According to a report by Information Week, it is. It looks like the unemployment rate for IT professionals is 3.7%. which is close to the lowest rate reached at the end of 2001. Are things looking better for us? I think so. And altough things still look a little murky, it looks like the situation brightened quite a bit from a year or two ago. Read the whole report here. Don’t go jumping in joy, yet. The rate is so low mainly because IT professionals started leaving the field. Nonetheles, companies are starting to hire.