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Today’s Top Tech Skills

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Re: Today’s Top Tech Skills

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Post by ravenstine »

I don't really understand the desire for skills to be in high demand.

Obviously, you want your skills to be in demand in some capacity.

But putting so much emphasis on whether some tech skill is a winner on a scoreboard can give people the wrong impression about other languages and technologies that appear to either be unpopular or dying. It's reassuring that Java and SQL are still in high demand after all these years, but newbies looking at these charts might make the assumption that they might as well not bother learning other things like Elixir, PHP, Rust, Ruby, etc., because they're not that popular, even though those jobs exist, will continue to exist, and pay well.

Also, it's disturbing that Scum is the 13th most demanded "skill".

Re: Today’s Top Tech Skills

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Post by Felk »

ravenstine wrote: post #3

I don't really understand the desire for skills to be in high demand. Obviously, you want your skills to be in demand in some capacity . But putting so much emphasis on whether some tech skill is a winner on a scoreboard can give people the wrong impression about other languages and technologies that appear to either be unpopular or dying. It's reassuring that Java and SQL are still in high demand after all these yea…

Is that a freudian typo?

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Post by deepaksurti »

ravenstine wrote: post #3

I don't really understand the desire for skills to be in high demand. Obviously, you want your skills to be in demand in some capacity . But putting so much emphasis on whether some tech skill is a winner on a scoreboard can give people the wrong impression about other languages and technologies that appear to either be unpopular or dying. It's reassuring that Java and SQL are still in high demand after all these yea…

>> Scum

I don't if it was an intentional typo, but the `pun` might actually apply in many projects, unfortunately I must say.

Re: Today’s Top Tech Skills

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Post by bradleyjg »

vbtemp wrote: post #5

What about most compensated tech skill. Highly doubt SQL and Java rank highly there.

I don’t think that’s well specified enough to measure. But assuming you mean something like median comp of a job that requires X, I’d imagine the top of the list would all be things that are pretty obscure.

Suppose there’s one hedge fund that wants an expert in k and is willing to pay whatever it takes. Does that mean people should go out and learn k?

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