http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=15500149
The latest employment data suggests that IT joblessness has stopped increasing, and runs slightly less than the overall national average in the USA. However the good news is not evenly distributed -- database administrators and computer programmers have been especially hard-hit, as have older workers [or workers with degrees which are over 30 years old].
On the other hand, business-technology managers, computer scientists, and software engineers enjoy brighter prospects. Both Microsoft .NET and Linux developers are in demand, as are people with an IT-audit background. On the remaining appendage, recruiters are still getting 100 applications for every single open position, so the boom days are not exactly here again.
Posted by jho at October 30, 2003 11:01 AM