The Future of Software Outsourcing

Forrester Research, a research and consulting firm indown your fear for a great extent. According to a
its report says that, jobs that are getting lost in thereport, attraction of cost saving in software
United States due to software outsourcing areoutsourcing is yet very high and because of that,
basically low salary IT jobs such as softwareincrease in jobs like software programmer will be very
programming or computer support specialists orless. That further results into very low increase in
computer operators. However, on the other hand, highsoftware programming jobs, salary rise will also hardly
paying jobs like system analysts, network analysts and1% in next few years. In fact, salary of computer
research analysts are continuing dominating theoperators and database administrators will also grow
market. In fact, jobs in this sector are growing at theat the minimal rate of 1%. However, salaries of
steadily rate of 4 to 5% every year. Normally, thesecomputer research scientists and information system
jobs require excellent domain knowledge and ideamanagers will have highest growth at around 3.5%
about the internal working of IT systems and businessevery year whereas salaries of analysts and system
process. In software outsourcing these qualities areadministrators will grow at the rate of 2 to 3% every
difficult to find.year.
Jobs that not get affected by software outsourcingOffshore software development
Higher skilled jobs such as system analysis andIt is also predicted that the market of software
application development are increasing at the rate ofoutsourcing which has major costs saving today will
6% per year. That's because, their demand is growingdecrease by 2008. The main reason behind this will be
continuously. Also, software outsourcing can be shiftedthe decreasing gap between the US salary and the
to India or other offshore software developmentoutsourcing countries such as India. As, it will lower the
countries, where buyers need in-house workforce tosalary in US, while in India and other offshore software
customize and upholder software.development countries, because of lack of availability
Reasons for decrease in Software outsourcing inof resources, salary rise will be very high. It will also
futuredecrease the costs saving. Finally, companies will
Are you the one afraid from this boom of softwareprefer their in-house resources rather then offshore
outsourcing? If yes, there is news which can loweroutsourcing.