Bay area, CA is considered the technology hub of USA. In this difficult economy we thought it would be useful to understand what are the most in demand skills for a software engineer. We looked at the advertised software engineer jobs in salarydom and found the following interesting stats.

There are about 6000 software engineer jobs advertised in bay area. Nearly 2000 of these jobs need Java skills. About 2800 jobs ask for C/C++ skills. Some other lesser in demand skills are PHP (500), LAMP (125), AJAX (470) & Ruby on Rails (150).

From the above stats it appears that the most in demand skills are still the traditional languages Java & C/C++. However, it is true that most software engineer jobs do need a combination of various skills.