It's always been several orders of magnitude more stable. It's competing very nicely with NT for the server market. Their markets haven't recovered from frozen projects during the Great Y2K Campaign of 1999. It was a cold specialty before the Y2K scare, now it's back to cold. Every two years a new king is crowned by market consensus.
Opportunities lie in ecommerce and wireless jobs.
Barbara Gomolski, research director for the tech research hub GartnerGroup, agrees that the technology industry has some cold contractor specialties right now. As a contractor you can't just put your head down and code. Barbara Gomolski, GartnerGroup Straight programming jobs also seem in short supply for freelancers, because companies that are outsourcing those functions are contracting with large body shops, she adds. When you hire a large consulting firm, you get its processes. With a free agent, the guy can come in, and no one knows what he did.