by Angela Guess
Bob Tekiela recently shared his insights regarding what tech skills are currently in high demand, and NoSQL experience is high on the list. Tekiela writes, “One way to find out what skills will be in highest demand this year is to look at job posts. I decided to analyze recent Craigslist San Francisco Bay Area job ads. It’s a good proxy for the local demand. The Bay Area is often a trend setter, and technologies that become popular here frequently gain broader adoption. So the findings can also be viewed as a leading indicator for other geographies.”
Tekiela lists his key insights: “‘Mobile’ appears in 30% of all ads, winning the popularity (or hype?) contest. Java continues to lead the pack among the development languages, followed by Ruby, Python, and PHP. MySQL is by far the most commonly mentioned relational database. NoSQL is featured prominently. Hadoop is first on the list of NoSQL databases, followed by Cassandra, Redis, and MongoDB. Linux has little contest among the operating systems. Ubuntu is mentioned more frequently than CentOS. Android is mentioned slightly more often than iOS/iPhone. jQuery is the most commonly mentioned JavaScript framework. Spring continues to be the most commonly mentioned Java framework. Git outranks subversion among the source code management systems. Selenium is the most frequently mentioned testing tool. Drupal is the most frequently mentioned CMS tool.”
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