There has never been a better time to be a software developer. The software industry is booming and believe it or not, there aren’t enough good software developers in the world. The salaries of software developers are still on the rise.
Java, C, C++ and SQL have been the industry leaders for the past decade or so and are still the most demanding programming languages in the world. Here is a list of Top Programming Languages of 2018.
Here is a list of programming languages based on number of available jobs on Indeed.
| Language | No. of jobs |
| C | 119,368 |
| SQL | 89,350 |
| Java | 57,836 |
| Python | 45,116 |
| JavaScript | 35,153 |
| C++ | 30,214 |
| C# | 25,205 |
| Objective-C | 17,676 |
| Ruby | 17,237 |
| PHP | 13,290 |
Here is a list of some of the top jobs and corresponding salaries available on Indeed.com.
| Role | Salary (in USD) |
| Sr. Software Engineer | 114,527 |
| Full Stack Developer | 110,560 |
| Front End Developer | 102,469 |
| Java Developer | 102,160 |
| Software Engineer | 96,879 |
| Developer | 91,854 |
| .NET Developer | 88,719 |
| Application Developer | 84,562 |
| Web Developer | 77,768 |
Among the job trends, Machine Learning is on the rise. According to LinkedIn job trends (see below chart), the jobs in machine learning have increased 9.8x in 2017 and are expected to grow at an even faster pace in 2018.
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Other tech jobs on the rise are data scientist, big data developer, full stack engineer, Unity developer, and full stack developer.
Believe it or not, software development isn’t the only field in which jobs are being created. Cyber security is one of the fields that may require more experts than any other field. There is going to be a demand for over a million cyber security experts in the USA alone by 2020. Actually, Cyber Security brings one of biggest opportunities for developers. As a software developer or IT professional, it is important to understand the security threats and industry demand. Most of the hackers find holes in website securities and get access to the servers and data via web. If you want to learn what the major threats are and how you can fix them, read my article, How To Build Secure Websites.
Blockchain is another area that has grown in 2017. As a matter of fact, more than 50% of large corporations are thinking about building blockchain-based products. Here is a flow chart that shows if
You Need A Blockchain for your products.
Summary
In this article, we saw the top trending jobs for software developers.