There does seem to be some hollowing out of the bottom end of IT work. There were people in 2002 making decent livings doing basic PC repair and low end web dev (frontpage etc).
That's been replaced by basic mobile repair shops and low end app dev here. Friend of mine who used to do PC repair runs a little mall kiosk selling phones, accessories, repairing screens and updating roms. He already expanded to 5 F/T employees and another kiosk.
Harder to do that now.