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.