December 08, 2025
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It’s a terrible time to find (and keep) a job for most software engineers.
At least, this has been the resounding message of 2025. But there may be more to the story than meets the eye.
A Bloomberry analysis of global jobs data from January 2023 to October 2025 found that despite the widespread sense of doom, the overall number of software engineering jobs has held mostly steady since 2024. “Software engineering is still one of the most secure jobs you can have today, relative to most other white-collar jobs,” writes Bloomberry CTO Henley Wing Chiu in a summary of the findings.
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December 08, 2025
