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Bobby points to a claim that employers are paying a premium for WebSphere skills (amongst others).

I was hoping to use Google Trends as a lazy way to demonstrate graphically why this is but the results for WebSphere are inconclusive.

SOA, however, is quite remarkable. [I'm assuming I can discount the non-IT-specific Dutch contribution to that chart by assuming it was constant across the period in question]

In situations of this sort, it is customary to joke about asking for a pay rise. I know I should resist.