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:
Java (-barista -coffee) 53,618
.NET 47,651
C++ 35,322
Perl 19,432
Visual Basic (or vb -visual basic and -visualbasic) 18,508
C# 14,319
ASP (asp -asp.net -.net) 12,100
C programmer (and c developer -programmer) 11,711
Cobol 6,713
Flash 6,353
ASP.NET (-asp) 5,644
PHP 4,194
ColdFusion (and cold fusion -coldfusion) 3,360
Delphi 1,122
Here too is a set of results arranged by OS:
Windows (-glass -frame -sunroom -sunroof -tint -replacement -retrofit) 87,790
Unix 63,524
Linux 24,193
Solaris 19,263
AIX 9,291
Hpux (and hp-ux -hpux) 5,134
Irix 540
FreeBSD 433
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.
About Brandon Harper 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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