Skip to main content

Home/ Linux/ Group items tagged jobmarket

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Marc Lijour

Linux Skills Are Hot on Improving IT Hiring Front - PCWorld Business Center - 2 views

www.pcworld.com/...improving_it_hiring_front.html

linux IT ICT jobmarket business management 2010

shared by Marc Lijour on 26 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • the fewest job cuts in a year since 2000
  • according to global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, which on Monday reported that employers announced plans to cut only 46,825 IT jobs during 2010--a full 73 percent fewer than the 174,629 technology job cuts in 2009.
  • Forrester Research predicts that 2011 IT spending will increase 7.5 percent in the U.S. and 7.1 percent globally,
  • ...5 more annotations...
  • skills in the open source operating system are in particular demand, according to Dice.
  • postings seeking Linux knowledge have increased a full 47 percent over last year
  • Windows-related postings, by comparison, have increased by only 40 percent.
  • large enterprises are increasingly turning to Linux for mission-critical applications
  • Linux professionals also tend to get a significant salary premium of as much as 10 percent over other IT workers, Dice reported last year.
1 - 1 of 1
Showing 20▼ items per page