Of the more than 11,000 U.S. employers surveyed, 24 percent anticipate increasing staff levels in the third quarter of 2015, the highest percentage of employers adding staff since the third quarter of 2008! Beantown Web's Boston Web Tech Job Market analysis for the third quarter confirms the results of the Manpower Employment Outlook Survey.
Boston Web Tech Job Market
The list of Top 25 Web Technologies in Boston has
been updated for the third quarter. It appears in the right-hand
column and below. This list is based on keyword searches in job postings at Indeed.com. The most in-demand keywords are listed more frequently than less in-demand keywords.Indeed.com is a meta-search engine that offers a maximum number of search possibilities. All searches encompass a 25-mile radius of Boston. Search parameters can be adjusted to fit your personal needs.
Top 25 Web Technologies in Boston
Here is an abbreviated list of the 25 most in-demand web technologies in Boston. [
or 
from early April ] listed by number of job postings at Indeed.com:July, 2015
- SQL | 6,566
- Java | 4,080
- agile *** | 3,538
- Oracle | 2,967
- JavaScript | 2,944
- Python | 2,280
- social media | 2,086
- Web Services | 1,634
- SaaS | 1,560
- C# | 1,534
- SQL Server | 1,396
- HTML + CSS | 1,322
- UI | 1,314
- XML | 1,281
- scrum *** | 1,159
- iOS | 1,114
- jQuery | 1,079
- Ruby | 1,054
- Perl | 1,047
- MySQL | 1,039
- PHP | 923
- AWS | 882
- UX | 863
- SharePoint | 825
- Photoshop | 814
*** Note: While "agile" and "scrum" are not technologies, they
are methodologies used in technology development. These two keywords
appear in many web development job descriptions. Experience with "agile" and "scrum" is often preferred, if not required, in many web development jobs.
Select
five technical skills in the Top 25 and focus on becoming proficient --
if not expert -- in each technology. What are your top five technology
skills? What projects can you link to that demonstrate expertise in
these technologies? For example, you can view a Smarterer Scorecard of my top technical and business skills. You can also access information about the projects I am currently working on at Web Apprentices.
Guard against being distracted by "shiny new object" skills that are not listed in the Top 25. Without having solid core skills in high-demand technologies, you may not experience an optimum return-on-investment in terms of time and energy invested in becoming proficient at lower-demand technical skills.
An expanded version of this list -- Boston's Top 100 Web Technologies -- is being counted down for the next three months @webapprentices.
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Select
five technical skills in the Top 25 and focus on becoming proficient --
if not expert -- in each technology. What are your top five technology
skills? What projects can you link to that demonstrate expertise in
these technologies? For example, you can view a Smarterer Scorecard of my top technical and business skills. You can also access information about the projects I am currently working on at Web Apprentices.Guard against being distracted by "shiny new object" skills that are not listed in the Top 25. Without having solid core skills in high-demand technologies, you may not experience an optimum return-on-investment in terms of time and energy invested in becoming proficient at lower-demand technical skills.
Boston's Top 100 Web Technologies
An expanded version of this list -- Boston's Top 100 Web Technologies -- is being counted down for the next three months @webapprentices.
[ NOTE: Follow Beantown Web on Twitter @webapprentices and become a Fan of Beantown Web on Facebook today. ]
