The 10 Best Tech Careers In 2015
No. 10: Sales Engineer: $91,318
No. 9: Mobile Developer: $79,810
Job Score: 4.2
Number of Job Openings: 4,651
Average Base Salary: $79,810
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.3
A mobile developer writes apps for mobile devices. Every business today is looking to let its workers and customers access apps on smartphones and tablets. These folks make that happen.
Yahoo is looking for mobile developers. It has an entire mobile team in New York.
No. 8: IT Project Manager, $103,710
Job Score: 4.3
Number of Job Openings: 5,700
Average Base Salary: $103,710
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.2
An IT project manager runs technology projects at an enterprise or tech company. As technology becomes more central to every business, IT roles like these have grown in respect, salary and demand.
ESPN, one of the 50 Best Places to Work, according to Glassdoor, has pages of tech-related project manager positions available.
No. 7: Network Engineer: $87,518
Job Score: 4.3
Number of Job Openings: 14,092
Average Base Salary: $87,518
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.2
A network engineer designs, builds, and maintains corporate networks.
Network equipment maker Cisco has hundreds of openings for network engineers and says that in 2015, the world will need 1.2 million network specialists worldwide.
No: 6: QA Engineer: $77,499
Job Score: 4.3
Number of Job Openings: 26,383
Average Base Salary: $77,499
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.2
A quality assurance (QA) engineer (sometimes called a "test" engineer), tests technology to make sure it works as it is supposed to before it is released to customers.
No. 5: Solutions Architect, $121,657
Job Score: 4.4
Number of Job Openings: 3,982
Average Base Salary: $121,657
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.4
A solutions architect designs complicated tech projects like a big new software application, or the rollout of a new corporate IT system.
Mastercard, named one of the best places to work for IT professionals by Computerworld, has dozens of job openings for technology architects.
No. 4: Data Scientist, $104,476
Job Score: 4.4
Number of Job Openings: 3,449
Average Base Salary: $104,476
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.8
A data scientist is someone who works with a company's stockpile of data –otherwise known as big data – to come up with business insights.
All the hot tech companies, tons of startups and and most of the big corporations are looking for data scientists right now. Facebook, for instance, has 15 open jobs.
No. 3: Product Manager, $113,363
Job Score: 4.5
Number of Job Openings: 10,294
Average Base Salary: $113,363
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.3
A product manager helps a company create new products and figures out how to market and sell them.
Microsoft has over 500 open positions involving the "product manager" role.
No. 2: Database Administrator, $97,835
Job Score: 4.5
Number of Job Openings: 9,790
Average Base Salary: $97,835
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.4
A database administrator runs a company's database, which is typically one of the most important apps a company uses.
Oracle, a company best known for its database software, has over 2,000 job listings that reference a database administrator.
No. 1: Software Engineer, $98,074
Job Score: 4.6
Number of Job Openings: 104,828
Average Base Salary: $98,074
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.3
A software engineer designs and writes software applications. Software rules the world: it runs your company, your car, your home entertainment system, your city ...
Everybody is hiring software engineers, even cloud company Salesforce.com, whose mascot is a "no software" button.
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