Job opportunities for Web technology professionals continued to expand over the past 30 days. The pace has slowed somewhat from last month's report. So have the referral bonuses.
March Referral Rewards
~ Web Designer (and mobile too!)
~ Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer
~ Director of Software Development and Engineering
What do these three opportunities have in common?
- highly developed technical skills
- experience implementing these skills in a Web (and increasingly mobile Web) environment
Dharmesh Shah from HubSpot, who fired the first $10,000 shot in the Boston battle for technology talent, reports as follows:
"For us, it's less about specific skills and more about finding people that have a passion for programming and a background delivering applications over the web."
Technical skills high on his list include the following:
- Java
- Python
- PHP
Boston Market
It pays to develop your technical skills.
Java, Python and PHP are three skills in the Top 20 Web Technologies in Boston. This list is updated monthly and appears in the right-hand column.
- Java | 667 job opportunities
66% in two months
- Python | 167 job opportunities
- PHP | 152 job opportunities
The list of Average Salaries in Boston has also been updated for March. Data is supplied by CBSalary.com, a service of CareerBuilder.com. A sampling of jobs filled recently and the salaries offered to the selected candidates reveal the following:
- Graphic Artist | $49,700
- Graphic Designer | $66,600
- Web Developer | $96,300
- e-Commerce Programmer | $107,200
- Web Architect | $116,100
It pays to develop your technical skills.
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