[sidmitra]

I think HN is a little self selective in that regard. Majority of the startups here are web startups, hence the concentration of "web developers".

Infact i would imaging there are an order of magnitude more people doing the same thing in the skillset you mention, except they prefer 'consultant'. Infact when i open the career section of the local newspaper here(India), that's pretty much all i see. i.e. pages after pages of acronyms that i've never heard, but are somehow related to ERP, SAP etc. Ofcourse they're more Java/.Net when it comes to enterprisey software.

[pendragon]

A very good point. Landing a non-web gig seems more daunting to me. In part, this may be because even small companies have websites whereas in the areas that I want to go into I would need to work with much larger clients.