Takes to hire one developer (at least)
Growth rate of shortage for the last 2 years
Developers shortage in 2022
Developers are hard to find (less than a couple interviews per month)
More developers change jobs every year rather than stay in the same company
Hard to find developers in South Korea
Hard to find junior and experienced developers - especially for startups.
Afraid to hire remote developers due to lack of trust and management costs.
On the other side, about 86 million workers in APAC need to be upskilled or reskilled with advanced digital skill (The Economist). So there is more and more demand in re-skilling and for developers there are big shortage worldwide – from South Korea (20,000 shortage in 2021) to US (4 million developers by 2025).