Hiring IT professionals is easy wherever you go. Hell even Japan and Korea have a highway for IT professional visa application. In general "hiring special knowledge worker X from abroad" is always easy, as a employer.

The hard situation is "a person with knowledge X moving to country Y and applying for work", when they have to apply for work no different than locals yet the work visa requirement attached to the resume turns employers away because it's a damn hassle.

You simply can't grasp that from the employer side