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Computing Careers 2026 — source bibliography and gap register

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Open data from Computing Careers 2026, published by Grade One. Licensed CC BY 4.0. See LICENCE.txt.

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What this is

File Rows What it holds
sources.csv / .json 200 Every source the book used, graded, dated, with what it cannot tell you
gaps.csv / .json 138 Every question the book could not answer at the grade it requires

sources.csv carries, for each source: the grade it earns under the book's five-grade hierarchy, the date it was published, the date it was read, a locator or a stated reason there is none, the figure it supports, and its caveat. 75 of the 200 are grade 1.

gaps.csv carries, for each gap: the role and chapter it belongs to, what is missing, why, and whether it is closeable — meaning a published source exists and nobody has compiled it. 22 are closeable. Of the 138, 88 come from the career profiles and 50 are declared by the chapters themselves.

The grades

Grades run 1 to 5, best first.

Grade What it means
1 A primary source. Somebody with the power to compel the answer
2 A structured survey that publishes its method
3 A verified transaction. Money that actually changed hands
4 An aggregator. A website republishing what people typed in
5 Somebody selling you something

Why the gap register is published

Because a list of what nobody measures is more useful to a researcher than another list of what somebody measured. Every entry marked closeable means a published source exists and has not been compiled. Those are the cheap ones.

Using it

Copy it, republish it, adapt it, build on it, sell something built on it. The only condition is credit:

Source bibliography and gap register, Computing Careers 2026, Grade One, edition 1.0.0.

Corrections are wanted. If a grade is wrong, a source has moved, or a gap has been closed by something published since, write to corrections@gradeone.press. Corrections that arrive with a source and a date go into the next edition, with credit, unless you would rather not be named.

Provenance

This directory is generated, not written. Every count above is recomputed by scripts/package.py --public in the book's build from the files beside it, so a number here cannot drift from the data it describes. Do not edit it by hand; re-run the build.

Third-party material inside these files is credited where it comes from. O*NET, published by the United States Department of Labor, and ESCO, published by the European Commission, are used under CC BY 4.0. Neither body has reviewed or endorsed this book.

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Open data on tech and computing careers. Includes a mapping of 452 software and IT job titles, a graded bibliography, and a register of exactly what the tech labor market fails to measure.

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