size of XQuery developer community

[Michael Reiche]

Google shows 278M hits for java and 1.14M hits for xquery.

dice.com shows five job listings with "Xquery" in the title, a total of 82 jobs with xquery in the description
(curiously, all but one of the five are in Ohio - a veritable Xquery hotbed? more likely the same job posted my multiple agencies).  So if you're an out-of-work xquery developer, you don't have a lot of options.

for comparision, dice shows show 2633 jobs with "java" in the title and 8945 jobs with "java" in the description). 

so this places the Java:Xquery ratio somewhere around 100:1, 250:1, 500:1 

Call it 250:1.    Googling around I find a figure of 6.5M java developers, at 250:1, that would imply 26,000 xquery developers (sounds way high).  If I Google to find resumes that contain Xquery - I get 901.

Considering that JavaOne draws 15,000 attendees,   XqueryOne would draw 60. 

- Mike





-----Original Message-----
From: Daniela Florescu [mailto:http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 10:39 AM
To: Marcus Clemens
Cc: http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk
Subject: Re:  size of XQuery developer community

Thanks.

Here comes my second question to which I'd appreciate an insight:

2) Is the demand for XQuery developers larger then the offer ?

Thanks
Dana





On Aug 26, 2009, at 10:14 AM, Marcus Clemens wrote:

> I am a recruitment consultant in the UK and I have only come across 
> about 20 good ones here . if anyone wants to send their CV please do
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> Subject:  size of XQuery developer community
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> Dear all,
>
> almost every time when I give a talk about XQuery I get confronted 
> with the same  question, to which I do not know the answer.
>
> The question from the audience always is: " How many XQuery developers 
> are there? "
> -- with the underlying assumption that, indeed, there are not that 
> many.
>
> Please help me with this. I honestly don't know the answer.
>
> How do you appreciate the size of the XQuery developers community ?
> (thousands,
> tens of thousands, millions !!??)
>
> Thanks in advance, best regards
> Dana
>
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