Industry Insights

Tech unemployment hasn’t been this low since the turn of the
century, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data crunched by
CompTIA.

As of May, tech’s unemployment rate sat at 1.3 percent. “There is now the very real …

If you thought big banks are such big spenders on technology that they’re actually “tech companies” in disguise, you might want to take a long, hard look at some of the recent reports coming out of UBS’s Evidence Lab. In the …

If you want to make sure you don’t lose your job in the next five years, you probably want to know something about Big Data, or even switch to a data-related career. But what do Big Data jobs entail?

Speaking …

The TIOBE Index for July is out, and there’s not much movement at the top of the leaderboard. Python has usurped C++ for third place, which is actually impressive; plus, it ate or slithered past a few popular languages to …

Python is the most-studied language among developers, with 27 percent of respondents to a recent JetBrains survey saying they’ve either started or continued to learn it in the past year.

While Python isn’t the most-used language among those developers/respondents (that …

As the calendar moves quickly toward late June, we are trending toward the tail end of the college graduation season, which is an incredibly exciting time. To those newly-minted graduates, congratulations on a major life accomplishment! All your hard work …

Should you be applying for a technology job with a hedge fund? Sure, if you want to get paid. While banks are generally considered to pay less than big tech companies, hedge funds such as Citadel Investment Group seem to …

Pay for tech professionals is plateauing. Meanwhile, employers are trying to make working at their company interesting, with more perks and benefits (remote work, flexible schedules, full-service juice bar, you name it). So we want to know: Do you want …

The tide may be turning for banking technology jobs. After long years of increasing investment, there are growing signs that banks are subjecting their technology budgets to the sort of vigilance applied to other areas of the business. However one …

If you can’t code and you work in finance, you risk being pushed out by those who can. Not today, not tomorrow, but soon. Slowly, surely, the need for coding skills in a variety of languages, including Python, is percolating …