The article reports on the shortage of technical professionals in the U.S. Most of the employers in the information technology (IT) have the urgent need to hire large numbers for projects in IT. The country leads the world in the number of people with professional certification, however, a decrease in the number has been noted compared to the number in the previous year. Statistics have shown that there are not enough programmers in the country, while other countries have high levels of certification in the same profession.