It's nice to see that the number of job postings are expanding. Hopefully that's good news for the general market and economy. However, the IT job market has been relatively strong over the past few years. Despite the economic hardship over the last 4 years, many companies complain that they haven't been able to attract strong tech talent. A big reason is that many techies are hunkered down at their current job and cautious about taking the leap to a new company. Several tech recruiters I spoke with mentioned that the number of IT job offers rejected has gone up significantly in the past few years. IMO the offers just weren't good enough to make someone leave a good thing. Let's hope this loosens things up a bit and the market gets really strong.