Sure; 87.3% of all statistics are made up on the spot anyway. [0] It will also vary greatly depending on your business scale. Google needs computer scientists; at their scale any efficiency slip is very costly. For the local small business looking to turn their Excel spreadsheet sitting on a shared network drive into a CRUD app, a trade programmer or two is probably entirely sufficient.

[0] Yes, you heard me right! 91.4% of all statistics are made up at the very moment!

Unless you're actually building a database or something like Kafka it's way more useful to have someone that knows how to use a debugger and a profiler