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The DC Metro region is the dominant player right now, with the New York Metro area coming in second. There is a significant delta between Silicon Valley and the D.C. and N.Y. regions.

Why?

I put that and a number of questions to Dice SVP and CMO, Tom Silver. What follows is a Q&A with Silver:

Why the high propensity of job openings in D.C. Metro and N.Y./N.J.?

Both Washington, D.C., and the New York metropolitan regions are major technology job centers and have been so for quite some time. D.C. is by far the strongest market when you look at demand on a year-over-year basis—which is flat. Demand in New York is off 44 percent versus March last year. The decline is not surprising given the number of financial services firms in the N.Y. area. However, there are still more than 5,000 open positions in New York on any given day, making it one of our larger markets.

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