I&#x27;d like to ask you all about what you have experienced &amp; seen on Craiglist and Dice that would give you an idea on how good or bad the IT job market is or was. I hear conflicting stories of qualified people not able to find jobs after a year of searching and on the flip side, of companies not able to find people (the so-called &#x27;IT talent shortage&#x27;).<p>I used both websites on &amp; off since the late 90s to find contract &amp; permanent full-time jobs. Back then at the height of the dot-coms, the Dice home page showed 120,000+ jobs, right after the crash (2001-2003)  that number fell to around 20,000-30,000. Now it&#x27;s around 80,000.<p>On Craigslist, at the dot com height, the Software section for the Bay Area (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sfbay.craigslist.org&#x2F;search&#x2F;sof) had so many job postings per day that the list of postings for that day would spill over to the next page (there are 100 listings per page). Now, there&#x27;s only a handful of postings per day.<p>I&#x27;d like to get an idea of the IT job market&#x27;s fluctuation over the years by compiling these data points. I did a Google search for charts with these data points but couldn&#x27;t find any. If any of you used these two sites anytime from the late 90s to today and remember the # of postings for that specific date or time period, please post it here. Ideally, I&#x27;d like to get month to month data with high interest on data points from 1999-2003 and 2006 to today.<p>Thank you.
Ask HN: Measuring the IT job market using Craiglist and Dice job postings