Software developer profession expanding
Dan Geer · IEEE Software · 2006
Employment prospects for software developers are looking up. There are a greater number of developer positions globally than there are qualified software engineers to fill them. Rapid growth in the number of available SE jobs is the primary reason for this gap between the demand for developers and the supply. Other factors are giving way or don't have as much impact as they might seem to. Fears about employability after the dot-com fallout are fading. And, while in many countries, more jobs appear to be moving abroad, most of these countries see the number of available domestic openings outpace domestic developer numbers.