Are There More Java Jobs Than .NET Jobs?

US Job Market for Developers (Informally) Examined

Jun. 19, 2004 02:15 PM

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.

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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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