Tom,

From someone who was unemployeed this summer, Dice is the worse place to compile any stats. I didn't have any luck using them at all and neither did anyone else judging from what I read in newsgroups. A lot of what they post isn't even current, just repeats of prior postings.

PF

>David, I woke up early this morning and recalled the excercise I did about
>this time a year ago. The idea was to simply update what has changed in
>that timeframe. For that reason I did not do anything with the new, still
>unreleased, .NET categories.
>
>I'm sure there are many flaws with the results (is dice.com the best
>proxy, etc?). I have no idea how many jobs are contract vs perm vs
>heard of C++ vs C++ expert.
>
>There is little question the job market has declined - I was surprised
>the extent of the decline and thought I would share the results. All I
>can say is the same criteria was used now vs then.
>
>
>>Tom,
>>
>>A few questions, the answers to which might be interesting...
>>
>>1) Any statistics on current jobs for C#, VB .NET or ASP.NET, or are they included in the existing categories?
>>
>>2) Any idea what percentage of these "jobs" are contract vs. permanent hire? My guess is that contract positions fell at a greater percentage and that most of the ones left are permanent hire.
>>
>>>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:
>>>
>>>

>>>

>>>     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%
>>>			
>>>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%
>>>