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Linux Professionals Wanted, Survey Says

posted by janrinok on Friday March 07 2014, @04:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the Is-this-the-year-of-the-Linux-expert dept.

ticho writes:

"About 77% of hiring managers say finding Linux talent is a priority this year, up from 70% last year, and there's 'explosive demand' around the world for people with Linux skills, according to a recent report. A survey found hiring managers at tech-powered companies are focusing more attention on Linux talent, with the result that those who can work with the open source operating system will earn stronger-than-average salary increases.

Other findings include:

More than nine in 10 hiring managers plan to hire a Linux professional in the next six months;

Hiring managers are increasing the number of Linux professionals they are searching for. Forty six percent of hiring managers are beefing up their plans for recruiting Linux talent over the next six months, a three-point increase over last year.

Knowing Linux advances careers. Eighty-six percent of Linux professionals report that knowing Linux has given them more career opportunities, and 64 per cent say they chose to work with Linux because of its pervasiveness.

 
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  • (Score: 1) by cykros on Friday March 07 2014, @04:57PM

    by cykros (989) on Friday March 07 2014, @04:57PM (#12924)

    I'd say the year of Linux came awhile ago. Sure, desktops lag behind, but Linux tends to beat most other competition across other hardware platforms. Linux on mobile markets (between android, symbian, firefoxOS, sailfish, maemo, and even on dumbphones) is pretty much king (with iOS and Windows trailing behind by quite a stretch. On embedded systems, it's often the go to OS. Webservers? They've been mostly linux for years.

    The year of the Linux desktop, otoh, still has a ways to go. Steam pushes it in the right direction, but there are a good number of mission critical professional software suites that just require Windows, and that inertia is quite stubborn to break. MS helped a little with Win 8, but it'll take more than that.

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Doctor on Friday March 07 2014, @05:38PM

    by Doctor (3677) on Friday March 07 2014, @05:38PM (#12939)

    Until things like AutoCAD get ported over to Linux, it is really hard to keep that as your main OS for the desktop. Minimally you have to keep a VM running Windows.

    --
    "Anybody remotely interesting is mad in some way." - The Doctor

    • (Score: 1, Informative) by crutchy on Friday March 07 2014, @09:58PM

      by crutchy (179) on Friday March 07 2014, @09:58PM (#13046) Homepage Journal

      google "draftsight" by dassault systemes (also developed catia)

  • (Score: 2) by Desler on Friday March 07 2014, @06:16PM

    by Desler (880) on Friday March 07 2014, @06:16PM (#12963)

    Symbian doesn't use the Linux kernel. Where ever did you hear such nonsense?