I'm a little skeptical about their methodology. With big-name employers like IBM, SAS, and Red Hat in the area, the Raleigh Durham area has been one of the top metropolitan areas for IT for years now (I think by some statistic, percentage of jobs that were IT related or something, we were recently ranked 3rd behind Silicon Valley and the DC metro), yet they have only been keeping track of us since 2007-2008? And they needed that extra space to keep track of all the IT jobs in Detroit (no offense those of you who live there, just your city is kinda, well, Detroit)? And "SOA" as a skill keyword has been only tracked from 2009-2010 and Google Trends (http://www.google.com/ trends?q=SOA) confirms that peaked in 2007 and has been downhill since. ColdFusion is an even bigger puzzle. Was 2009 really a breakout year for ColdFusion jobs that all of a sudden it deserves to be tracked? And then there is this: "A cookie methodology was used to ensure that there was no duplication of responses between or within the various sample groups, and duplicate responses from a single email address were removed." Yeah, that will root out fraud. No one would ever think to delete a cookie...
I'm not saying Scala would deserve to be tracked (it is not widely used so it would be hard to get good salary statistics), only that this survey smells like crap. On Feb 14, 5:30 pm, Chess <[email protected]> wrote: > Make your own judgement call: > > http://marketing.dice.com/pdf/Dice_2010-11_TechSalarySurvey.pdf -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
