The 10 Most In-Demand Software Skills

CIO Insight ^ | 07/02/2014 | By Karen A. Frenkel

[SeekAndFind]

The current job market has been very good for software developers, especially those with experience in several programming languages. The unemployment rate for software developers was 2.8 percent in Q1 of 2014, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is a notable drop from the 5 percent unemployment rate in Q2 of 2009, the quarter when the economic recession ended, and 5.5 percent in Q1 2010. This quarter's report by Dice.com reveals the most-requested skills and platforms, and notes that those with expertise in clusters of language skills are in demand. Furthermore, the Dice report looks at what skills may be needed during the next decade as wearable technologies, the Internet of Things, and robotics and drones increasingly play a larger role. For a copy of the report, click here.

[JRandomFreeper]

How about documentation?

/johnny

[SeekAndFind]

Tech documentors are HUGELY in demand, yes.

And if you are bilingual, you’d get top pay.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

They shouldn’t promote this, now Obama is going to try to import foreign computer programmers.

[JRandomFreeper]

I was thinking more along the lines of getting programmers to actually document their code with decent comments....

/johnny

[kevkrom]

When I’m looking for new team members, I couldn’t give a flying fig for their “skill sets”. I want to know how they think and how they can learn. You can teach skills, you can’t teach talent (at least, not as much).

[Billthedrill]

...getting programmers to actually document their code with decent comments....

That's just wrong.

[Boogieman]

But if I did that, then they could hire someone else to fix my code later. Not in my best interest :)

[ShadowAce]

[mowowie]

I used to be pretty good at fixing VCR’s....
Any jobs available for that?

[Jeff Chandler]

How about documentation?

/* Wachu talkin bout, Willis? */

[JRandomFreeper]

I've seen the comment "You wouldn't understand this" next to a complex regex line. In production code.

/johnny

[dfwgator]

Or

/* Google It! */

[JRandomFreeper]

The story of Mel, the programmer, lives on....

/johnny

[McGruff]

I are a software enginner. Started off with FORTRAN-77 and assembler on a DEC PDP 11/24. Nowadays using DOTNet C# on PCs for testing hardware. Lives been good to me so-far.

[Jeff Chandler]

More like: Google it.

[Darteaus94025]

C’mon Johnny!

REAL programmers don’t test or document.

That’s for newbs.

[listenhillary]

Indecent comments make the job fun.

[RedMDer]

I worked with a guy that documented his code with a lot of verbiage. Even through in some obscenities to see if anyone even reads the comments. :)

[Henchster]

I've seen the comment "You wouldn't understand this" next to a complex regex line. In production code.

If you've seen the comment: "Explanation more complicated than the code itself" you've view sourced my code and realized the reason programmers make minimal notations.