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Top highest paying jobs in IT

The computer science and information technology field is always known for its high paying jobs. There are a lot of reasons that you should work in an IT industry. It is one of the most active and evolving field which gives you chance to make good money.

Let’s talk about the top 25 technologies which provide the most paying jobs according to the Stack overflow’s developer’s survey.

Top paying technologies (globally)

This list consists of the technologies which provide most paying jobs globally.

1. F#
2. Ocaml
3. Clojure
4. Groovy
5. Perl
6. Rust
7. Erlang
8. Scala
9. Go
10. Ruby
11. Bash/Shell
12. CoffeeScript
13. Haskell
14. Julia
15. TypeScript
16. C#
17. Objective-C
18. R
19. Swift
20. Lua
21. Python
22. SQL
23. JavaScript
24. HTML
25. CSS

You can see the following screenshots by StackOverflow survey.

And the last two are HTML and CSS respectively paying 54,000$ and 53,000$.

Top paying technologies in USA

This list consists of the technologies which provide most paying jobs only in USA:

Highest paying salary by developer’s type (globally)

IT sector is very vast area of functioning. These IT jobs not only provide a stable career with excellent pay, they are often available to people who are just graduated in computer science and information technology field.

There are a lot of types of developers in IT sector. Here, we list only the developer’s types who are getting highest salary globally (in decreasing order):

1. Engineering manager
2. DevOps specialist
3. Data scientist or machine learning specialist
4. Data or business analyst
5. Embedded applications or devices developer
6. Full-stack developer
7. Desktop or enterprise applications developer
8. Back-end developer
9. System administrator
10. QA or test developer
11. Database administrator
12. Front-end developer
13. Designer
14. Educator or academic researcher
15. Mobile developer
16. Game or graphics developer

Highest paying salary by developer’s type in USA

This is the list of developer’s types who are getting highest salary in USA (in decreasing order):

1. Engineering manager
2. DevOps specialist
3. Back-end developer
4. Data scientist or machine learning specialist
5. Mobile developer
6. Desktop or enterprise applications developer
7. Full-stack developer
8. Embedded applications or devices developer
9. Front-end developer
10. System administrator
11. Data or business analyst
12. Database administrator
13. Game or graphics developer
14. Educator or academic researcher
15. Designer
16. QA or test developer

Top most popular development jobs

The following list contains the most popular development jobs in IT industry.

1. Back-end developer
2. Full-stack developer
3. Front-end developer
4. Mobile developer
5. Desktop or enterprise applications developer
6. Database administrator
7. Designer
8. System administrator
9. DevOps specialist
10. Data or business analyst
11. Data scientist or machine learning specialist
12. QA or test developer
13. Engineering manager
14. Embedded applications or devices developer
15. Game or graphics developer
16. Product manager
17. Educator or academic researcher
18. C-suite executive (CEO, CTO, etc.)
19. Marketing or sales professional

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