All the responses were submitted by working actuaries. I am a student in college majoring in mathematics and am taking actuarial exams. Please let me know what are the most common languages that employers desire their actuaries to know. One company required a proficiency in SAS programming.
Database programming is also useful.
Two companies I worked for used FoxPro for organizing large databases of claim information. Another company used Access. Response 2 Visual basic would be my first choice. I believe this is particularly true for consulting, perhaps less so for insurance companies, who still maintain a lot of mainframe systems due to the volume. Many of those systems were developed in-house and only loosely resemble anything the student may have learned in school.