Washington, D.C., and the New York metro region are the best places to look for IT jobs, outdistancing Silicon Valley and other tech-heavy regions, according to the Dice Report which tracks IT hiring trends.

D.C. is a very strong market, in part because the Obama administration is moving forward on transparency and relying on tech-heavy programs to help push the economic recovery forward. There are 50,000 job postings every day in the region, according to Dice. New York remains a strong market to get a job even though demand is off 44 percent because of the economic meltdown on Wall Street. Dice still clocks more than 5,000 open positions on any given day.

Tom Silver, Dice's executive vice president, told eWeek that both Washington, D.C., and the New York metropolitan area are "major technology job centers." And a security clearance is like gold in the nation's capital, he said. "The stability of budgets in both government agencies and the contractors that serve the federal government is most likely the key differentiator versus other parts of the country," Silver said.

For more on where the jobs are:
- check out this eWeek.com article

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