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Creating applications and making computer programs work seamlessly requires many people working many hours because every instruction must be explicit. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that across all industries, about 140,000 jobs in computing are being created every year that pay approximately $80,000. In some industries, computing jobs are growing by over 20 percent, which is two to four times the average growth rate across all occupations.

The demand is great, but computer programmers are in short supply. Colleges train the most computer programmers and graduate about 40,000 computer scientists per year. Using current estimates, by 2020 there will be 1,000,000 more jobs than qualified students, representing a $500 billion opportunity. See Figure 1-4.

Figure 1-4: By 2020, 1,000,000 coding jobs will go unfilled due to a lack of skilled workers.

Table 1-1 shows some of the coding occupations contributing to this boom. Each job is unique, and generally there is not a great deal of switching between jobs. For example, mobile developers don’t suddenly become data scientists, or vice versa. When people do switch between these positions, there is usually a training period.

Table 1-1 Entry-Level Coding Occupations

Sources: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Indeed.com, Glassdoor.com

Web developers are typically self-taught; according to census data, less than 40 percent have earned a four-year college degree. Many developers also enter the profession as a quality assurance analyst and then move into a junior web developer role.