by Angela Guess
A recent article reveals seven trends that data industry jobseekers should know about. The article states, “IT salaries are up after a two year decline, according to CIO.com. That’s good news, considering the level of dissatisfaction IT professionals are experiencing. Meanwhile, hiring is up as well. Dennis B. Moore has analyzed listings from Dice.com and found an overall increase of 6.1% in the past three months, and a 46.2% increase over the past year. Moore looked at four areas: database, applications, languages and platforms. Moore found some surprising results.”
The seven trends are: “(1) Demand for Hadoop knowledge grew slower than other NoSQL related technologies. However, there were still more Hadoop jobs than there were jobs in every other NoSQL technology combined… (2) Demand for Oracle eBusiness Suite skills dipped. Skills on Oracle’s database, unsurprisingly, remained strong… (3) Silverlight overtook Flash. Silverlight jobs experienced 12.6% growth in the past three months, while Flash experienced just 2.2%… (4) Demand for iPad skills decreased by 3.5%. However, iOS demand increased by 24.9%… (5) Android had 1,019 jobs, which beat iOS’ 832 jobs. But iOS is growing faster, at a rate of 24.9% to Android’s 19.8%. (6) There was an increased demand for skills in Facebook and Twitter. (7) Azure was the fastest growing platform, with 80.7% growth. But it still trailed Amazon in total number of jobs 1,019 to 103.”
