Tom;

From the data bellow I am convinced that VBA is the most stable programming area with only a 58.7% change. That is by far the smallest change of any of the areas defined. Perhaps we should be looking for VBA jobs?

In reality in economic times such as we are enjoying at the present it is better to be a politician. You can just vote to increase taxes and your salary while everyone else tries to exist. If that is distasteful then you can work for a marketing company and help create data such as that presented below. Whatever it takes to survive! :)

Tom

>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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