[welly]

> I think that you may be vastly overestimating the number of web and mobile app developers. They're still a relatively small proportion of all software developers.

Do you think? I'd be interested to see statistics on this (I'm not doubting you in saying that!). Being as web development (in my experience as a web developer and occasional software developer) is the entry level for software development, I'd have thought web developers easily make up the majority of overall software developers. Everyone is a PHP developer these days, it seems.

Perhaps you're right though (having just read your second paragraph).