Technology
Building software, networks and the systems behind them.
Applied AI systems
AI Prompt Engineer
A job title that may not exist in five years, folded into others that will.
$90k-$180k
Reporting & analytics engineering
BI Developer
Building the dashboard the whole company argues about.
$80k-$140k
Mechanical, civil & architectural
CAD Drafter
Turning an engineer's sketch into something that can be built.
$45k-$80k
AWS, Azure & GCP infrastructure
Cloud Engineer
Building infrastructure that exists only as code.
$95k-$170k
Security operations
Cybersecurity Analyst
Watching for the one alert out of ten thousand that matters.
$70k-$150k
Business intelligence
Data Analyst
Turning messy spreadsheets into decisions.
$60k-$120k
Pipelines & data platforms
Data Engineer
Everyone wants the dashboard; somebody has to build the plumbing.
$95k-$180k
Analytics & machine learning
Data Scientist
Most of the job is cleaning data nobody documented.
$85k-$170k
Enterprise data systems
Database Administrator
Guarding the one thing a company truly cannot lose.
$75k-$140k
Cloud & platform
DevOps Engineer
On call for everything you did not personally break.
$95k-$180k
Firmware & hardware integration
Embedded Systems Engineer
Software where you cannot just restart the server.
$95k-$165k
Studio & indie
Game Developer
The most competitive job in software, for less money than software.
$65k-$130k
Technology operations leadership
IT Manager
You stop fixing things and start being responsible for whether they get fixed.
$95k-$160k
Helpdesk & sysadmin
IT Support Specialist
The person everyone calls when nothing works.
$40k-$85k
Applied AI systems
Machine Learning Engineer
Mostly data plumbing, occasionally the model.
$120k-$220k
iOS & Android
Mobile App Developer
Two platforms, two ecosystems, and a review process you do not control.
$85k-$160k
Infrastructure
Network Administrator
Nobody notices you until the internet stops.
$60k-$120k
Offensive security
Penetration Tester
Paid to break in, and then to write it all down.
$85k-$160k
Software product
Product Manager
Responsible for the outcome, in charge of nobody.
$95k-$190k
Software quality assurance
QA Tester
Getting paid to find what everyone else missed.
$45k-$100k
CRM platform administration
Salesforce Administrator
One vendor certification, and a job market that specifically wants it.
$65k-$120k
Agile delivery
Scrum Master
A two-day certification, and a market full of people who have it.
$75k-$130k
Search & organic growth
SEO Specialist
Building traffic that compounds instead of traffic you rent.
$50k-$110k
Production reliability
Site Reliability Engineer
Engineering discipline applied to the question of whether it stays up.
$120k-$210k
Product & web
Software Engineer
Building the thing, then fixing the thing.
$80k-$220k
Enterprise & cloud architecture
Solutions Architect
Half technical design, half convincing people it will work.
$130k-$210k
Servers & identity
Systems Administrator
Keeping the lights on for systems nobody thinks about.
$65k-$120k
Software & SaaS support
Technical Support Engineer
Help desk for a product, at a software company salary.
$65k-$120k
Product design
UX Designer
Arguing for the user in rooms where nobody else will.
$70k-$150k
Front-end & full-stack
Web Developer
Making the website work on the browser you forgot existed.
$55k-$130k