The Decline of The American Programmer

I decided to go on a rampage and to gather some Google Trends data over the last year on keyword searches related to programming.  Globally this is what I found-

Search Term	Top 3 Cities Globally
ASP.Net	New Okhla Industrial Development Area, Hyderabad, Gurgaon
SQL	New Okhla Industrial Development Area, Gurgaon, Hyderabad
C#	New Okhla Industrial Development Area, Hyderabad, Chennai
MySQL	Beijing, New Okhla Industrial Development Area, Shanghai
iOS	Singapore, Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi (San Francisco 6th, New York 9th)
Actionscript	Beijing, Seoul, Saint Petersburg (San Francisco 9th)
Android	Tehrān, Jakarta, Surabaya
Java	Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai
Microsoft SQL Server	New Okhla Industrial Development Area, Gurgaon, Hyderabad
Photoshop	Manila, Ho Chi Minh City, Surabaya
javascript	New Okhla Industrial Development Area, Beijing, Hyderabad
Node.js	Beijing, Shanghai, Seoul (San Jose 4rth, San Francisco 5th, Seattle 7th, Austin 8th)
AngularJS	Beijing, New Okhla Industrial Development Area, Shanghai (San Francisco 4th, San Jose 7th)
PHP	Dhaka, Ahmedabad, Chennai
C++	Beijing, Shanghai, Bangalore
HTML5	New Okhla Industrial Development Area, Hyderabad, Chennai

Although searching on key words alone might paint a slanted picture, the over-all take away is that most of the programming is being done in India and China. The future belongs to those with the know-how to make it happen. Increasingly that future is belonging less and less to Americans.

Just out of curiosity I also compared some base programming languages to each other to see how they stacked up as far as traffic.

It seems the world is betting on Google's Android OS for the future. .