>Here is an updated snapshot of the job market using the search results for ALL states from dice.com. The orignal Thread #467563
>was created about one year ago. Overall the demand for these skills are down over 85%. Here are the results:
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>     Skill        1/23/2001   1/3/2002	 Pct Chg
>---------------   ---------   --------   -------
>C++                  38,540      6,196    -83.9%
>Java                 29,545      3,041    -89.7%
>Visual Basic/VB	     13,321      2,176    -83.7%
>XML                  10,124      1,302    -87.1%
>Perl                 10,087      1,602    -84.1%
>ASP                   8,472        873    -89.7%
>JavaScript            7,980        665    -91.7%
>JSP                   4,408        528    -88.0%
>Lotus Notes           1,838        324    -82.4%
>Delphi                  456        106    -76.8%
>VBA                     327        135    -58.7%
>FoxPro/VFP              241         70    -71.0%
>Paradox                  46          8    -82.6%
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>Oracle               23,311      4,185    -82.0%
>SQL Server           13,933      1,997    -85.7%
>Sybase                5,106        749    -85.3%
>DB2                   3,481        996    -71.4%
>Informix              1,889        212    -88.8%
>			
>Totals              173,105     25,165    -85.5%
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Pffff. Is this something to really believe ? I mean, it looks like "they" (?) stopped updating it at march 2001.