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Poll Result: Java Technologies Employment Market

Posted by editor on July 3, 2009 at 10:40 AM EDT

This past week's java.net poll on the Java technologies job market implies that the global economic downturn is far from over, at least for Java developers. In total, 275 votes were cast. Here is the actual question and the results:

What's the current status of the Java technologies employment market?

  • 20.3% (56 votes) - Excellent, plenty of opportunities
  • 46.9% (129 votes) - Stable, I have enough work
  • 6.9% (19 votes) - Better than 6 months ago
  • 22.9% (63 votes) - Still not good
  • 2.9% (8 votes) - Other

So, about 1/3 of the responses were for options that state that imply that the Java employment market is in a recession. Only 2/3 of the votes state that the person has enough work.

Mu posted the comment:

This is an oddly constructed poll: The employment market has currently dried up. Ergo, none of the responses apply

Cajo replied that, in this case, the "Other" category applies. I think Mu would have prefered an option "There currently is no Java technologies employment market," or something like that. Globally, there surely is a Java technologies market, since 20% of respondants are seeing plenty of opportunities. But, in different localities, there may well be virtually no market at all for Java skills and experience.

In a healthy economy, I would expect the "Stable" and "Excellent" categories to garner a combined 95% of the vote. At the 67% level reflected by this poll (which, admittedly, is not scientific), there are a lot of people who are unemployed or under-employed.

In a java.net poll from exactly one year ago, 34% of respondants said that job prospects in their field had gotten better over the past year, and 20% said prospects had gotten worse. And in an August 2006 poll, 75% of respondants were working in a mode that included frequent "time crunches" (emergency situations requiring much more work than normal, to meet release deadlines, etc.).

These polls all asked different questions, but they all indicate the overall level of vibrancy in the Java technologies employment marketplace. In 2006, the experience of too much work to get done in the available time was common. That's certainly not the case today for many Java developers. Of course, again, these are not scientifically administered polls...

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