Eweek has this article on the ten programming languages you should learn right now. The (sorted) job availabilities they list for each language are as follows:
- Java: 14,408
- C (and all derivatives): 6,164
- VB.Net: 2,090
- C#: 5,111
- Perl: 4,810
- Javascript: 4,406
- PHP: 1,152
- AJAX: 1,106
- Python: 811
- Ruby and Ruby on Rails: 210 & 54
Interesting to note that Java still has more than twice the job availabilities of C, the next language in line. Though not a full-time programmer, I can claim to be somewhat competent with 5, 6, 7 and 9, the last one being my favorite and strongest skill. Thanks to this list, I’m inspired to add a couple more languages to this list. Guess I’ll probably be learning AJAX and Ruby first. Java/C/C#/VB.Net are just too hardcore for a lowly sysadmin like moi.