On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 11:41:06AM -0700, Madeline Schnapp wrote:
> Someone in this group posts some interesting job announcement stats from
> time to time. Is that information available anymore? We need some
> historical information for some research we are doing.
Your best results would be tracking down the speaker at TPC3 who did
the full statistical analysis on the increasing rate of demand for
Perl vs. COBOL vs. Java programmers.
A reasonable back-of-the-envelope guesstimate would be to search on
"Perl" on dice.com or some other such job board. Today's stats:
Java: 43217 / 173199 [25%]
VB: 18320 / 173199 [11%] (incl. "Visual Basic", VBScript, etc.)
Perl: 15608 / 173199 [ 9%]
COBOL: 2913 / 173199 [ 1.6%]
PHP: 613 / 173199 [ 0.3%]
Python: 432 / 173199 [ 0.2%]
Of course, these aren't even damn lies, they're just statistics. :-)
HTH,
Z.
