The Most In-Demand Tech Skills of 2013

[Rakehellion]

http://readwrite.com/2014/01/08/in-demand-tech-skills-of-2013-java#awesm=~osyW4E7Z7dr8r0

Basically, if you want a job programming ATMs and fax machines for the next 10 years, learn Java. And lol@ PHP being in high demand. And this is from someone who likes PHP.

Basically the languages a 14-year-old kid can learn in an afternoon are in high demand. Color me shocked.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Both make sense to me. We use Java for our Amazon cloud application servers, and PHP for our VPS www site.

If you're good it doesn't really matter what you specialize in though. There's work for all of us.

 

[Markbnj]

Yeah I'm also not surprised by that list.

 

[Cogman]

Yeah I'm also not surprised by that list.

I'm slightly surprised at how high the demand is for java. I knew it was high, I didn't expect it to be double the demand of the second place contender. (and even higher if you consider "android" to be a subset of java.)

 

[t-ray]

In terms of numbers of projects, most projects are internal/corporate vs customer/public. The majority of corporate and enterprise development is still java.

 

[Cogman]

In terms of numbers of projects, most projects are internal/corporate vs customer/public. The majority of corporate and enterprise development is still java.

Again, not surprised that it is near the top. I am surprised at the degree it dwarfs the other skills (double #2 and even higher if you consider the fact that android development is a subset of the java skillset).

 

[Markbnj]

I'm slightly surprised at how high the demand is for java. I knew it was high, I didn't expect it to be double the demand of the second place contender. (and even higher if you consider "android" to be a subset of java.)

Ok, yeah, that's a little surprising. I actually didn't notice that Android wasn't part of that number. Still, java covers a lot of ground on the server side and client side (thick clients and plugins).

 

[DaveSimmons]

Since this table only shows searches for new hires (not existing staff), maybe there are just a lot more companies looking to hire Java developers for new cloud development projects than there are people needing extra .Net developers.

At work if we were hiring it would probably be for another Java developer since our current staff is enough for our desktop apps.

 

[exdeath]

In other words garbage like Lotus Notes is going to be the norm.

 

[KentState]

Lot of Map Reduce Java development going on also. I now we are doing more with that than traditional development.

 

[Aldon]

I'm surprised .NET is almost at the very bottom. PHP ftw, nothing more to say.

 

[JumBie]

Wow....C++ all the way at the bottom...Jesus Christ, better get started on learning Java now.

 

[Fox5]

Considering Android is also Java, that makes Java's lead even higher.

Shouldn't .net be combined with C# though?

BTW, I'd like to see average salaries. I bet the average salary for a Java developer is much lower than a C or C++ developer, even if there are more jobs.

 

[JumBie]

Considering Android is also Java, that makes Java's lead even higher.

Shouldn't .net be combined with C# though?

BTW, I'd like to see average salaries. I bet the average salary for a Java developer is much lower than a C or C++ developer, even if there are more jobs.

Well I got friends in Java fields making sub 75k here in Toronto. I also know C++ developers making 100k+, even some working at banks making 150+. But shit, those are competitive jobs.

 

[Jaydip]

If a professional C/C++ programmer is getting less than an equally compent java programmer something is very wrong there.There is a reason we have so many books documenting traps and pitfalls

 

[ejjpi]

I'm not sure what people find surprising about that list.
Java and .NET are the most widespread technologies and if you sum c# and .NET percentages (which belong to the same framework) you have a pretty realistic overview of the current development situation, either you like it or not.

 

[KB]

I'm surprised .NET is almost at the very bottom. PHP ftw, nothing more to say.

http://webonastick.com/php.html
Although I like php's ease of editing because it reminds me of ASP, one of the first languages I learned, PHP really is difficult to work with and I am surprised by its success.




Is .net, vb.net? Or does it mean any .Net language. l agree with others that .net and C# likely be combined. In addition JS is used almost everywhere nowadays from node.js to json. You can't do too many large .net, Java or php projects without some JS in there.

 

[Markbnj]

http://webonastick.com/php.html
Although I like php's ease of editing because it reminds me of ASP, one of the first languages I learned, PHP really is difficult to work with and I am surprised by its success.




Is .net, vb.net? Or does it mean any .Net language. l agree with others that .net and C# likely be combined. In addition JS is used almost everywhere nowadays from node.js to json. You can't do too many large .net, Java or php projects without some JS in there.

I think a statistical defense of this graphic would probably get murky pretty fast . The categories seem very arbitrary to me.

 

[ejjpi]

Is .net, vb.net? Or does it mean any .Net language.

.NET is a software framework, C# and VB.NET are programming languages, both compiles to the same intermediate language which runs against the same .NET Framework runtime libraries.

 

[Graze]

In other words garbage like Lotus Notes is going to be the norm.

Dont me a programming language elitist now. I don't think the python community deserves such harsh criticism

 

[brianmanahan]

Lot of Map Reduce Java development going on also. I now we are doing more with that than traditional development.

hadooooop!

 

[brianmanahan]

Well I got friends in Java fields making sub 75k here in Toronto. I also know C++ developers making 100k+, even some working at banks making 150+. But s**t, those are competitive jobs.

i know a java contractor from toronto who was making about 130k-140k a few years ago (we were paying about double that for him)

 

[brianmanahan]

Basically the languages a 14-year-old kid can learn in an afternoon are in high demand. Color me shocked.

basically if you think that anyone can learn a language in an afternoon, color you dumb

 

[postmortemIA]

I couldn't care less what web language is "in' today, as long as there are C/C++ jobs out there ... and there are plenty

 

[smackababy]

In other words garbage like Lotus Notes is going to be the norm.

There is a special kind of hell the developers of the entire Lotus suite are going. And they've earned their spots.


I am not surprised Java is so in demand. it seems like every school is pumping out Java developers left and right, most of which can't tell you the difference between an interface and an abstract class (seriously, I would have conversations with technical interviewers about how incredibly easy the questions were and they'd say things like this).