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Last Chance: Share Your Insights for the 2025 Salary Report
Are you a tech professional looking to make a strategic career move? Or perhaps you're simply curious about how your compensation stacks up against industry standards? If so, we invite you to participate in the latest Dice salary survey, which provides the data for the massive Dice Tech Salary Report that we launch at the beginning of every year (here’s last year’s edition). Yes, there’s the potential to win a gift card if you participate (which is great!)—but it’s also about making sure the tech industry hears your valuable insights. By taking the survey, you'll help us provide accurate and up-to-date data on tech compensation trends and much more—including the average salaries for different tech roles in the hottest job markets. Please click here to take the survey! Here are just some of the annual benefits from the Dice Tech Salary Report: Show me the money: Discover how your salary compares to others in your field. Identify career opportunities: Pinpoint regions or companies offeri
Tech Unemployment Made a Surprising Dip Last Month
The tech unemployment rate tumbled from 3.4 percent to 2.5 percent in September, the biggest such dip in four years, according to a new analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data by CompTIA. “It was never really a question of if, but when employers were going to resume hiring,” Tim Herbert, chief research officer for CompTIA, wrote in a statement accompanying the data. “A broad mix of companies viewed recent economic developments as the greenlight to move forward in addressing their tech talent needs.” The broader economy gained 118,000 new tech positions, while employment within the tech industry rose by 8,583 net positions. “Analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) #JobsReport data reveals new hiring was primarily driven by the subsectors of cloud infrastructure, data processing and hosting (+6,000) and tech services and custom software development sector (+2,900),” continued CompTIA’s report. “An estimated 6.4 million professionals are employed in core tech occu
Are Tech Pros Using AI for Programming Education?
You’ve no doubt heard about tech professionals turning to generative AI tools such as ChatGPT to learn new things about coding. But are a majority of tech pros actually using AI for programming education? Or are they still relying on tried-and-true methods such as technical documentation and how-to videos? According to Stack Overflow’s exhaustive Developer Survey, a significant percentage of tech pros are turning to AI for coding tips—but they’re using other methods a lot more. Here’s a chart based on data from 48,822 respondents: Given all the hype around AI, some folks might wonder why more tech pros haven’t adopted ChatGPT and its ilk as learning tools. Stack Overflow’s survey also found that 31 percent of developers and engineers seem skeptical of AI’s output to some degree; they might not necessarily trust what a chatbot tells them about the nuances of coding. But looking at it from another angle, AI tools are relatively new and have already surpassed other learning methods as a g
Tech Unemployment Ticked Upward Last Month
The tech unemployment rate ticked upward last month, hitting 3.4 percent, according to the latest U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data analyzed by research firm CompTIA. That’s still notably below the national unemployment rate of 4.2 percent. Once you dig into the data, a more nuanced picture emerges. For example, the tech services and custom software development subindustries added some 3,400 workers in August, even as tech manufacturing lost 2,500 workers. Job postings for tech positions increased to just over 500,000 last month, while actual tech occupation employment declined by 28,000 positions. “The bumpy stretch of tech labor market data requires the usual balancing of shorter-term and longer-term perspectives,” Tim Herbert, chief research officer for CompTIA, wrote in a statement accompanying the data. (Or as Charles Dickens once said: it was the best and worst of times.) Employers remain hungry for tech professionals regardless of their formal degrees. “Job posting data
GitHub Copilot: Deep Dive into an AI Assistant
Artificial intelligence (AI) has reached a saturation point where every developer needs to make use of it, or at least consider integrating it into their current workflows. Among the most popular types of AI are chatbots and code completion tools built into IDEs, including VS Code and GitHub Copilot. If you’re using a popular IDE, and you want to be a developer, you must learn Copilot. (There are other competing tools you’ll probably want to learn, too, especially Amazon’s Q for Developer.) Let’s take a deep dive into Copilot and find out how you should direct your learning and practice. What is Github Copilot? GitHub Copilot is an AI tool created by GitHub in conjunction with OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT. It’s a plugin for various IDEs, including VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains, and even a fork of Vim called Neovim. It includes a chat and a code autocomplete feature, and it functions essentially as a second person in a paired programming scenario, helping write code, answer question