U.S. expects drop in programming jobs, but gains in IT jobs overall
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) says IT jobs will grow 12% over the next decade, except for programmers. That occupation will shrink as more work is shifted to lower wage countries, according to the government.
The government counted 328,600 computer programmers in 2014, but over the next 10 years this number is expected to decline by 8% or 26,500 jobs, the BLS said in its biennial update of its Occupational Outlook Handbook released Friday.
Software developers, the largest occupational group in IT, which employs 1.11 million, will increase by 17% or 186,600, over this period.
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