Programmer Jobs – A USA Listing

Welcome to our Programmer Jobs site. The purpose of this site is to provide a frequently updated list of current open positions for the computer programmer. Our focus is on programmer jobs which are available in the United States.

Our list of programmer jobs consists of a page for each state, and each page combines the results from several job search engines. Our paradigm is similar to the meta-search engines like Dogpile, except here we combine the results from job search engines as opposed to regular search engines. If you own a job search engine and you provide an RSS feed for your search result, and your RSS feed is not on our result page, contact us by going to our “About” page, and we will include your result for each page.

Here we also provide to the computer programmer informative articles, useful statistics, videos, a book store, and current computer programmer news. The programmer jobs listed here are in the form of RSS feeds, and will be automatically updated when new jobs become available. This site is produced by IntellegoJobs, a division of Intellego Web Publishing.

The following data should be interesting to the programmer who resides within the United States. This data comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and is for May, 2007.

Programmer Jobs – Statistics (Bureau of Labor Statistics)

States with the highest concentration of computer programmers with annual salary:
(highest at top)

Utah $73,030
Delaware $73,290
New Jersey $83,000
District of Columbia $73,790
New York $73,430

Top paying States for computer programmers with annual salary:
(highest at top)

New Jersey $83,000
Washington $82,800
Connecticut $81,980
Virginia $79,380
California $79,300

Mean annual salary for computer programmers:

$72,010

Metropolitan areas with the highest concentration of computer programmers with annual salary:

Edison, NJ Metropolitan Division $83,360
Boulder, CO $86,520
Durham, NC $82,730
Carson City, NV $69,790
Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY $62,100

Top paying metropolitan areas for computer programmers:

Winchester, VA-WV $105,100
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA $100,700
Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown, NY $97,800
Rochester, MN $95,770
Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA $94,850

Industries with the highest level of employment for the computer programmer:
(highest at top)

Computer Systems Design and Related Services
Software Publishers
Management of Companies and Enterprises
Employment Services
Insurance Carriers

Top paying industries for computer programmer

Computer and Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing $97,330
Monetary Authorities – Central Bank $85,620
Other Telecommunications $85,520
Other Financial Investment Activities $84,660
Securities and Commodity Contracts Intermediation and Brokerage $84,470

Education required for the computer programmer:

The typical education preparation for a computer programmer is a bachelor degree in computer science. For a limited number of programming jobs, a two year degree may be adequate. But to be competitive in this job market, you really need a four year degree and relevant experience and or certification in the area of programming you want to work.

If you want to be a system programmer, you must have a bachelor degree and must be able to work with database systems, such as DB2, Oracle, or Sybase. Knowledge of traditional programming languages is important, but today employers are putting a greater emphasis on object-oriented languages such as C++ and Java. Certification and or experience in these programming languages is needed if you want to be competitive in today’s job market.

The bottom line to educational preparation to be a computer programmer is that you need relevant experience, certification, and or appropriate technical training in the specific computer programming language or languages that you want to work in. A college degree gives you a foundation for the building of these necessary credentials.

For more information about education required for the computer programmer in the United States go to Occupational Outlook Handbook provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Job outlook for computer programmer:

Employment of computer programmers is expected to decline slowly, decreasing by 4% during the time period of 2006 to 2016. This is due in part to offshore outsourcing and programming jobs now being completed by other computer workers such as computer software engineers. Programmers with a bachelors degree and experience with a variety of programming languages and tools will have the best job prospects.

Although employment for programmers is expected to decline, job openings will result from programmers leaving the profession. The languages that are in demand today include C++, Java, and other object-oriented languages, and job prospects will be best for those programmers who have expertise with these programming languages.

Source for the above data:
Bureau of Labor Statistics

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