Also manufacturing. If you know how to code and real engineering skills like circuits, CAD, mechanical design, etc you will land a decent manufacturing role.
That said, why hire a SWE when most MechE programs have been requiring CS courses as well for over a decade now.
Your citations rely on JOLTS reporting on the manufacturing sector. The jolts report also states for the occupation of Mechanical Engineering a nearly 10% growth rate for the next decade. This is 3 times the average.
Manufacturing sector includes a significant minority of all mechanical engineers, but more to the point the sector includes nearly all jobs involved in manufacturing durable and nondurable goods. This includes machinists and technicians and assembly workers.
The only industries that saw severe layoffs were Financial Services and Information/Software.