2012 jobs in Computers

JSP

What will be the trends in the Irish IT/Computer job market next year?

Eg. will "cloud computing" related skills be in demand?
Will Programming skills such as C Sharp and Java increase or decrease in demand?

mickman

JSP wrote: »

What will be the trends in the Irish IT/Computer job market next year?

Eg. will "cloud computing" related skills be in demand?
Will Programming skills such as C Sharp and Java increase or decrease in demand?

i dont have a crystal ball but my opinion is that cloud computing will be stronger than ever next year , companies are still looking to cut costs and consolidation / cloud is the way they do that .

not sure about programming but i would imagine that java will be quite strong again

starlit

Cloud computing seems to be taking the world by storm at the moment but its a bit over-rated and over hyped to be honest. Pure economics really.

Programming will never date so you be ok with that. Java will upgrade editions every so often so Java be around for a long time yet so Java will still be the most popular programming language I'd say in the coming year at least.

Perl and Python seem to be becoming popular programming languages at the moment if its the case in 2012 it remains to be seen.

PHP, HTML, CSS and Javascript, Visual basics and unix scripting you couldn't go too wrong with them though. C sharp be still in demand though.

IT Security and Networking seem to be big areas at the moment so is application support, SOAP and .net and IT Auditing seem to be appearing on the horizon too.

Good luck op

fret_wimp2

Check out irish jobs. see what positions are open, what fields are hiring. Pattern will be pretty similar for next year im guessing.

JSP

An economics article suggested that Ireland may become a large data centre for cloud computing.

Which Cloud Computing software is increasingly popular in the Irish market among Citrix Xen, IBM, VMWare and Microsoft?

mickman

JSP wrote: »

An economics article suggested that Ireland may become a large data centre for cloud computing.

Which Cloud Computing software is increasingly popular in the Irish market among Citrix Xen, IBM, VMWare and Microsoft?

citrix for desktops
vmware for servers

fret_wimp2

JSP wrote: »

An economics article suggested that Ireland may become a large data centre for cloud computing.

Which Cloud Computing software is increasingly popular in the Irish market among Citrix Xen, IBM, VMWare and Microsoft?

Dont get tied down by "which software/which tool should i use".
The basics behind them all are similar. Ive been in many envrionments where multiple software solutions are used ( although im partial to MS and Hyper V myself).

Get your hands on one of the solutions ( i know MS give Windows HyperV Server 2008 away for free. its basically a cut down version of windows server core), and practice. create some VM's, do whatever you need to with them.

you will find that interfaces differ but the ideas are the same between them all.

That said, i find that cloud is only a small part of an IT Professionals realm of expertise, unless you are to become a very specialized cloud consultant.

You will find yourself much more valuable if you are more rounded. e.g. Have some knowledge on disk subsystems ( helps predict performance) and servers available, inifo on how applications and databases behave on different configurations, info on virtualization, knowledge of how other apps behave such as exchange server, sharepoint etc, some dev knowledge is always good, some scripting knowledge is always usefull also.

You will end up being a specialist in one area but your always better to be rounded and know how your area fits in with the infastructure.

Again, irishjobs is your friend. its a clear indicator of whats hot and a good way of getting a broad view of skills required.

End of the day though chose an area you like. nothing worse than dreadding work as you hate it.