The most profitable programming languages: how to earn a programmer

Quartz news resource presented its processing of large-scale research of the labor market in the United States, choosing work for programmers from there. They were interested to find out which programming languages ​​are currently listed on the market - that is, which programmer is earning more. The histogram presents sorted data on the average salary in the industry, depending on the PL (salaries according to American tradition are shown for the year). There is nothing surprising that in the trend there are languages ​​related primarily to web development and mobile applications.



If you want to make a mess in discussions, try asking programmers which is their favorite (or even better, which is the best) programming language. But the most popular languages ​​do not always bring you the greatest income, and to choose a language for reasons of obtaining the highest income is also hardly a good strategy. For example, according to another study , the first place in the most frequent use is shared by Java and JavaScript, followed by PHP (which is not on the list of the most profitable). Over time, the popularity of languages ​​is changing quite quickly, but the work of the programmer should still be built around algorithms and an understanding of how systems work, and not around a specific language.
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As the author accurately noted the most popular answer to the question “which language is better to learn with reference to the future?”, We need to learn several languages ​​in order to discern programming itself — language, work with data, and so on. If you learn only one language, you limit yourself and your potential. So, perhaps you should not choose a language based only on the size of the salary. It is interesting to note that in the United States, according to the results of this study , Python became the most popular language for studying in universities.