Software Development
November 2005
Holding Pattern
Little has changed in the last year, according to our eighth annual examination of compensation and satisfaction trends for software developers. Salaries have increased by a hair, and most other job measures are dormant or just budding.The one bright spot? The continued growth of head-hunting.
By Alexandra Weber Morales
LANGUAGE / TECHNOLOGIES USED BY IT TEAMS, 2003-2005 | |||
2003 | 2004 | 2005 | |
.NET | 40% | 51% | 57% |
Ada | 4% | 4% | 4% |
Biztalk/IBM Crossworlds/other business integration | 6% | 6% | 7% |
C | 49% | 48% | 47% |
C# | 26% | 34% | 42% |
C++ | 67% | 62% | 59% |
Cobol | 27% | 20% | 18% |
CORBA/COM/other middleware | 23% | 18% | 16% |
Delphi/Object Pascal | 9% | 8% | 8% |
Fortran | 9% | 7% | 7% |
J2EE | 38% | 40% | 40% |
J2ME | NA | 7% | 8% |
Java | 68% | 64% | 63% |
Java Messaging | NA | 17% | 18% |
Lotus Notes/other groupware | 20% | 18% | 15% |
Oracle/SQL Server/Sybase/FoxPro/other database | 70% | 67% | 64% |
Perl/JavaScript/PHP/other scripting | 54% | 52% | 53% |
Python | 9% | 11% | 13% |
SAP/PeopleSoft/Oracle/other ERP | 28% | 21% | 20% |
SOAP | NA | 30% | 31% |