&gt; People in these jobs already include a large number of people who don&#x27;t have a CS degree, which means that the jobs do not require a CS degree but can include related degrees. (Eg, electrical engineering.)<p>Or not so related degrees: I work in a &quot;computing professions&quot; job (in fact, a programming job), and the only degree I have is in Political Science. While that&#x27;s perhaps further afield than most, I&#x27;ve known lots of people with degrees that weren&#x27;t particularly computing related working in computing related fields. This seems especially common with people whose degrees are in the field to which computing is being applied rather than a computing-related field, but sometimes there is no relationship at all.