IT professionals enjoyed a dramatically improved hiring landscape in 2010, marked in particular by the fewest job cuts in a year since 2000. The popularity of smartphones and tablets, in particular, is helping to drive growth in electronics, telecom and computers. Forrester Research predicts that 2011 IT spending will increase 7.5 percent in the U.S. and 7.1 percent globally. Linux professionals tend to get a significant salary premium of as much as 10 percent over other IT workers, Dice reports.”]
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