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Scala programmers are in catbird seat, or are they?

Barb Darrow — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:18:38 +0000

The demand for Scala programmers continues to grow. Indeed.com’s job post charts show the number of Scala job openings posted growing faster even than Ruby job postings late last year.

Of course, as a commenter on a Hacker News item, pointed out, numbers can be sliced and diced many ways. If you look at Indeed.com’s chart showing “absolute” number of job postings, it’s clear that demand for Java skills reigns supreme still.

“The fastest growing languages also happen to be the languages with the least jobs,” wrote commenter Zandana. “I imagine Scala’s growth will tail off a long time before it can compete in [the] sheer number of jobs with JavaScript or Java.”

There’s little doubt that the use of Scala, the brainchild of Martin Odersky, is on the rise. Twitter and LinkedIn are big Scala users. One advantage is it enables Java programmers — and there are millions of them — to keep using familiar libraries and develop web-scale applications.

But then again, these charts only show what parameters are put in. If you add Objective-C to the mix, as another Hacker News commenter pointed out, you get still another view of what’s going on.

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Infrastructure Q1: Cloud and big data woo enterprises

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 06:55:04 +0000

With enterprises now open to hybrid clouds, Amazon Web Services finally relaxed its rigid public-cloud-only stance and launched services to support hybrid-cloud deployments in the first quarter of 2012. On the big data front, the Hadoop players realized very few companies have teams of systems engineers to learn MapReduce. This has meant adding support for SQL and integrating Hadoop with existing data-management tools and systems. In other words, Hadoop has grown up and is now being taken seriously by companies like Oracle and Microsoft. This quarterly report examines these trends as well the exciting M&A and IPO news in this arena. It also includes a near-term outlook for the next 12–18 months.

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Graphic proof of big demand for big data talent

Barb Darrow — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 02:17:02 +0000

More (graphic) evidence that “big data” skills are very much in demand. Job postings for big data jobs have skyrocketed since January 2010. Just take a look at this hockey stick of big data job listings, courtesy of Indeed.com.

And, here’s the hockey stick for the more specific “data scientist” job title.

Feature photo courtesy of Flickr user *n3wjack’s world in pixels

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Trend Following and Tech Opportunities

Samuel Dean — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:00:38 +0000

Thanks to this gloomy economy, many people are looking for work, and many people who already have some are looking for more. The job search sites are good places to start, but not everyone realizes that you can use some of the employment sites to track employment trends. Being aware of trends in the job market is useful, whether you are currently looking for work or wondering what kinds of skills you might add to your arsenal for the future. SimplyHired and Indeed.com are both sites that work well for this purpose.

At Indeed.com’s home page, you can search by job title, company name and location for employment opportunities, but if you go down to the bottom of the home page and click on “Job Trends,” you can get a lot of additional information. At the top of the site’s Job Trends page, seen here, you can enter in either single search terms, or multiple terms for comparison purposes. You can see an example of a comparison in the graph above. I entered “PHP” and “AJAX” as my search terms (separated by a comma), and then clicked “Find Trends.”

As you can see from the chart above, the percentage of PHP-related jobs in Indeed.com’s database has been falling slightly behind AJAX-related jobs since 2007. At the bottom of the chart, I can also jump straight to PHP- and AJAX-related jobs.

Likewise, at SimplyHired’s home page, you can click on “Trends” at the bottom of the page, and you’ll arrive at this Trends page. Here again, to compare trends, you separate your search terms with commas. Below, I entered “Omniture” and “Google Analytics” as my search terms, separated by a comma. As noted below the chart, Google Analytics-related jobs have risen 179 percent since December of 2007, while Omniture jobs have risen 92 percent. SimplyHired’s Trends page calculates these summaries automatically, in addition to the charts.

You can also compare job trends by location. For example, entering “San Francisco Omniture” and “Los Angeles Omniture” will show you percentages of Omniture-focused jobs for the two locations. If you’re looking for opportunities, keep your eyes on both the jobs and the trends.

Where do you look for information about trends in the job market?

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