Mobile Developer Skills Wanted in 2012, Dice says

By on January 6, 2012 in Ask the Service Assurance Expert

Designers, coders and engineers will be in demand in the coming year.

Mobility is top of mind for most these days, even hiring managers, who put mobile development skills in the top three most in demand skills wanted in 2012.

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Dice this week shared the results of a recent poll of some 1,200 tech-focused hiring managers, which revealed a need for developers in 2012. Java/J2EE developers landed in the top spot, followed by software developers/engineers in second, but the third most sought-after high-tech professional listed was mobile developer, followed by .NET developers in the fourth slot. (See graphic below.)

“Tech hiring managers are resolute in their staffing priorities for 2012 – they need innovative professionals who design, code, build and operate,” reads the January edition of The Dice Report. “Indeed, developers dominate the new year’s most pressing hiring needs for a second straight year, although ops professionals make their list debut.”

Mobile technologies in 2012 will not only require developers, but also IT operations professionals skilled in managing, securing and optimizing the performance of an environment agile enough to support various mobile technologies and devices. Recent CA Technologies survey data shows that IT professionals worry over bringing the technology into their environments and supporting myriad end-user devices.

How is your IT organization going to integrate mobile technologies into the existing environment? What has to change to secure and manage the technology? And how will IT deal with end-user devices in the work place? Please leave a comment here, let me know via Twitter @DDubie or e-mail me directly at Denise.Dubie@ca.com.

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About Denise Dubie

Denise Dubie is New Media Principal in CA Technologies Thought Leadership Group. Prior to joining CA in 2010, Dubie spent 12 years of her career at Network World, an IDG company, covering the IT management industry and all its players (including CA and competitors) as well as high-tech careers and vendors such as Cisco, HP, IBM and Microsoft. As Senior Editor at Network World, Dubie also authored the publication's twice-weekly Network and Systems Management Alert newsletter and contributed to the Web site's Microsoft Subnet blog. Before IDG, she served as Assistant Managing Editor at Application Development Trends, managing writers and the monthly publication's production process. Dubie started her professional journalism career as a Staff Writer/Reporter at The Transcript, a small daily paper in Western Massachusetts. Dubie holds a B.A. degree in English Literature, with minors in journalism and political science, from Boston University.
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One Response to Mobile Developer Skills Wanted in 2012, Dice says

  1. Mobile Application Development February 7, 2012 at 10:02 am #

    Gone are those days where mobile phones acted just as a communication device used to talk and write short messages. Mobile phones are more than complete communication and entertainment device. Therefore, mobile development has become one of the most competitive territories for the developers. Around the world, mobile developers use mobile platforms for the development of some amazing apps.

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