The junior software market really has deteriorated, but offshoring cannot explain it alone: the timing does not work. What BLS payrolls, JOLTS flows and ONS vacancies actually show, why a frozen hiring market hurts entrants most, where offshoring genuinely does take the training-ground tasks, and what a junior or aspiring developer should do about it.
What Outsourcing to India Actually Looks Like in 2026
The stereotype is twenty years out of date. What the industry now consists of, why global capability centres are the real story, how NASSCOM and the Economic Survey disagree on the numbers and why that matters, the tier-2 city shift, why Indian firms themselves outsource to the Philippines, and how to verify a vendor using public Indian company records.