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