I was wondering what the job trends for Adobe AIR developers was. It's fun to see how much time the word "Adobe AIR" appears in job postings around the globe. The following graph shows this trend from which you can understand how the AIR Developer job position will grow in the next future :
If you compare thi graph to the one that uses "Adobe Flex" as words, you can see how they look similar.
The job trends for Flex developers is growing more and more and more as you can see from the graph :
Have also a look at the growth of Flex Data Services jobs. Cool !!
For what concerns our experiences it's a great momentum for Flex Data Services (or Livecycle Data Services) in Europe. We are making a lot of interesting consulting activities on this stuff (FDS, Flex, LCDS) and we receive a lot of requests !
Web application developers can now reuse existing open source C and C++ client or server-side code on the Flash Platform.
Posted by: Supra Shoes | July 27, 2010 at 05:30 AM
Adobe AIR, still quite not for everyone1
Posted by: louis vuitton | March 06, 2010 at 08:55 AM
I'm not sure about the validity of such statistics, considering that Adobe AIR is an unreleased software for which do not exist even a release date yet, so why anybody would search a job for it (a job generally consists in "something to do in a certain time frame", if the tool is not yet on the amrket I wonder who's the crazy company reliyng on such thing)? Also the graph show such a pretty undertermined situation as the demand for "Adobe AIR" expertise seems to go up and down like a rollercoaster. If somehow we want to believe these "trends" and you search for "Silverlight" you will find that percentage of available "jobs" for it is costantly growing up and reaches the 0.01% figure, while Adobe AIR peaked 0.000325% last October and it is currently at 0.000225% (that is over 40 times less than MS Silverlight). In absolute values, at the moment the database holds 539 "positions" available for "Silverlight" and only 49 for "Adobe AIR". In my opinion is better to wait for these products to be in the market before making any assumption on the popularity.
Posted by: Emanuele Cipolloni | December 13, 2007 at 09:31 PM