What languages should I learn…

Supply and demand drives earnings. In an email thread today, one person assumed a bunch of things about relative salary and availability of developers. I use InDeed.com as a quick and dirty statistical source. The number of jobs is a good proxy for the number for available resources and salary tend to reflect shortage or surplus of developers with those skills.

 

So here’s the table of the results: (Area was: Washington)

Search Term

Number

Salary
VB Developer

323

78K
VBA Developer

31

90K
C# Developer

4700

84K
PHP Developer

750

72K
JAVA Developer

5900

85K
JavaScript Developer

3500

77K
Oracle Developer

1500

87K
MySQL Developer

850

76K
SQL Server Developer

3000

81K
Ruby Developer

950

80K
Python Developer

650

81K
Perl Developer

2000

81K
COBOL Developer

14

80K
Fortran Developer

14

77K
Web Developer

8000

79K
FoxPro Developers

3

60K
DB2 Developer

135

85K
HTML5 Developer

250

77K
Silverlight Developer

850

84K
C++ Developer

5000

87K
PhD Degree Developer

500

97K
Bachelor Degree Developer

5300

80K
Master Degree Developer

1400

85K
Associate Degree Developer

440

73K

So what is the best? Likely a C# or JAVA developer with a Ph.D.

PhD Degree Developer C#

122

102K
Bachelor Degree Developer C#

1200

80K
Master Degree Developer C#

350

86K
PhD Degree Developer JAVA

260

97K
Bachelor Degree Developer JAVA

2500

83K
Master Degree Developer JAVA

650

85K

It’s interesting that JAVA require a degree much more often than C#.

 

Locally (Bellingham). some folks have been pushing the items below:

Drupal developer

70

66K
Joomla developer

20

62K
Wordpress developer

20

64K

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