I read the OP in a different way. In IT - as in pretty much every other field - there are many more low-level jobs than high-level ones. It's also much easier,

I read the OP in a different way. In IT - as in pretty much every other field - there are many more low-level jobs than high-level ones. It's also much easier, and much less risky from a strategic point of view, to outsource the low-level ones than the high-level ones, so, most of those which were outsourced were the low-level jobs; we're talking about hundreds of thousands of jobs (millions?) here. Many of those low-level jobs can be automated, while the high-level ones can't. As the cost of even low-level outsourced jobs goes up, and the cost of automation goes down, it's normal that lots of the most automated jobs get cut. Jobs of which India has a very high relative proportion, not because there aren't high-level programmers there, but because India has the strongest IT outsourcing industry in the World.