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Are There More Java Jobs Than .NET Jobs? US Job Market for Developers (Informally) Examined

Brandon Harper Conducts "Informal" Survey Based on Indeed.com Data
By Brandon Harper
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March 8, 2005 12:00 AM EST
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I don't view this informal querying of a job aggregator to be the end-all absolute truth, nor do I really view it as a scientifically sound study, but I wanted just to make public last week the results of an job-market survey I compiled recently using data from indeed.com (an aggregator for job sites).

I found it interesting that I was able to search a large percentage of the jobs available in the US and wanted to compare some various technology related keywords.

The results, arranged by programming languages and platform architectures, were as follows:

  1. Java (-barista -coffee) 53,618
  2. .NET 47,651
  3. C++ 35,322
  4. Perl 19,432
  5. Visual Basic (or vb -visual basic and -visualbasic) 18,508
  6. C# 14,319
  7. ASP (asp -asp.net -.net) 12,100
  8. C programmer (and c developer -programmer) 11,711
  9. Cobol 6,713
  10. Flash 6,353
  11. ASP.NET (-asp) 5,644
  12. PHP 4,194
  13. ColdFusion (and cold fusion -coldfusion) 3,360
  14. Delphi 1,122 
Here too is a set of results arranged by OS:
  1. Windows (-glass -frame -sunroom -sunroof -tint -replacement -retrofit) 87,790
  2. Unix 63,524
  3. Linux 24,193
  4. Solaris 19,263
  5. AIX 9,291
  6. Hpux (and hp-ux -hpux) 5,134
  7. Irix 540
  8. FreeBSD 433
  9. SCO 414
There are more Linux jobs open now than Solaris jobs. I suppose there's a reason Sun is working hard to try and gain back customers that are bleeding off to Linux based solutions. Though it's certainly cost-effective to take the Linux & Intel path, there will always be a market for 'big iron' in one way or another think despite its shrinkage in the last few years.
 

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Brandon Harper has been programming in ColdFusion since 1998 and also actively writes applications in Python and Java. He is currently a Senior Software Developer at Acxiom where he works on an enterprise service platform which powers their risk mitigation products. Brandon was also a technical editor for Inside ColdFusion MX, and maintains a blog at devnulled.com.

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Carl Williams 10/02/07 04:49:26 PM EDT

You can make comparison of various IT skill sets at http://www.odinjobs.com/US_job_market_overview.html
Brandon Harper 03/08/05 07:15:40 PM EST

Before you get too outraged by this "article", please know that this was originally a blog post of mine back in December 2004 just playing around very late one night on Indeed.com; not a heavily researched technical article that I would submit for publication.

It's been blown-up WAY out of proportion, has been Slashdotted, etc. What you see posted here is selected copy & pasted material out of my original blog post. I just approved of it assuming it was going to end-up in the ColdFusion Developers Journal.. I had no idea it was being posted to the Java Developers Journal and the .NET Developers Journal.. If you'd like to read the original, please check these links:

http://devnulled.com/content/2004/12/an-evaluation-of-the-current-us-tec...
http://devnulled.com/content/2005/01/an-evaluation-of-the-current-techno...

Thanks,

- Brandon
Michael Hodgins 03/08/05 04:31:46 AM EST

It occurs to me that the search pattern for .NET doesn't disregard the ASP.NET results, so the ASP.NET jobs may already included under .NET
dotNEEET 03/07/05 12:21:12 PM EST

||| anon commented on 7 March 2005:
If I include ASP.NET with the .NET numbers, it would seem to push .NET over the top. Creative categorization of the information anyone? |||

Hear, hear! These figures need rearranging.
jc42 03/07/05 11:24:50 AM EST

It's amusing that Fortran, Cobol and RPG still make a top-20 list.

Who was it that said "We don't know what programming language we'll be using 50 years from now, but we know it'll be called Fortran"?
anon 03/07/05 11:23:04 AM EST

If I include ASP.NET with the .NET numbers, it would seem to push .NET over the top. Creative categorization of the information anyone? :)
markmcb 03/07/05 11:10:12 AM EST

I'm curious if anyone knows of any sort of reverse analysis. What I mean is that it seems easy to figure out what sort of jobs are available based on demand, but is there any analysis that shows what sort of IT-skill-sets are available from people in the job market? This sort of info would be nice to have if you were trying to avoid being one of the thousands of lemmings all focusing on the same job market.
dappleyard 03/07/05 11:08:57 AM EST

Does anyone know of any statistics for UK jobs?