Vue: market

Vacancy

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Observed candidate

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Window

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The Vue Junior market is smaller than React (fewer openings), but competition for roles is also lower. The Junior → Middle jump — TypeScript + Composition API + Pinia + testing via Vitest. Senior owns Vue-SPA architecture + design system. Lead — managing 3-5 Vue developers. Career flow: Junior Vue → Middle → Senior → Frontend Lead / Fullstack (Vue+Node) / Staff Frontend Engineer.

Top 5: vue, typescript, javascript, rest, git. Vue 3 — must (Composition API + <script setup> + provide/inject + Suspense). Vue 2 still in legacy projects (Options API). TypeScript — must, 90%+ of new projects. Pinia — state-management standard since 2022 (replaced Vuex as the official choice). Vuex — legacy in existing codebases. Nuxt 3 — meta-framework for SSR/SSG/static (must for production Vue). Vue Router 4. Vite — dominator build tool. VueUse — utility composables. UI kits: Vuetify (Material Design dominator), PrimeVue, Naive UI, Quasar (cross-platform). Styling: Tailwind CSS, UnoCSS, CSS Modules. Testing: Vitest (must) + Vue Test Utils + Playwright/Cypress. Knowledge of Composition API + reactivity internals (ref/reactive/computed/watch) — Senior must.

Vue 3 — in 2nd-3rd place by frontend-job volume in CIS. Cleaner DX, Composition API + <script setup>, batteries-included (Vue Router + Pinia from the official ecosystem), excellent documentation. Fewer openings than React, but Senior Vue ≈ Senior React or slightly higher (scarcer supply). React — dominator (60-70% of frontend jobs). The largest Junior+Middle market. Huge ecosystem, React Native is a mobile bonus. Angular — third place in CIS. Opinionated framework (DI + RxJS + TS out of the box), dominates banking/enterprise. Senior Angular premium 10-15% over Senior React. Strategy: React first for market size, then optionally Vue/Angular for diversification. If you already know Vue — a Senior Vue career is fully viable without retraining on React.

Nuxt 3 — Vue's meta-framework (Vue's analogue to React's Next.js). SSR/SSG/SSR-streaming out of the box, file-based routing, server routes (~Express in a Vue context), image optimisation, SEO frontend. Used by production Vue teams, e-commerce, content sites, product SaaS. Senior Nuxt 3 — premium skill +10-15% over plain Vue. Plain Vue + Vite — for admin panels, dashboards, embedded widgets, lightweight SPA. Junior can start with plain Vue + Vite. Strategy: Vue core first (3-6 months), then Nuxt 3 as the natural extension. If you work in a product team with SSR/SEO requirements — Nuxt is mandatory.

Yes, 51% of Vue jobs are full-remote or hybrid. Frontend is maximally remote-friendly by nature. Russian product companies — hybrid or remote after probation. Startups and international SaaS — fully remote. Relocant hubs for Russian-speaking Vue developers: Dubai, Cyprus (Limassol), Lisbon, Tbilisi, Yerevan, Bali, Serbia (Belgrade). English — must for international remote with a premium +20-40% on salary. International Vue shops (GitLab — Vue team, Statamic, Storyblok) — full-remote premium.

Vue 3 right away — that's the lock. Vue 2 EOL (end of life) was 2023-12-31, official support has ended. However, thousands of Vue 2 codebases are still in production, especially at large product companies where the migration isn't finished. If you land on a team with a Vue 2 project — you'll have to know the Options API (Vue 2 syntax) for maintenance. But NEVER start a new project on Vue 2. The Composition API (Vue 3) differs significantly from the Options API (Vue 2) — they're different mental models. Junior should learn ONLY Vue 3 + Composition API + <script setup> from the very start.

Roadmap: 1) HTML5 + CSS3 + Flexbox + Grid — MDN/freeCodeCamp. 2) JavaScript ES6+ — async/await, modules, destructuring. "You Don't Know JS" Simpson, "Eloquent JavaScript". 3) TypeScript — types, generics, narrowing. 4) Vue 3 + Composition API — official tutorial vuejs.org/tutorial + Vue Mastery (Gregg Pollack — best Vue teacher). Master ref/reactive/computed/watch + <script setup>. 5) Pinia — state management. 6) Vue Router 4 — navigation. 7) Vite — build tool. 8) Nuxt 3 — official learn course nuxt.com/docs. 9) Tailwind CSS or UnoCSS. 10) Vitest + Vue Test Utils + Playwright for testing. 11) Pet project: SPA or Nuxt 3 dashboard with auth + REST API + Pinia + Vitest + Playwright e2e, deployed on Vercel/Netlify. Courses: Karpov.Courses "Vue Developer" (growing course), Vue Mastery (EN — best), Yandex.Practicum "Frontend Developer", Hexlet. Time to Junior — 6-12 months full-time.

116 active open Vue positions in the Zorky CRM sample — the second-largest frontend segment after React. Geography: Russia / Poland / remote. The real market is broader than the sample thanks to the huge international remote (GitLab + Y Combinator startups). Time to close a Senior Vue role — 3-5 weeks.

A Senior Vue owns the full frontend cycle. Vue 3 mastery: Composition API patterns (composables design), reactivity internals (ref/reactive/computed/watch — when which), <script setup> idiom, provide/inject + Suspense + Teleport. TypeScript: generics, conditional types, type-safe Pinia stores + Vue components. Pinia: store composition, plugins, separation of server-state vs client-state. Performance: profiling via Vue DevTools, code-splitting, lazy loading, virtualisation (vue-virtual-scroller), v-memo / v-once optimisation, bundle analysis (Vite Bundle Analyzer). Nuxt 3: server routes, useFetch / useAsyncData, SSR rendering modes, image optimisation, SEO meta. Architecture: design system + UI kit on Vue, Atomic Design, monorepo with pnpm + Turborepo. Testing: 70%+ coverage, Vitest + Vue Test Utils + MSW for API mocks, Playwright for e2e. Accessibility: WCAG 2.1 AA, ARIA roles, keyboard navigation. Web Vitals: LCP/FID/CLS optimisation, Lighthouse 90+. Soft: code review, mentoring, communication with designer/backend. English for Senior+ must — for GitLab/international remote.