Struggling To Find A Solid Job In IT In 2026 ▀ Here Is A Complete List Of Reasons Why It Is Happening

One of my [previous notes] regarding modern web trends clearly resonated in your email replies,
so I’ve decided to drop an even more pressing topic on you.

Struggling to find a solid job in IT? Read on for a comprehensive list of the main reasons why.
So, you’re on the IT job market and you can’t find a solid role; well, that’s just par for the course in 2026.
Naturally, we’re taking it as read that you have genuine skills and can actually do what you’ve listed on your CV.
And of course I won’t bother mentioning the obvious, such as competition from other candidates.

Right, here are the most crucial points to grasp.

Previously, it was good enough to just do the job and know your stuff, but that’s no longer the case
In most cases, your CV is binned by dumb AI scripts before a human HR even sees it
The current reality is quite harsh: if you don’t match the employer’s tech stack perfectly,
or even miss it by a miserable 2% [they won’t consider you at all]
Over 35? You’re practically out of the market. That’s their dumb logic and I’ve no idea how they come up with such nonsense.
I have a few acquaintances in HR, and I’ve been told some interesting stories about them dumping 40-year-old coders
with loads of pre-AI experience in favour of Gen Z kids, most of whom didn’t even turn up for work for the most daft reasons.
The vacancy simply doesn’t exist. HR is just going through the motions,
pretending the company is still actively hiring just to keep the internal reports looking rosy
Hoarding potential candidates for future use. They’re just stockpiling databases for themselves
or for a third-party agency, often for a hefty fee
There are also vacancies advertised ten times over, much like the same flat being listed by ten different estate agents.
[This means the actual market is likely much smaller than you think, or smaller than you’ve been led to believe]
Interviews for the sake of interviews [people are pretending to be busy with a selection process]
Permanent vacancies posted for years without any movement [they’re just entirely non-existent]
Some interviews are arranged not to assess you or measure your actual skills, but to showcase the interviewer
[a quite typical situation, just plain old narcissism]
Remember that in most cases, the final decision on giving you the job isn’t made by the head of the department
[but by the son/daughter of a high-ranking executive who only turns up to draw a salary without
any actual responsibilities and most likely he/she just didn’t like you]

So, as you can see, in most cases this isn’t about technical knowledge,
but about all the rubbish mentioned above. A right load of nonsense, eh?

All right then, here is my personal prediction of what will happen in the upcoming future:

AI companies will accumulate corporate subscribers and build up a massive client base [they’re already doing it]
Once the number of corporate subscribers surpasses a certain threshold, the cost of AI tokens will skyrocket
[this will surely happen, because the AI monopolists will have to pay for cutting-edge, expensive 1nm chips and memory modules]
All these corporate clients on a subscription will gladly pay triple the price compared to what they’d pay real human workers
[backed up by the enthusiastic feedback of not-so-bright project managers reporting a tremendous increase in efficiency thanks to AI]
After a while, some companies will realise that it’s cheaper to keep real human workers than to keep feeding the AI companies
[especially when the subscription price is constantly being hiked up].
The main problem is that by that time, most real coders will have left the industry, lost interest, or simply died.

Of course, this isn’t a 100% guaranteed scenario, but it’s certainly plausible [with a high degree of probability].

Ok, right, now you have a full, detailed and comprehensive picture of what’s actually going on.