The United States are truly united in loving technology. Yet this love of technology varies sharply by region. RezScore sampled resumes we received from each state in 2016 and mapped the statistically significant technology skill or practice for each state.
Selected State Profiles
California: Cloud-y with no chance of rain
The Golden State remains the preferred headquarters for most of the USA’s top technology firms. Yet California’s high-tech workers rely disproportionately on technology out of Seattle: Californians are 3.4x more likely than the average US worker to tout expertise with Amazon Web Services.
Californians proved more tech savvy than residents of most other states. Most other states had only one or two skills that appeared with over 2x greater frequency than average. Californians had several. Close runners up to AWS were MongoDB (3.2x), Maya (2.9x), Rails (2.7x), Cassandra (2.5x) and VLSI (2.0x).
Utah and Nevada: The Ruby Belt
On PYPL’s list of most popular programming languages, Ruby falls in 12th place with a 2.1% overall share. If you looked only in the mountain west, it may crack the top ten. Users in Utah were 3.4x more likely to mention Ruby; users in Nevada 4.3x more likely.
ANSYS: Engineering an Electoral Win
ANSYS may not have won the 2016 popular vote - ANSYS appeared on only 1.2% of users’ resumes. By way of comparison, a popular term like Microsoft Excel appears on a whopping 33% of resumes.
ANSYS appeared on resumes 2.3x more often in Texas, 4.3x more often in South Carolina, and 4.9x more often in SC. If this map were scored as in US politics, ANSYS would win the electoral vote by winning three states worth a total of 63 electors, narrowly edging CompTIA with four states worth 60.
Lotus: Apps for Appalachia
Lotus is not commonly seen on many tech revues. Yet it has a clear regional foothold. Lotus Notes was 3.9x more common in Kentucky and 2.5x more common in West Virginia than the national average.
Bloomberg: Toast of Wall Street
Wall Street had a good year in 2016. Demonstrating their financial savvy: Bloomberg technologies appeared 3x more often in New York and 2.7x more often in New Jersey.
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