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I dunno. This study was largely derived from surveys with businesses. Needs change over time, and it's certainly possible that the differences in technology deployment could be regional.

Possibly, but I only live 90 minutes from the Silicon Valley and that's where most of these job offers have originated (I used to commute there regularly, but gave it up for a local job 10 minutes from my house). While the Valley is definitely suffering a major downturn right now, a HUGE percentage of new software still originates from the area, and it's usually on the leading edge of new software trends. It's also worth mentioning that I also recently saw a survey done of the major job boards evaluating the "in demand" skills among actual positions open today. IIRC, C# was 9th or 10th on the list...behind even JavaScript and Cobol. I think this will change over the next few years because it's such a good language, but there isn't a whole lot of activity with it today.