According to Joubert, the GMT+2 time zone is home to roughly five million developers, of which 700,000 are based in Africa. “The vast majority want to work remotely, yet it remains a generally untapped pool of talent for international companies – although some, like Amazon and Microsoft, are catching on.”
The search for top tech talent has gone global and the world’s biggest tech companies know that there are good developers within this time zone, the tech expert said. “Demand for software developers is soaring across the US, because most industries rely on software for survival. At least 26 African countries list English as one of their official languages. English proficiency is particularly strong in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa, where it is widely used as a business language, and as a common language in multilingual communities. This reduces language barriers and makes it easier for teams that stretch across Europe, Asia, the Americas and Africa to communicate.
OfferZen and Codehesion said that there are several in-demand fields of study that favour prospective software developers, including:B Information Systems and Information Technology that candidates do not necessarily need a tertiary degree to land a job as a software developer.