[sapug] Plethora of jobs on SEEK for Python programmers in Adelaide.

[Kim Hawtin]

Chris wrote:
> Daryl wrote:
>> Well, by plethora I mean 5.  And 3 of them seem to be the same job.
> 
> Yep, that's a huge amount, not :-)

there are regularly python jobs advertised on a number of mail lists in on,
VMWare is particularly hungry at the moment. they've advertised six jobs in
the last 9 weeks.

> I thought it might be interesting to see the proportions for different
> languages in different cities for Seek IT Job listings:
> 
> |-------------+----------+-------+-----------+--------|
> | Search Term | Adelaide | Perth | Melbourne | Sydney |
> |-------------+----------+-------+-----------+--------|
> | Ruby        |        2 |     1 |        27 |     58 |
> | Perl        |        4 |    19 |       157 |    312 |
> | Python      |        5 |     5 |        50 |     86 |
> | COBOL       |        5 |     4 |        22 |     42 |
> | PHP         |        9 |    26 |       174 |    312 |
> | Javascript  |       18 |    46 |       287 |    734 |
> | ASP         |       20 |    30 |       172 |    336 |
> | VB          |       29 |    23 |       100 |    332 |
> | C           |       33 |   107 |       234 |    525 |
> | C++         |       39 |   122 |       228 |    596 |
> | C#          |       53 |   177 |       369 |   1189 |
> | .NET        |       54 |   220 |       609 |   1538 |
> | Java        |       62 |   125 |       631 |   1517 |
> |-------------+----------+-------+-----------+--------|
> 
> The dynamic languages don't fare well for job listings.
> 
> Here's a stack of guesses to explore as to why this might be the case:
> 
> - Existing programmers within organisations are so productive in moving
>    to dynamic languages that they haven't needed to employ extra
>    programmers even with growth.
> 
> - Job satisfaction for existing programmers using dynamic languages
>    is higher than when using traditional languages, so there's no need
>    for filling replacement positions.
> 
> - Dynamic languages aren't popular.
> 
> - The popular dynamic languages have an interpreter implementation that
>    doesn't lend itself to hiding proprietary code from prying eyes.
> 
> - It takes 10 to 20 times more people to produce software when
>    not using dynamic languages.

- the bottom six languages are taught in Universities.

- the bottom three languages are taught at TAFE

- go to borders and pretty much the only books you'll find are on the bottom
six languages

kim
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