoras-box&utm content=kelvin