[LRUG] OT: Programming services for businesses in mid-sized towns

[Sleepyfox]

This looks like a repost, can anyone confirm?

On 22 June 2016 at 02:21, gvim <gvimrc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Given that programming is a skill which is relevant to businesses of any
> size regardless of location why is it that programming vacancies are almost
> exclusively concentrated in the major cities? What do mid-sized business in,
> say, Ipswich do when they need a programmer?
>
> I ask because I plan to leave London in the next few years and live more in
> a more rural area but the prospects of finding work look bleak unless you're
> prepared to commute to the nearest city.
>
> This phenomenon also extends to the choice of programming language.
> According to job postings by title at www.indeed.co.uk once you look outside
> London the relative dominance of Java, PHP and JS is much more pronounced.
>
> gvim
>
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