Where are the tech jobs?
- TAGS:careers, Jobs, Professional
- IT TOPICS:Careers, Operating Systems
Or more precisely, where are the most technology jobs? Silicon Valley, right? Wrong. Boston? nope. LA? Nope.
According to the March jobs report from Dice.com, the most technology jobs by far are in the Washington D.C. area. I'm wondering if that has something to do with government spending.
Anyways, here's the numbers as of March 2.
Total available tech jobs on Dice: 54,301
full time positions: 35,570
contract positions: 23,545
part-time positions: 1,211
Jobs by top five regions
Washington DC area: 7,904
New York: 5,527
Silicon Valley: 2,666
Los Angeles: 2,454
Chicago: 2,247
And the top tech skills?
Operating systems:
Windows: 9,365
Unix: 7,425
Databases
Oracle: 10,080
SQL: 7,891
Programming Languages
C, C++, C# 9,881
J2EE/Java 9,267
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