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Software developers most in-demand

May 15, 2013

Applications software developers ranked as the most in-demand technology occupation in April based on online job ads, according to Wanted Analytics, a firm that tracks online job ads. There were 128,000 job ads for applications software developers in April, up 16 percent from April 2012 and up more than 190 percent from four years ago.

Seattle, San Francisco and San Jose, Calif., had the highest number of software developer job ads during April. Seattle had the most open positions with more than 13,000 ads, a 28 percent year-over-year increase.

The top 10 in-demand software developer job titles include:

  1. Software engineer
  2. Senior software engineer
  3. Software development engineer
  4. .NET developer
  5. Java software engineer
  6. Applications engineer
  7. Senior software developer
  8. Principal software engineer
  9. Senior software engineer Java
  10. Application developer