As others have said, web development is hot right now. In my experience, it's hard to find people willing to build customized back-end stuff. It's probably too

As others have said, web development is hot right now. In my experience, it's hard to find people willing to build customized back-end stuff. It's probably too expensive, and companies just buy whatever ready-made solutions that kind-of cover their needs. (think ERP, CRM's etc) The demand for web-devs might be artificially high right now, as most normal people have not yet discovered that they do not really need a programmer to build their website. I think Squarespace / Wix / WP etc, maybe with a custom design, should cover most websites. I've been doing back-end web programming as a freelancer for a few months, but it's really hard to find good clients, so I'm moving to something else.