Demand for information technology workers fell by 10 percent in July from June but demand for some skill sets is higher than a year ago, according to the new North Carolina IT Job Trends report.
Openings for C++, V++ and Perl programmers, mainframe, virtualization and web services workers are higher than July 2010.
Here’s the breakdown of the top 10 skill sets with 2010 figures in parenthesis:
• SQL: 680 (690)
• Oracle DBMS: 620 (900)
• Windows OS: 560 (770)
• Java: 550 (610)
• Unix: 480 (620)
• Large systems technologies: 420 (520)
• Business analysis: 410 (600)
• Linux: 410 (450)
• Microsoft SQL Server: 400 (450)
• C++/V++: 380 (350)
• XML: 250 (250)
• Perl: 240 (130)
• Mainframe: 220 (180)
• Virtualization technology: 220 (140)
• Web services: 200 (160)
Read here for the full jobs report.
Read here for demand by job category.
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