I spent a while pulling together posting data, government projections and salary guides across four labour markets — the US, Europe, Russia and the GCC — for four role families that don't get as much coverage as "software engineer": cybersecurity, QA/test, product & project management, and IT support/sysadmin. The same split shows up in all four regions: security is short of people, support is being automated and legislated away, QA is thinning, and every door has narrowed at the junior e...