At least in terms of languages, this survey is pretty consistent with all the other analyses I have read on the subject (TIOBE, dice/monster, etc...): C, Java, C++ and C# have a solid top spot and all the other languages barely register on the radar.
-- Cédric On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Nick Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- Cédric -- 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.
