Years ago I got the advice to not go into software development for science. The reasoning was that those companies are mostly run by people with PhDs who took 6 years to get their degree, and getting paid a pittance. These people find it hard to believe that a non-PhD software developer should be paid significantly more than a PhD.

I don't know if it's true, but when I see "Lots of data, but a lack of computer nerds to work on it." ... I read it as saying there's no money to hire those computer nerds.

The same person advised me that the software developers who go into science often do so for the love of the topic, and willing to be paid less. I don't think I can get that interested in bioinformatics.