Top Paying Technologies and Programming Languages in 2017

In case you missed it, Stack Overflow released the 2017 Developer survey results and as always there are really interesting information there.

I wanted to take a moment and point out some parts of it that is about the “Top Paying Technologies” and in case you are looking to study something in your free time, you can pick from that list as some of them are stuff that are relatively newer technologies and trending.

The Top Paying Technologies are categorized into 5, and seems like, in US, UK, Germany, France and Worldwide, different things are on the top of the list.

United States: Go, Scala and Objective-C are the top 3.

Worldwide: Clojure, Rust and Elixir are the top 3.

United Kingdom: TypeScript, Ruby and C# are the top 3.

Germany: Java, Python, TypeScript are the top 3.

France: Python, C++ and JavaScript are the top 3.

The following are the complete list in each region taken from the Stack Overflow website:

United States Top Paying Technologies:

*Median of 3,603 responses —Picture taken from Stack Overflow*

Worldwide Top Paying Technologies:

*Median of 12,128 responses —Picture taken from Stack Overflow*

United Kingdom Top Paying Technologies:

*Median of 1,398 responses —Picture taken from Stack Overflow*

Germany Top Paying Technologies:

*Median of 958 responses —Picture taken from Stack Overflow*

France Top Paying Technologies:

*Median of 450 response — sPicture taken from Stack Overflow*

Globally, developers who use Clojure in their jobs have the highest average salary at $72,000. In the U.S., developers who use Go as well as developers who use Scala are highest paid with an average salary of $110,000. In the UK, it’s TypeScript at $53,763, while in Germany, it’s Java at the same. Finally, in France, it’s Python at $42,151.

Hope this helps you to pick the next thing to learn based on where you live!