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Job Market for Developers Evaluated

Posted by Zonk on from the java-barista-coffee dept.

David Parmet writes "Using data from indeed.com (an aggregator for job sites), Brandon of devnulled did an evaluation of the state of the job market in the US for developers. Some interesting findings - there are more Linux jobs than Solaris jobs. Unix is still competitive with Windows (only 24,000 fewer job listings for Unix than for Windows), Java is beating .Net and overall there seem to be a lot of enterprise / corporate IT jobs available. Indeed has a web services API / XML interface available here, so if you want you can do the analysis yourself."

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  1. Java scripting by fembots · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The article mentioned it's relatively hard to compare Java to C# as Java is a fairly generic (and sometimes misused) keyword. I have seen companies who asked for JAVA experience, which in reality is expecting you to do Javascript.

    And did the analysis take into account that some "jobs" are posted by head hunters who are only interested in resumeh collection?

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  2. PennState Career Services by KingOfTheNerds · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Indeed i do not have to goto this website and do the stats for myself. I goto pennstate university and I work at the MBNA career center building where we find jobs for graduating students. We actually do our own job statistics for different departments to attempt to find out what we should push in their ciriculum. For instance we did notice that solaris has been declining for a few years now giving way to linux use, so the computer engineering/ comp sci department has switch to developing for linux from solaris. Using the data we get from recruiters, we try to keep our students top notch as far as demanded job skills.

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  3. That's My Site.. Good Luck Viewing It... by booms · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And guess what, it's on a Celeron 466 with 192 MB of RAM running on FreeBSD. I bet it died after the first 10 people got there.

    I have a new server coming in exactly tomorrow according to the last time I tracked it at UPS. Figures, eh?

    This is going to make finishing my final assignment for my current class rather interesting since I host it at home...

  4. Uh-oh by wumpus188 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Most of these "available" jobs are in fact advertisiments required by INS for someone's H1B.