Job Postings on Dice.com Reach Highest Level Since 2001
Washington D.C. Sees 94% Increase in Job Postings
Denver Continues its Rapid Growth
NEW YORK, Nov. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Dice Inc., the leading online job board
for technology professionals, today revealed the top technology job trends to
be grateful for this holiday season. Dice's data reveals that the tech
employment market is improving with several metro areas experiencing rapid
growth in technology positions and many skills seeing increased demand.
"While it has been a difficult year for technology professionals, we are
finding more reasons to be thankful," said Scot Melland, president and CEO of
Dice Inc. "Technology job postings in Washington D.C. and Denver have grown
substantially as well as several other smaller markets. Overall, job postings
on dice.com are up over 50% this year. These signs are evidence of an
improving tech employment market as we enter the new year."
Technology professionals in the Washington D.C. area have much to be
thankful for, as the area has seen a 94% increase in jobs posted since this
time last year. Approximately 11% of all the positions require security
clearance -- a need that continues to grow. The most requested programming
languages in the area include Microsoft ASP (Active Server Pages), C, C++ and
Java.
Denver has also seen strong growth with job postings escalating 172% over
the past twelve months. Other medium-sized metro areas showing rapid advances
include Tampa/Orlando, Minneapolis, St. Louis, and Charlotte, which have all
experienced job posting gains over 45%. The fastest growing skills areas
include positions requiring ASP experience, up 237% over the past year and a
half, driven in part by the launch of ASP.net, and positions requiring
experience with Sun Solaris infrastructure, up 94% over the same period.
During October, 2003, the skills most frequently searched for by employers
on dice.com were: Java, Oracle, C, SAP and Unix, with Project Manager, Oracle
and J2EE experiencing the largest increases month-to-month, gaining 50%, 43%
and 38% respectively.
About Dice Inc.
Dice Inc. (http://about.dice.com) is the leading provider of online
recruiting services for technology professionals. Dice Inc. provides services
to hire, train and retain technology professionals through its two operating
companies, Dice.com, the leading online technology-focused job board as ranked
by Media Metrix, and MeasureUp, a leading provider of assessment and
preparation products for technology professional certifications.
Users can log on to http://marketing.dice.com/rateresults to search for
specific salary information based on location, job function, skills and
education. Dice.com currently lists approximately 32,000 permanent, contract
and consulting jobs nationwide for a wide variety of positions from
programmers, software engineers and system administrators to CIOs and other
technology professionals.
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CONTACT:
Susan Simcox, Public Relations Manager, Dice
Inc., pr@dice.com; or Media, Stephanie Sampiere of Financial
Dynamics, +1-212-850-5600, ssampiere@fd-us.com, for Dice Inc.
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