Posted on 03/27/2013 10:25:33 AM PDT by ShadowAce
Have you been looking for a job, or extra work on the side, and getting ever more frustrated even though the job market is turning up? While the market is improving, it's still a tough environment out there, especially for college graduates who have little experience on their resumes. The good news is that a number of recent surveys and studies show that open source skills are in increasing demand at many organizations.
In the latest example of these reports, Dice.com and The Linux Foundation surveyed more than 850 global hiring managers and 2,600 Linux professionals, finding that Linux skills, in particular, are very much in demand.
"[Linux] is considered the most ubiquitous and popular free open-source operating system," The Linux Foundation reports. "And if you demonstrate IT skills in this field, you're setting yourself up for a lucrative in-demand career."
At Baselinemag.com, you can look at a nice slideshow featuring results from the Dice/Linux Foundation survey. These were some of the findings:
- 93% of respondent employers plan to hire at least one Linux professional within the next six months.
- 90% of employers say it's difficult to find professionals with Linux skills.
- The average increase in pay for staffers with Linux experience from January 2012 to January 2013 was a healthy 9%.
A few months back, The Linux Foundation ran a complete interview with Dice.com's Alice Hill, where she noted:
"Linux is firmly at the core of software development and system administration and still growing. What the survey respondents tell us about Linux as a priority for 2012 echoes recruitment posting activity on Dice. We have seen demand in areas like mobile and cloud take off, but Linux-related jobs are a consistent leader. In fact, Linux job postings on Dice.com are up 17 percent year/year and is one of the top 10 most requested skills...It’s not a surprise to us that Linux talent is in demand, but what is surprising is the fact that 85 percent of companies report having difficulty finding qualified Linux professionals. That’s substantial. Linux is a core skill and employers understand this. Now tech professionals need to recognize the opportunity and join this community."
Increasingly, there are certification programs available for job seekers who want to pick up open source skills, and some of them are very affordable. You can get certified for popular open platforms ranging from Hadoop to OpenStack. But, even straight Linux skills are becoming increasingly valuable to employers.
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Got my RHEL6 RHCE a little over a year ago. What I’ve learned from being on both sides of the fence, given I started as a developer, and am now back in that role is that for the most part, neither side understands each other. Admins think developers are prima donnas and developers think Admins constantly break things and don’t communicate well.
They’re typically both right.
Allow me to start this off right.... ahem...
The other side sux!
I guess there is some truth to this but I happen to think that on the whole there are less employers looking for “linux skills” then there are looking for “industry experienced (5 years or more) working in such and such industry on such and such projects with a proven track record - linux skills a plus”.
Meaning that employers don’t hire a “linux person” like the old economy hired a “welder” or an “electrician”. The new economy’s job market is way, way more specialized than that. Again, in my opinion.
If you’re in the business of, let’s say, providing cloud services a la Amazon, not only do you want linux experience but you want someone who has worked in hosted virtual environments or someone who was rolled out applications for same.
So I tend to take these articles with at least a grain of salt.
Why not?
Linux is “stable”, “secure”, “efficient”, “fast” and almost never requires a reboot. hee hee hee
LOL! You’re right!
They’re typically both right.
Yeah. These systems would run just fine if not for all those pesky users!
Personally, I'd like to get more into the admin thing myself, as I've been working the middleware (weblogic/websphere/apache/tomcat/etc) stuff for too long.
bookmark.
Weird, I think of apache and tomcat as admin jobs. And I mean that with respect, because good Admins can do more tricks with apache and tomcat than a monkey with 20 feet of twine.
NO I’M NOT!!!
You don't say...
They are indeed both right!
Yes and no. In small shops you normally have admins running apache and other similar technology. In my experience, with larger shops, you'd have things more organized by technology, especially in more mature organizations. In some, the apache side wouldn't be considered "middleware" but I think it fits better there, because of the tight integration between the webserver and the backend servers that handle business logic and other functionality, where you want it to all work together seamlessly, and make sure that the security considerations of different configurations aren't overlooked because you have separate groups on the different sides.
You're absolutely right about some of the really amazing things you can do with Apache, especially via the magic of rewrite rules and some of the other built-ins.
Allow me to start this off right.... ahem...
The other side sux!
There is but ONE TRUE CODE and its name is BSD!
(Crazy enough?)
oh yeah well your nothing if you don’t use the Bourne shell
oh yeah well your nothing if you don’t use the Bourne shell
EMACS is a bloated operating system! Admins use vi!
(Editor wars are as useless and Ford v.s. Chevy, Windoze v.s. Linux (back on topic?) Glock v.s. Sig, and on and on...)
Apache is stinkola! IIS for Forever~!
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