{"id":1633,"date":"2011-04-12T11:28:30","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T18:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/?p=1633"},"modified":"2011-09-04T12:34:36","modified_gmt":"2011-09-04T19:34:36","slug":"job-demand-java-c-c-and-windows-compared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/2011\/04\/job-demand-java-c-c-and-windows-compared\/","title":{"rendered":"Job Demand: Java, C#, C++, and Windows Compared"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a long-time Windows\/C++ developer, I’m curious to know what technologies are in demand. I’ve personally used Dice.com almost exclusively in the past, but they don’t provide a good interface for viewing job trends. Indeed.com<\/a> is an aggregating website which compiles results from multiple job-posting sites. It provides a very nice interface for graphing job trends<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Comparing Java, C++, and C#, it appears that there are a tremendous number of Java jobs, while C# and C++ are vying for around the same percentage of total job listings:<\/p>\n

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java, c#, c++ Job Trends<\/a><\/td>\nJava jobs<\/a> – C# jobs<\/a> – C++ jobs<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Of course, C++ development on *nix is often a very different beast from C++ on Microsoft Windows, and transition between the two can be problematic. If we ignore Java and add a trend line for Windows C++, it becomes clear that C++ on Windows is steadily declining, while by comparison C# is exploding:<\/p>\n

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C#, C++, Windows C++ Job Trends<\/a><\/td>\nC# jobs<\/a> – C++ jobs<\/a> – Windows C++ jobs<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I was curious how this compares to data sourced solely from Dice.com<\/a>. Since they don’t provide any sort of trend interface, I wrote a script which feeds Dice data into the Google Charts API each week:<\/p>\n

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