Comment by bombcar

I suspect it's a result of the bucket being wider and larger - many many people have latched onto the idea that "software" is the way to make lots of money, so people are signing up to learn it.

In the past CS (if there even was a CS degree/course offered) would me mainly populated by "the nerds" who were really into it, money be damned.

Arguably this could be why the educational requirements around other well-known lucrative positions became so difficult.