[lotsofpulp]

IT is not comparable to SWE.

[walshemj]

That's situational in the UK IT is short hand for working in tech

[perl4ever]

Software engineering isn't IT, and it isn't engineering, according to the know-it-alls (ok, probably different people), so what does that leave?

Fact remains, some organizations classify everyone as an IT specialist that does anything with a computer.

[perl4ever]

All of the latter are a subset of the former in this context.

And of course, many people go from, say, QA, help desk, 3rd tier support, or programmer/analyst to developer.