Good Java developers deserve better salaries

My mailbox aggregates several Java User Groups and other specialized sources of information about the Java universe, with special guests like CEJUG and the Java EE community. Many of these Java sources are used by consultant companies to hire smart people, and since last year I am reading a desperate growing interest about skilled Java developers. More: few days ago I was having a coffee with some colleagues and a manager confessed he is worried where to hire all resources he needs to allocate in the signed contracts for 2010. Listening such conversation and watching the raising offerings in the mailing lists I have only one conclusion: Java market is dry, skilled Java developers are becoming scarce. Reasons for that? No idea, but there are some obvious observations about our times: Hype languages and technologies didn't conquered the market as we expected, languages like Scala, Ruby, Grails, etc. Android? You know, perhaps next year. These languages advertised revolutions during the last two or three year, sold out a lot of books and conference speeches but nowadays it is not easy to find good jobs (salaries) for such technologies. Certainly there are good jobs somewhere, but it is nothing compared to the Java is dead speech of three years ago. Simple fact is: Java is still ranking high in the IT market, while all that hype revolutions are still hype promises. And the young developers that followed...

Date: January, 05 2010
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/felipegaucho/archive/2010/01/05/good-java-developers-deserve-better-salaries

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