Sweet lord! Welcome to the 21st Century... Please form an orderly iine. (Mind you, only a market researcher would list Active X and COM as different skillsets!)

However, this does tally with what I'm seeing, myself. My suspicion is, that although the amount of work that needs to be done in IT remains the same (and that there is a certain limit on how few people you can have, and still get that work done), there appears to be a retreat towards maintaining legacy applications. I suppose when companies are all concentrating on being able to continue paying their staff, the fact that the payroll application is written in COBOL is less of a worry. In the long run, it's probably a good thing for IT as a whole. A few years propping up the walls on legacy code tends to cure even the most hopeless optimists of the idea that porting everything to Ruby or .NET will solve the world's ills; while a certain amount of each day, spent trying to think how to write queries without using sub-selects, or following the 'logic' of someone who didn't think GOTOs were a bad idea, tends to quell your urge to complain about modern software.