IT jobs healthy, study says

This article quotes a report stating that there are more IT jobs now than there were 6 years ago during the "Dot Com" peak.

Maybe it is just me, or maybe they are right and it is just the way I am perceiving the market, but finding a job six years ago seemed a lot easer than it is now. I wonder if someone has looked to see if the growth in the IT job market has been outpaced by the number of new workers in IT over the past 6 years?