Perry,

You maybe true to some extent as with regards to stats basis, but their is an undeniable truth that IT Job Market has significantly downed. For example, in our country alone there is no more ads for IT Jobs for US todate as compare to year 1998, 1999, 2000 until first half of 2001.

>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%
>>>>