March 1, 2012
Tech Trends
Mobile Future in Focus
The Annual ComScore Report
“2011 was a pivotal year for the mobile industry, marked by the dra matic rise of smartphones in the mainstream, the burgeoning of tablets and other web-enabled connected devices, and a cultural shift toward cross-platform digital media consumption. With mobile becoming an increasing part of comprehensive digital marketing strategies, it becomes more important than ever to understand how the current trends are shaping the mobile environment, with an eye to what lies ahead for 2012.”
The key findings of this report go to Smartphone adoption, the platform war, the surge in application usage, and the retail disruption of the technology.
Factoids:
- Nearly 42% of U.S. mobile subscribers now user smartphones.
- Mobile media usage has surpassed the 50% penetration mark.
- Google Android has captured almost half of the U.S. smartphone market, Apple iOS has nearly 30%.
- Mobile applications usage now equals mobile browsing; categories most accessed include health, retail, commerce-related categories such as electronic payments and auction sites.
- More than 50% of U.S. smartphone users have done a mobile retail search while inside a store, nearly 20% of users scan barcodes, and 12.5% compared prices via their mobile in while in-store.
- Mobile users accessing job listings has grown 74% in 2011 over 2010.
- 77% more U.S. smartphone users accessed social networking or blog destinations via their mobile device year over year.
- Tablets are taking fourth place in digital media consumption after TV, PCs, and smartphones.
Hiring in areas of digital media is exploding. Redfish is currently recruiting for many roles in application development and mobile sales and marketing positions. Mobile platform and digital media companies typically offer a dynamic, collaborative and fast-paced environment along with competitive salaries and benefits. Successful sales and marketing candidates typically come from a background in software, rich media technology, mobile solutions, or ad-serving technologies. Successful development candidates need expertise in: java/J2EE, Ajax, Ruby, Rails, Web Application Development, SQL, HTML, JSON, XML, JavaScript, CSS, EXT-JS or similar Web UI toolkits, and distributed application development.
Click here to access the complete ComScore report.
December 2, 2011
Tech Trends
Hiring and Salaries Projected to Increase in 2012 by Major Research Firms.
The newly published Robert Half 2012 Technology Salary Guide provides projected average starting salary ranges for more than 70 IT positions and features the five mid- and senior-level tech professionals that are highest in demand. Mobile media is the main impetus for the highest growth technology, as smartphone use and tablet adoption continues to grow.
Average starting salaries for 2012 are predicted to go up over 2011 levels across the board. The Senior Management increases range from 3.0% to 3.9%, Applications Development functions between 2.0% for technical writers and 9.1% for mobile applications developers.
The tech industry paid an annual average wage of $86,800 in 2010, 93 percent more than the average private sector wage of $45,000 according to CyberStates 2011.
RHT forecasts that tech firms top hiring priorities (and starting salary ranges) in 2012 will be:
1. Systems Engineers ($70,250 – $102,000) and Networking Engineers ($75,000 – $107,750)
2. Developers ($70,000 – $111,000 for Software Developers)
3. Quality Assurance Professionals and Business Analysts ($71,750 – $103,250)
4. Data Warehousing ($88,000 135,750) and Business Intelligence Professionals ($87,750 – $123,500)
5. Security Professionals ($85,000 – $143,500)
Premiums are the norm in higher demand / higher cost of living areas, New York garners the highest premium at 41%, and San Francisco comes in second at a 35.5% upward variance.
Project Managers, Software Engineers, Java Developers, Business Analysts, Systems Administrators, Database Administrators, and Programmers are particularly in demand. Over the downturn engineering managers, computer hardware engineers, database administrators, and aerospace engineers, all managed to keep unemployment below five percent.
The TechServe Alliance monthly index shows that more than 7,000 IT jobs were added in October, an increase of 87,000 positions from October 2010, or 2.2 percent. That’s about 4.1 million IT jobs. “According to both data and the anecdotal reports of my member companies, demand for IT professionals in key skill sets remains strong,” said TechServe Alliance CEO Mark Roberts. According to the Brookings Institute, rising computer and electronic exports to Asia fueled that industry’s 7 percent job growth in the third quarter in Silicon Valley.
The positions the TechServe Alliance reports to be in the highest demand are:
1. Project Managers
2. Software Engineers
3. Java Developers
4. Business Analysts
5. Systems Administrators
6. Database Administrators
7. Programmers
Reference / Further Reading recommended by Redfish Technology
Robert Half Technology 2012 Salary Guide
TechServe Alliance IT Employment Index
Cyberstates 2011 Key National Findings
September 1, 2011
Ubiquitous Connection. What are the Limitations?
The accessibility to data plans and connected devices has had a resounding effect on the work and leisure habits of most of Americans. It is also changing the way in which we consume business tools and services.
The affordability of data plans has fueled the growth in demand for wireless services. The growth in consumers has increased the market for services and products. The iPhone and iPad continue to be rapidly adopted, and Android devices have their own momentum with up to 500,000 activations per day now according to TechCrunch.
Innovations in mobile devices are fast and furious and the industry has become a multi-million dollar industry. The global mobile applications industry is projected to be worth $25 billion in 2015 in the report World Mobile Applications Market – Advanced Technologies, Global Forecast (2010 – 2015) by marketsandmarkets.com.
From the shift to social sharing and spread of the virtual office, the proliferation of wireless devices and subscriptions continues to grow. Over the last four years, the number of mobile phone subscribers has grown three-fold and the number of telecom jobs has grown five-fold. Will this growth rate continue? (more…)
January 12, 2011
Technology Trends This Year
Gartner’s Talking Technology Series features Daryl Plummer, Managing VP, in a discussion on the top IT predictions for 2011 and beyond. These top predictions are intended to set the stage of what is going to happen in the most interesting areas of Gartner’s research. The trends are towards a shifting in the way technology and IT organizations are employed by businesses, global economies and individuals. Here’s a quick and dirty list of the predictions:
- Online sabotage: A G20 nation’s critical infrastructure will be disrupted and damaged via the internet, by 2015. (more…)
December 15, 2010
High Tech Job Trends
from the December 2010 Newsletter
Tech Job Demand
According to the new Salary Guide 2011, by Robert Half Technology, the majority of CIOs find that understaffing is interfering with their ability to implement new technologies and that it a challenge to find IT talent with the right skills. A rebound may occur as projects previously deferred or promising a high return on investment are rolled out. The report lists demands highest for these skill sets: programming, business analysis in concert with project management, ERP technological proficiency, security, infrastructure support, networking, and electronic medical records. (more…)
December 14, 2010
Priority Job Opportunities in High Tech from Redfish Technology
Priority Tech Jobs from Redfish Technology. Roles: Vice President – Products; Sales Director; Senior Account Executives; Strategic Account Manager; Quality Assurance Engineer; System Administrators; Software Developers: Java, PHP, MySQL. Industries: Mobile Applications; Storage-Disaster Recovery; Workforce Optimization; Unified Communications; eLearning; VOIP; Wireless; Social Media; Advertising; Security. (more…)
November 24, 2010
Priority Job Opportunities in High Tech from Redfish Technology
Great Career Opportunities & Priority Jobs from Redfish Technology – This week’s priorities include: Account Executives – Unified Communications, Sales Executives – Software as a Service, Account Executives – Digital Media & Advertising; Federal Sales – Networking, Senior QA Engineer – Social Media Analytics, QA – Mobile Wireless, Support Engineer – Targeted Advertising Software, Developers – Online Service/Mobile Applications, Java Developers, Software Engineers - Enterprise Content Delivery, and more! (more…)
November 16, 2010
Priority Job Opportunities in High Tech from Redfish Technology
Priority Career Opportunities from Redfish Technology: Unified Communications Account Executives, Software as a Service Sales Executive, Digital Media & Advertising Account Executives; Federal Sales in Networking, Support Engineer in Targeted Advertising Software, Online Service/Mobile Applications Developer, Java Developers, Enterprise Content Delivery Software Engineers, Mobile Wireless QA, and more! (more…)
July 27, 2010
Priority Job Opportunities in High Tech from Redfish Technology
This week’s priorities include: QA Lead for Mobile/Wireless – positions in Northern and Southern California; Senior Account Executive in Unified Communications Software in N. California; Senior Software Engineer emphasis on experience with Blackberry/RIM/Mobile OS Architect; Senior Product Marketing Management Mobile Sector; Senior Software Engineer/Web Proxy; UNIX Network Engineer with leading Telecom/VoIP company, … (more…)
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