 According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), "computer applications software engineers and computer systems software engineers are projected to be among the faster than average growing occupations" The expected ten-year growth as of 2014 for computer software engineering was an estimated seventeen percent and there was a total of 1,114,000 jobs that same year.This is down from the 2012 to 2022 BLS estimate of 22% for software developers.And, further down from the 30% 2010 to 2020 BLS estimate.