The following list is based on 3712 job openings from direct employers (no recruiters) in Fairfield County posted between 1-1-2012 and 3-1-2012:

1) SQL
2) C++
3) VISUAL BASIC
4) JAVA
5) C
6) C#
7) JAVASCRIPT
8) PYTHON
9) PERL
10) PHP
11) J2EE  (JAVA 2 ENTERPRISE EDITION)
12) FLEX
13) JQUERY
14) COBOL
15) J2ME
16) JCL  (JOB CONTROL LANGUAGE)
17) FORTRAN
18) VISUAL C++
19) VB.NET
20) C SHELL

Note: None of the TOP 20 programming languages requested in Fairfield County is moving quickly up or down the ranks. While individual programming technologies may change ranks from month to month their general position is fairly stable. In the list above, jQuery is the only programming technology that has risen quickly into the TOP 20 list over the last two years.

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