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Wouldn't this be more a sign of just the opposite, then? People have jobs and aren't searching for new ones?
There could be a variety of reasons: fiscal cliff concerns, startup series A crunch, etc. My guess is that the FB IPO debacle had a huge impact on funding in Silicon Valley, which probably killed a lot of jobs. Whether or not that's a big deal going forward I don't know.
The same trend occurs for designers: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=web+design%2C+graphic+desi...
But seriously, this is relative to other job postings, so you can't say it is necessarily a crash, it could just be that the diversity of job types is increasing, or other areas of the job market are growing faster than these particular ones.
I have seen a lot of freelancers on Twitter tweeting that they have availability. So, another potentially interesting data point.
This is a chart of searches for jobs, not listings of available jobs, right? And it's at the top around 2008-2009 which was just around the time of the latest financial crisis? Wouldn't this be more a sign of just the opposite, then? People have jobs and aren't searching for new ones?
Sounds like they're crawling sites like Monster.com and counting keywords.