Linux Foundation 2017 Open Source Jobs Report Released
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Linux Foundation 2017 Open Source Jobs Report Released
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The 2017 Open Source Jobs Survey and Report provides an overview of the trends for open source careers, motivation for professionals in the industry and how employers attract and retain qualified talent.
Key findings from the 2017 Open Source Jobs Survey and Report include:
Sixty-seven percent of managers say hiring of open source professionals will increase more than other areas of the business in the next six months.
A growing number of companies (60 percent) are looking for full-time hires, compared with 53 percent last year.
Nearly half (47 percent) of companies are willing to pay for employees to become open source certified.
Developer (73 percent), DevOps engineer (60 percent) and systems administrator (53 percent) are the most common positions employers seek to fill. Open source cloud (47 percent), application development (44 percent), Big Data (43 percent) and both DevOps and security (42 percent) are the skills most in demand.
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