Tuesday 9 October 2012

Top IT skills in demand


The online recruiting site, Dice.com, published the peak demand for leading tech skills on the day of October 1, 2012. 

The leading category, sought in more than 14,600 job listings -- is for "Software developer" which appears to be a catch-all term, but nonetheless implies that individuals with adaptable programming and integration skills within any language or platform have a range of job choices open to them.

Here are the number of job openings for each of the top 10 positions that were seen on October 1st. (By the way, Dice also mentions Windows 7 development skills as the 11th-most-sought-after skill):

Software developer          14,616
Quality assurance              9,355
Python                               3,775
SOAP                                 3,217
Virtualization                     2,691
Ruby on Rails                    2,404
Android                             2,204
JBoss                                1,976
Information security         1,916
MS Dynamics                    1,581

Please click here for full/detailed report published by Dice.