The employment picture has been gloomy in various industry sectors in recent years, but the Internet has been a bright spot, having added 1.2 million jobs to the economy over the past decade. The number of online shoppers has grown to where Internet advertising is currently a 20 billion dollar a year industry.
eCommerce accounts for roughly half of these jobs, which is good news for software applications developers whose employment totals are expected to increase by 25% or more over the next ten years.