In reply to djsteveb.

I'm a "BuddyPress developer", as well as quite a bunch of other people.
The problem is that BP is not that big market, it's not that easy to be 100% focused on BP-related projects only. So such people are either working with WP (mainly) and BP (when something - seldom - appear), or have own business around WP (and sometimes) BP. And such people are marketing WP skills more, I guess.