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More thanever,

companies

need

coders . And

while tech

firms do the

bulk of the

hiring, the

demand for

programmers

spans

industries

and only

seems to

be

growing.

From

writing

bas ic HTML

to building

complex

logic into

mobile

applications,

the ability tosmartly craft

lines of

code

continues to

be one of

the most

in-demand

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and

often,

well-paying

skill sets

one can

have.

(See also:

Why This

Guy Quit

His

Sports-Radio

Dream

Job... To

Write

Software


/2013/04

/11/man-

leaves-

life-as-

sports-

broadcaster-

to-become-software-

developer))

So what

skills are

the most

sought

after? That's

anever-fluctuating,

somewhat

difficult

thing to

track.

Normally,

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turning to a

single

source for

such data,

but its very

nature

makesIndeed.com

(http://indeed.com)

an ideal

place to

look. The

job search

site

aggregates

more than

16 million

listings

from a wide

range of

sources, so

it's fairly

comprehensive.

15.Ruby

It may be

almost 20

years old,

but the

object-

oriented

scripting

language is

still going

strong. After

existing for

years as a

general

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purpose

programming

language,

Ruby got a

huge bump

from the

advent ofRuby on

Rails , the

hyper-

popular

Web

development

framework.

Since the

rise of

Rails , the

two have

practically

become

synonymous,

but Ruby

has plenty

of

applications

(http://stackoverflow.com

/questions

/1376592

/what-

is-ruby-

used-for-

besides-

rails) as a

general

scripting

language.

14.ASP.NET

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Microsoft's

server-side

Web

development

framework

is more

controversial(http://net.tutsplus.com

/articles

/editorials

/why-many-

developers-

hate-asp-

net-and-

why-they-

are-wrong/)

than many

of its peers,

in part

because it's

a Microsoft

product.

Still, its

abil ity to

build

dynamic

sites and

Web

applications

is favored

by many

programmers

and, more

importantly,

the

organizations

who hire

them.

13.

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AJAX

AJAX is

actually

multiple

technologies

bundledinto one.

Asyncronous

JavaScript

and XML

was first

popularized

by Web

applications

like Google

Maps and

Gmail. The

abil ity of

websites to

retrieve data

in the

background

withoutreloading

the page is

something

we now

take for

granted, but

it was

groundbreaking

stuff a

decade

ago. Today,

using a

conglomeration

of HTML,

CSS,

JavaScript

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(or JSON)

and XML to

build

asynchronous

Web apps

is s till

popular,and the job

listings

prove it.

12.Objective-C

For a

30-year-old

programming

language,

Objective C

is looking

pretty good.

It's the core

of

developmentfor both of

Apple's

operating

systems. Its

roots in Mac

OS X go

back to

Steve Jobs '

days at

NeXT and

it's at the

heart of iOS.

Considering

the the

platform's

enormous

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popularity,

it's no

wonder that

Objective-C

is coveted

by

employersacross

industries.

11. PHP

PHP is

huge. The

open

source,

server-side

scripting

language

runs on

more than20 million

websites

and powers

high-profile

sites we

deal with

every day,

including

Facebook

and

Wikipedia.

Any blog,

news s ite or

other

website

built using

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Wordpress

or Drupal is

making use

of PHP as

well. It's all

over the

Web, even ifyou can't

see it by

clicking

"view

source."

10.

PythonPython is a

general

purpose

programming

language

that can be

used in a

variety ofways.

Known for

its clean

and efficient

code,

Python is

used by

players as

notable as

Google and

NASA. It's

also what

Dropbox is

written in. In

fact, the

technology

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is so

important to

Dropbox

that the

company

hired

Pythonauthor

Guido van

Rossum

away from

Google late

las t year.

Dropbox

isn't the only

one hiring

Python

talent.

There are

currently

19,455

Python job

listings onIndeed.com.

9. Perl

Perl was

very popular

in the 90s

for its ability

to createCGI scripts

that beefed

up the

functionality

of early Web

pages. But

the dynamic

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programming

language

sometimes

called the

"Swiss

Army

chainsaw"of

languages

is

capable of a

wide range

of feats. In

addition to

Web

development,

it's used for

things like

system

administration,

building

desktop

apps, game

development

and even

bioinformatics

(http://en.wikipedia.org

/wiki/Bioinformatics).

8. C

C has been

around

since the

early 1970s

and

remains

one of the

most

widely-used

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programming

languages.

It may lack

the

sexiness of

the latest

Webdevelopment

frameworks,

but C is

what lots of

operating

systems,

kernel level

software

and

hardware

drivers are

made of.

7. C#

Not to be

confusedwith C or

C++, C# is

an object-

oriented

programming

language

developed

by Microsoft

in 2000 to

compete

with Java.

Programmers

will debate

the merits

of one

language

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versus the

other until

the end of

time, but

tyhe fact

remains

thatemployers

are hiring

C#

programmers

like crazy.

6. XML

XML is

everywhere.

The markup

language is

used to

define

structured

information

in a widevariety of

contexts. On

the Web, it

forms the

basis of

RSS and

XHTML, it

talks to

databases

and is

paired with

JavaScript

for AJAX

interactivity,

among

much else.

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It's even

extended

beyond the

Web and

has found

its way into

the heart ofdesktop

applications

like

Microsoft

Word and

Adobe

InDesign.

The list

goes on

and on. And

so do the

job listings.

5. C++

Like its

predecessorC, C++ is

used widely

in operating

systems,

desktop

apps,

developing

games,

hardware

drivers and

much else.

C++ has a

reputation

for being

more

complex

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and

inefficient

(http://stackoverflow.com

/questions

/318398

/why-does-

c-compilation-take-so-

long/318440#318440)

than some

of the

alternatives

, but it is

nonetheless

an

incredibly

widely used

and

important

programming

language.

4.

JavaScript

On the

Web,

JavaScript

is what

makes

things

interactive.

This is

especially

true now

that the rise

of tablets

and

smartphones

has

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bumped

Flash from

its

once-prominent

perch.

Whether it's

trendyframeworks

like jQuery

or the JSON

data

interchange

standard,

companies

need

JavaScript-

focused

talent like

never

before.

3.HTML

It's only

natural that

the

language at

the heart

every Web

page would

be in high

demand,

even as

native

mobile app

development

and

back-end

cloud

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technologies

command

bigger ad

bigger

chunks of IT

budgets. In

fact, astablets,

smartphones

and cloud-

hosted

services

proliferate,

the

importance

of the Web

grows

along with

it. The

conglomeration

of Web

technologies

known as

HTML5 is

all the rage

at the

moment,

but

hypertext

markup is

more than a

fad. It is,

and will

remain, the

skeleton of

the Web for

the

foreseeable

future.

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2. Java

Java

certainly

has its

critics


/05/java-

is-no-

longer-

needed-

pull-the-

plug-in), not

to mention

some

well-publicized

security

issues


/2013/02

/05/users-

fiddle-while-

java-burns%20).But the

object-

oriented

language

remains in

heavy

demand

and used

for a wide

range of

purposes. It

can't

possibly

hurt that

Google

uses Java

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as the

basis for

Android

application

development,

a sector that

isn't likely toslowdown

anytime

soon.

1. SQL

NoSQL

databases

might be

getting all

the attention

as of lately,

but moretraditional,

structured

databases

are still

going

strong.

Thus, SQL,

the

programming

language

for querying,

manipulating

and

managing

relational

databases

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is in high

demand.

Considering

the sheer

volume of

data being

generatedeveryday, it's

no shock

that having

the ability to

help

manage it

is such a

marketable

skill. There

are currently

more than

98,000 SQL

jobs

indexed by

Indeed.com.

Tags: techskills

(/tag/tech+skills/),

jobs

(/tag/jobs/),

programming

language

(/tag/programming+language/),

javascript(/tag/javascript/),

html

(/tag/html/),

xml

(/tag/xml/),

Java

(/tag/Java/),

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I

think these

rankings are

not entirely

indicative.

For example

skills like

SQL, HTML,

Ajax &

Javascript

are common

but they are

mostly

secondary

skills behind

another skilllike C# or

PHP and are

not the

employers

highest

priority.

While

sometimes

they are theprimary skill,

if you are

explicitly

hiring a SQL

DBA for

example,

that is a

rarer case.

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