Which programming language will get you a job?
Posted on Sunday, January 15, 2006
at 9:57 PM (permalink)
The Indeed.com job site now allows you to graph the percentage of online want ads that contain specific key words. There are many uses for this, but I thought it would be interesting to compare the relative demand for specific programming skills. It looks like they rank as follows: .Net, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ajax, and Ruby. Despite the recent hype, Ajax and Ruby are barely visible compared to the better known languages.
But that isn't the whole story. All of the leading languages show fairly steady levels of demand. Ajax and Ruby, on the other hand, show strong growth over the last year. Want ads for Ruby doubled, and Ajax increased six-fold.
These last two graphs also suggest a potential growth market in Ruby and Ajax training. (Via Steve Rubel)
