[naiwenwt]

BLS also projects "Software Developer" jobs to increase by 25% by 2032 [0]. Without more detail on how these roles are categorized, hard to say if this is a valuable source of data.

[0] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...

[leereeves]

The latter seems to be the primary category, with 1,795,300 jobs vs 147,400 computer programmers.

And combining the -11% of 147K and +25% of 1.8M, BLS is projecting a net increase of over 400K jobs in the two categories.

But that includes QA and testers.