% of Companies

with Skill Now

Training for Next Year

Hiring for Next Year

Web Development Skills

Java

48

38

39

XML

37

45

37

HTML

71

41

37

Active Server Pages

48

40

37

Visual Basic

61

36

33

Language Skills

Java

48

36

36

C++

45

21

26

C

42

14

20

Cobol

34

8

10

Development Tool Skills

Microsoft Visual Basic

56

31

26

Oracle Developer 2000

29

17

20

Visual C++

30

16

17

PowerBuilder

20

8

10

Networking Skills

TCP/IP

80

35

35

IPX

37

7

6

SNA

27

8

6

DBMS/RDBMS Skills

Oracle

49

31

34

Microsoft SQL Server

54

34

25

Microsoft Access

65

21

12

DB2

28

11

10

Sybase Adaptive Server

12

4

6

Operating Systems Skills

Windows NT/2000

79

43

37

Solaris

32

11

18

Linux

32

16

11

HP-UX

24

6

11

Other Unix

28

11

9

Internetworking Skills

Routing

57

22

12

Gigabit Ethernet

31

19

10

Ethernet switching

56

17

8

10 Base-T switching

48

10

6

LAN Skills

Microsoft NT Server

71

31

22

Ethernet

64

19

10

HTTP

48

14

10

Novell NetWare

41

10

6

Office, E-mail & Groupware Skills

Microsoft Exchange

52

26

21

Lotus Notes

23

17

7

Novell GroupWise

14

4

2

cc:Mail

15

2

2

Enterprise Application Skills

Oracle

31

21

19

SAP

14

7

8

PeopleSoft

15

7

7

Siebel

8

6

5

J.D. Edwards

7

2

3

Systems Software & Support Skills

Internet application development

50

31

30

E-commerce app. development

36

27

28

Web server administration

53

25

23

Project management

57

28

20

Data warehousing & data mining

33

23

18