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Since they appear to search some set of available online job listing sites, its clearly a change in the mix of listings at those sites -- but it doesn't even necessarily mean a change in relative number of tech jobs to other jobs available (much less a tech crash). Simply a burst in non-tech jobs being more widely posted to different job sites (or new job sites that are non-tech oriented being added to indeed.com's database) would produce this effect.

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In fact there's a corresponding uptick in "health" jobs: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=software%2C+health&l=

Also, tax. Is it seasonality? Is it a bigger trend in expansion of non-tech jobs? Is it more non-tech jobs getting posted more widely on job listing sites? Is it indeed.com indexing more sites that favor non-tech jobs? Is it something else? Is it a combination of some of these?

Really hard to tell.

Certainly not a strong basis for suspecting a tech collapse of any sort.

Also "work from home". I'm guessing something flooded the job boards in the last month with a single term (think something spammy!), combined with a seasonal downturn .

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