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DA6. Analyze Joomla’s Developers Skill Sets

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Answer

  • This text will take a look at the first 10 jobs of both websites and aggregate the presented details.
  • This is a very good way to get a quick overview of the skills required for the job, but not a scientific approach to build strong conclusions.
  • Note: The job postings are constantly changing, so the results may vary.

LinkedIn.com

  • search term used was “joomla” and “worldwide”, and the first 10 jobs were taken into account.
  • LinkedIn has very personalized job results, so, The results were according to my profile which listed as a software engineer and web developer with PHP as a skill.
Id Skill Number of times appeared in the first 10 jobs total (out of 10)
1 PHP ########### 10
2 Zend Engine # 1
3 WordPress ###### 6
4 Joomla ####### 7
5 Drupal #### 4
6 Laravel ## 2
7 Symfony ## 2
8 CakePHP ## 2
9 MySQL ###### 6
10 RDS # 1
11 JavaScript ########## 10
12 AWS # 1
13 Docker # 1
14 HTML,CSS ########## 10
15 React, Angular, Vue ###### 6
16 Rest ##### 5
17 JQuery ##### 5
18 Git, Jira, Agile ####### 7
19 UI/UX Tools ### 3
20 E-commerce ## 2
  • Titles included:
    • Full Stack Developer
    • Full Stack Engineer
    • Frontend Developer
    • PHP Developer
    • Drupal Developer
    • LAMP Developer
    • Laravel Developer

Indeed.com

  • Search term used was “joomla developer” and “worldwide”, and the first 10 jobs were taken into account.
  • I don’t have a profile on Indeed.com, so the results are not personalized, and contained a lot of irrelevant jobs, so the search term changed from “joomla” to “joomla developer” to get more relevant results.
Id Skill Number of times appeared in the first 10 jobs total (out of 10)
1 PHP ######### 9
2 Magento ### 3
3 WordPress ######### 9
4 Joomla ########## 10
5 Drupal ######## 8
6 Laravel # 1
7 Symfony 0
8 CakePHP # 1
9 MySQL #### 4
10 RDS 0
11 JavaScript ########## 10
12 AWS 0
13 Docker 0
14 HTML,CSS ########## 10
15 React, Angular, Vue 0
16 Rest #### 4
17 JQuery ######## 8
18 Git, Jira, Agile #### 4
19 UI/UX Tools ### 3
20 E-commerce #### 4
  • Titles included:
    • Website Developer
    • Laravel Developer
    • PHP Developer
    • Frontend Developer

Conclusion

  • We notice that PHP, and JS, HTML, CSS are the most required skills.
  • JQuery is also popular in this branch of the market (while it is almost dying in most of the other branches).
  • Restful APIs, Git, Agile, E-commerce, and UI/UX are also popular, in this field.
  • We notice the emergence of Magento in the second list.
  • The first list is different from the second list, because the first list is personalized, and the second list is not; However, we still notice the same trends for the main skills required in this branch of the market.

What further training opportunities exist for learning about Joomla?

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