Monday, January 27, 2020

Highest-Paid in-demand software engineers

Most demand?
As far as the demand is concerned obviously Software developers (who actually develop in product-based companies)are high in demand followed by software testers.
A recent survey by Stack Overflow suggested those who can program in JavaScript are the highest in demand followed by App developers like iOS and Android.
As the technology changes demand software developers shifts so none of these may be valid in the long term.
Most Salaries?
Again developers, but who can actually help in building stuff. For this, learning languages might be of little to no use unless and until you are well versed with Algorithms and data structures and can program well.
Again what I read on stack Overflow
There are just 3% of total programmers who can program in R and Go so definitely they would be having the higher pay scale but as I said it all comes down to your familiarity with Algorithms and data structures because languages can be learned in less than six weeks.
Actually, if you are good enough you will be valued and paid accordingly in the tech industry no matter which field or type you are. Period

The in-demand types of engineers and salaries are those that:
  1. Have good enough communication skills to extract a customer's problem, articulate it, and explain a solution or better yet the advantages of their solution.
  2. Can inspire/motivate other software engineers to work on that solution.
  3. know enough about programming and architecture to make sure their solution is doable and make sure no one is taking advantage of you and maybe make the prototype or minimal viable product.
You will normally find their engineers as lead developers, product owners, to all the way up to CTOs and business owners. The more value you generate (cost of the problem you are solving x the number of people that have that problem) the more you can get paid.

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