A Study of Knowledge and Skills Required for Web Developers

Many researchers have investigated and studied on the knowledge and skills required for IT workforce, such as programmers, systems analysts, and IT managers. The results of these studies helped us not only to understand the changes of IT trends and to prepare IT workers for their future careers. But, the web developer, which is a newly evolving job title, has little been studied. This research is intended to look into the knowledge and skills for web developers by collecting and analyzing the job advertisements posted the commercial job boards in the Internet. The specific technical requirements for Web developers are programming languages knowledge/skills such as Java and JSP, database, and Internet/Web. Knowledge/skills for general development and knowledge on information technology are required in System section. The results of this research is expected to help us understand the knowledge and skills related to web development.