Number of Jobs by Programming Language

The Viking writes "I was curious about which programming languages are hot with employers, so I did an informal search of several job search engines. The results are interesting (to me, at least). Are these numbers relevant? We can certainly debate whether or not the online job search engines are representative of the actual employment landscape."

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[cperciva]

That was quick. Here's the important part (without the table tags):

Number of Job Listings by Programming Language (January 3, 2003)

monster.com hotjobs.com dice.com %

Java 2739 1000* 1957 27.82%
C++ 2103 1000* 1534 22.65%
Visual Basic 2070 969 1127 20.35%
Perl 955 517 577 10.01%
Javascript 925 455 498 9.17%
C# 290 235* 183 3.46%
Ada 384 175 57 3.01%
Fortran 124 68 48 1.17%
Scheme 39* 138* 46* 1.09%
Python 58 43 33 0.65%
Smalltalk 42 27 32 0.49%
Lisp 12 4 9 0.12%

9741 4631 6101

* hotjobs.com changes a search of "C#" to a search of "C", so I averaged monster and dice.

* hotjobs.com limits the number of results that a query can return to 1000.

* Searching on the term "scheme" may result in false positives.

Re:Slashdotted

[Alien54]

here it is, made all pretty:

monster.com hotjobs.com dice.com %

Java 2739 1000 1957 27.82%
C++ 2103 1000 1534 22.65%
Visual Basic 2070 969 1127 20.35%
Perl 955 517 577 10.01%
Javascript 925 455 498 9.17%
C# 290 235 183 3.46%
Ada 384 175 57 3.01%
Fortran 124 68 48 1.17%
Scheme 39 138 46 1.09%
Python 58 43 33 0.65%
Smalltalk 42 27 32 0.49%
Lisp 12 4 9 0.12%

9741 4631 6101

Re:Slashdotted

[Lucas Membrane]

Yes, the percentage of new hires made by small companies is high. But don't give the small companies too much credit. The percentage of employment in small companies is much lower, however, as those who work in small companies tend to need to find work much more often.

The statistics look like this:

• About 20% of private US employment is in companies with fewer than 20 employees, but about half of that is in firms so small that you have zero chance of getting hired unless you are a good friend or relative.
• About 20% of private US employment is in firms with 20-99 employees.
• About 15% of civilian US employment is in the government sector (Fed/State/Local).

Re:Javascript is programming???

[Zontar The Mindless]

> (yes, I know you can do fairly large and complicated projects with [JavaScript], but come on... it's very limited as far as what it's able to do... (writing to files etc) )

That depends on the environment and what objects it exposes for scripting. There are a lot more implementations out there than you'd think:

1. You can use it (as JScript) serverside in ASP (or J# in ASP.Net) and for system tasks in Windows Scripting Host. (I do nearly all my ASP work using JScript.)
2. There is (or at least used to be -- haven't checked their site in a while) also a system & server scripting environment called ScriptEase that uses JavaScript and C.
3. Dreamweaver uses it for interface scripting (I'm talking about the program interface, not the JS/DHTML in DW-generated pages).
4. Adobe has a JavaScript API for PDFs.
5. Flash ActionScript is ECMAScript compliant and will look very familiar to anyone who's done clientside JS.
6. Mozilla uses XML (XUL and XBL, actually) and JavaScript to build its UI.

There are doubtless other examples.

Re:PHP???

[JimDabell]

Please troll elsewhere:

Yahoo Embraces PHP, Expands Open-Source Commitment

PHP Usage Stats

FYI, how PHP fares:

[Greedo]

PHP 189 224 31 2.12%

Which would put it somewhere between Fortran and Ada.

Re:Pity poor programmers: JOBS BY OPERATING SYSTEM

[iggymanz]

jobs by OS on dice: Windows 2229 Solaris 685 Linux 399 AIX 367 AS/400 or OS/400 287 HP/UX 191 Novell 165 VMS 61 Mac or MacOS or System 7 58 RTOS 58 VM 31 IRIX 18 BSD 18 OS/2 13 SCO 8 Darwin 6 BeOS 0 CHORUS 0 MINIX 0 HURD 0