With the need of desktop-like functionalities to support Web 2.0 applications, the web development job market is experiencing considerable changes. From increased salary incentives for emerging tech skills to the freelancing effect, we take a look at the market state.
Salary Trends -The 2008 IT Salary Guide published by Robert Half Technology lists a broad range of IT salaries based on U.S data. It reports an average of $76,250 to $108,250 for the ‘Senior Web Developer’ position, which is an increase of 6.6% over this job’s 2007 salary range. The report gets more remarkable as you drill down the different skills and their respective salary increase:
- Java development – 10%
- LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP/Perl) – 5%
- AJAX – 5%
- CFML development – 5%
- Visual Basic .NET – 10%
- C# development – 12%
Ranking the different programming languages by annual salaries based on Indeed Salary Search, C++ ranks first, followed by Python, C# and PHP and ASP.NET ranked last.
Programming Languages - Here is a breakdown on the current trends since November 2006:
- Perl jobs decreased 40% (hah!)
- Python jobs decreased 9%
- PHP jobs increased 35%
- Ruby jobs increased 23%
- ASP jobs decreased 48%
- ASP.NET jobs decreased 31% (hah, as well!)
- Java jobs decreased 39%
- AJAX jobs increased 77%
- Ruby On Rails jobs increased 238%
- Flash jobs increased 2%
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