.NET may top list of job skills in demand

ZDNet | at | by Mike

Core skills
The 'core' technical IT skills, according to e-skills, demanded by employers for both contractors and permanent staff are unchanged from last year except for the addition of .Net this year:

  • SQL
  • C++
  • Unix
  • Oracle
  • C
  • Windows NT
  • Java
  • Visual Basic
  • MS Office
  • .NET

Significantly, .Net skills are appearing on the must-have list alongside Java and XML. Hull University is developing--with Microsoft--the first .Net Post Graduate Degree course for Computer Science in the UK, beginning in September 2003. As part of the Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance, universities create a "lending library" where students can legally access copies of the products for home use.