Justin's Blog

Open Source Software Job Opportunities are heating up

I checked seek.com today for job vacancies specifying particular types of technologies and was delighted to see the relatively high number of job offers for IT professionals with Open Source qualifications, particularly compared to qualifications for other well known proprietry products.  It seems that the number of opportunities in the Open Source software space is rising. 

Number of Job opportunities that specify open source software in Australia:

• Solaris 516
• Linux 1603
• mySQL 527
  
• Java 2,685

This compares well and sometimes greater than the number of jobs that specify knowledge in proprietry software

• AIX 260
• HP-UX 119
• Windows 4,290
  
• MS SQL 650
• DB2 297
• Oracle 2,905
• DB2 297
  
• Websphere 537
  

Posted at 03:02PM Aug 05, 2008 by Justin Glen in Sun  |  Comments[1]