[provemewrong]

Some observations.

Wouldn't have thought of built-in help as a popular (47.1%) way of teaching yourself.

Oracle usage only 16.5%, but I guess it makes sense considering the web developer proportion.

CoffeeScript as the third most dreaded language, behind only two instances of Visual Basic. But reading the definition of "dreaded" in makes more sense.

Sharepoint as the most dreaded platform, ha ha, no surprise there.

Clojure as the top paying tech worldwide, wow. But missing entirely from the list in US, UK, Germany, France sections, so where are all the Clojure devs? In general that's... comforting, if only there were any Clojure shops in my country (okay, admittedly I've heard about one startup using it).

[skrebbel]

> Wouldn't have thought of built-in help as a popular (47.1%) way of teaching yourself.

The built-in help for eg Java, C# or Delphi is amazing. It starts with autocomplete, then a tooltip with a summary, and full details including examples are just an F1 away.

[tom_b]

Re: Clojure - something seems off with Clojure not being in any of the sub-regions at all.

I also noticed that Java is not in the world-wide list and yet is in all the sub-regions.

Given that the JVM is such a big part of the Clojure ecosystem, I want to dig into the data once they make it available. I'm totally willing to believe that developers with Clojure skills are in a high-salary bucket, but I'm a little suspicious of what they are showing here.

BTW, for some years I chased specific languages as the cause of the high earnings. I believe this is much less true than I originally assumed . . .

[woobar]

> Clojure as the top paying tech worldwide, wow. But missing entirely from the list in US, UK, Germany, France sections, so where are all the Clojure devs?

Probably, because it's reported mostly by US developers, but pay is not high enough to crack into US top paying list. Lowest position in US list is $75,000.

Also, world distribution might have affected Java position. While it is pretty high on US/UK/France and Germany list, the world salaries were depressed due to outsourcing.

[oblio]

> Oracle usage only 16.5%, but I guess it makes sense considering the web developer proportion.

At the end of the day, Oracle is expensive. Web or not.

[collyw]

Maybe that goes part of the way towards explaining the higher salaries. If all the jobs are in the US and jobs there usually pay more.