Top 5 In-Demand Tech Jobs For 2024 (+ How To Land A Job In Each!)

Are you thinking of starting a career in tech but not sure which path to take? Or maybe you’re already working in tech but are thinking of changing roles?

Well, good news!

You can either:

Take our tech career path quiz and find the best tech role for you and get a personalized step-by-step roadmap to learn the skills and land the job, or
Keep reading and learn about the top 5 in-demand tech jobs for 2024 that we think will give you a great career over the next 10 years and beyond

Come on… Just tell me the list!

You don’t mess around, do you? Alright then, I guess we’ll give the people what they want.

Here's a quick summary of our picks of top in-demand tech jobs for 2024:

Software Developer is one of the easiest entry-level roles to get into, it gives you a great foundation to move into other areas, and you can earn a good salary
Data Roles can pay very well and is one of the most versatile roles since companies across all industries need people to help them understand their numbers
Cyber Security is the highest demand role right now on our list purely by # of jobs available and it’s pretty cool to get paid to hack systems!
Machine Learning Engineer is probably the hardest to land a job in but it offers a very high average salary, and the growth over the next few years is going to be insane… get in now
Cloud Engineering is probably the least interesting role on the list (subjective of course) but it currently pays the most and has the largest growth of any industry on this list. It’s not going away anytime soon… you could have a nice career in this space

Why keep reading?

Unlike all the other posts out there that just list off a bunch of jobs and nothing else, we’re going to tell you exactly WHY these are the best 5 options and how to actually get hired in each role.

Plus… we’re also going to tell you our “Top Tech Job To Watch for 2025” 👀… but you’ll have to read to the end to find out (yes, you can just scroll to the bottom but don’t ruin our fun ok?!).

How did we come up with these 5 roles? Why not 15 or 20?

Last year I sat down with our resident trend-spotting futurist, Andrei Neagoie to ask him his thoughts on where tech was going in 2023.

The post was quite popular so we decided to update it for 2024.

The reason that we chose to only give you the top 5, is because your time is valuable. That, and when you have too many options, it just gets overwhelming and you don't choose. So instead, we want to give you the 5 best so you can pick one, take action, and get hired ASAP.

A quick note before the selection criteria

If you’re not sure exactly what you want to do but just want to land a job in tech as quickly as possible, check out our guide to entry level tech jobs
If you already have a strong curiosity in a field we haven’t listed, pick that (ex: product design)

Why?

Because the best career for you is the one that you’re actually going to stick around long enough to learn the skills needed to land a job.

Let’s be honest, no one naturally has a “passion” for any tech job (or anything at all really). You develop passion for something by getting good at it. Getting good requires hard work and time.

If you’re willing to work hard and put in the time, pick one of the 5 tech careers below and you will be rewarded!

Why listen to Andrei?

Andrei has been in the tech industry for many years as a Software Developer but also as an instructor teaching in-demand skills to over 1,000,000 students around the world.

He also writes two extremely popular monthly newsletters (read by 1,000s of tech professionals every month) so you know he's constantly staying on top of the trends.

Let's be clear though... Andrei didn't just pick his top tech careers at random. In fact, he provided us with his 5 key selection criteria.

The selection criteria for deciding the top tech career opportunities

It must be a highly in-demand skill that will allow you to get paid a high salary and pick which company you want to work for if you have the right skills
It must be growing faster than the number of skilled workers so that the job market doesn’t get saturated
It must be international and needed all around the world
It must be a skill that anyone can afford to learn without needing to spend $10,000 - $100,000 going to school or a bootcamp (screw that!)
It must be a skill useful many years into the future

That last point is a tricky one because everyone thinks they have an idea of what the future will hold, but let’s be honest… that is rarely the case.

And so where possible, we’ve looked at current and past growth, as well as labor or industry valuation projections for the next 5-10 years to give us a solid basis on these decisions.

We don’t always get it right, but we have a pretty high success rate, when using this criteria.

For example:

In the 2023 edition of this guide, we had the "Blockchain developer" role as a recommendation, but for 2024 we're replacing that with "Cloud Engineer".

Why is this?

Well, demand for Cloud Engineering continues to skyrocket, whereas interest in Blockchain Development has died off.

To be clear, we’re not calling the death of the web3/blockchain space, and we still teach people how to become Blockchain Developers.

It's just that there aren't as many opportunities and the outlook isn't totally clear, while the Cloud Engineering industry is set to grow to $1.5 Trillion by 2030, so it’s growing at an insane pace. (We probably should have added it last year).

So yeah. Blockchain Developer is removed from this list for 2024.

Everyone makes mistakes but thankfully we didn’t change our company name like they Meta did! Long live the metaverse!

Again… if you have some massive interest in Web3 / Blockchain, then go for it. Just know it’ll be a tougher road to landing a job than these other options and who knows what your career might hold 3-5-10 years from now.

Either way, we’d still recommend getting a strong base as a Software Developer first. Then you can niche down into Blockchain related work with the safety net of knowing you can always fall back on getting web or mobile dev roles if Blockchain doesn’t work out.

Important: Although we’re giving tips and paths to follow here, there is no magic bullet.

As I briefly said before, if you want to be successful and land one of these careers, then you'll have to work hard for it. No course or book or bootcamp can help you 100% accomplish what you want, without any effort from you.

If it were that easy, everyone would be doing it. But we can give you the best path and exact steps to take, but the rest is all up to your determination and effort.

Since I know we’re going to get these questions, let’s tackle a couple of the elephants in the room.

What about all these tech layoffs? Is the industry dead? Should I just be a plumber instead?

Plumbing is a great career option… we’re always going to need plumbers. It doesn’t personally excite me but hey… you do you!

Ok, seriously though, why are we recommending tech jobs when it’s all doom and gloom in the news?

Here’s the thing - a lot of the news reports around these tech layoffs are fear mongering to get clicks and the information is presented in a way that makes it much worse than it seems.

Aakash Gupta has a great thread on this over on Twitter, but here’s the mile high view…

1) Layoffs are not always what they seem in tech

In tech it can happen when a department is no longer needed and people are moved into other departments.

This makes it look like a large group of people lost their job when a department closes, but the reality is, they often still work at the company, just in new areas.

2) People move around in tech all the time

Of those people who got laid off last year, 79% of them were back working in another company within 90 days.

How did they get hired so fast?

Developers and engineers are still in demand! Add in the fact that bouncing between companies is actually incredibly common in the tech world, and you’ll see it’s not as scary as it might seem.

Often you will work in one company, and then either be promoted, or more to another company to take a senior position, with some people moving multiple times in 3-5 years.

So yeah. Think of it less like a factory being shut down and the end of an industry. It’s more like a department in one company shifting staff, and next door picking them up asap while they’re free.

3) You can get let go from any job - especially if you’re under performing

Retail has around a 40% turnover, of people either leaving or being fired, which admittedly, is higher than average, but the fact remains the same - you can be fired from any job if you’re not doing it to a high enough standard.

The thing is, when you see companies like Amazon or Google laying off thousands of people, you need to understand the scale that they are operating in.

For example:

Amazon has over 1.5 million employees, so at 27,000, that's around 1.8% of their total workforce - way lower then the averages for other companies in other industries.

Also, these current layoffs that you're seeing right now are way less than last year, with Amazon only laying off 900 people this year.

4) The initial big layoffs were due to a number of issues at once

Without getting too deep into the weeds here, the whole COVID pandemic situation caused a lot of big tech companies to over hire new staff.

It also allowed many other small to mid-sized tech companies to survive longer than they should have because they were able to raise so much money to keep running unprofitable businesses.

Once interest rates started shooting up and demand slowed down, the big companies realized they overhired and the unprofitable companies couldn’t raise money anymore.

We’re over simplifying here but 2021 and 2022 were way better than they should have been and 2023 was a bit of a reset.

There are always cycles. Go talk to people who lived through the dotcom crash… I bet very few could have ever imagined where we’ve ended up ~ 20-25 years later.

The worst of this cycle should be behind the industry now and things should be getting better in 2024 and 2025.

5) Companies that are not even tech focused, still need tech workers

The world is MUCH bigger than just tech companies. They do seem to get a lot of the attention in the news but think of the millions of companies out there around the world that aren’t the big 10 or 20 tech companies that dominate the news cycle.

All of those companies also need tech workers. Every company can benefit from the top 5 in-demand roles we list below.

So if you expand your thinking and look at the stats, there are actually still a lot of jobs out there.

6) Tech really isn’t as bad as the news makes out

As you can see, it’s really not as bad as the news would have you believe. Yes, it’s harder to land a job right now than it was in previous years but does that mean that all of a sudden no companies are going to need these roles anymore?

Of course not!

We should say, of course, that layoffs do suck, and we do feel bad for those people. To the point that we even wrote a guide on how to deal with layoffs + steps to make yourself recession proof.

However, the volume and severity of this isn't anywhere near as bad as you would be led to believe.

OK, but why bother, isn’t AI just going to do all these tech jobs within the next couple of years?

Another great question, and Andrei answers this at length here.

He also just published a free mini-course called How NOT to get replaced by AI in 2024 (which you can watch below).

Here’s the mile high overview though - no AI isn’t going to replace all the tech jobs.

However, the people who learn to use it effectively, are the ones that will become more efficient and more in-demand. They work faster, get higher output, and even make their own lives easier by utilizing those tools.

So no. You won’t lose your job to a robot (at least for now). But you might be at threat or struggle to get hired against those who can use AI to work better, smarter, faster.

That’s why we’ve started introducing a lot of new AI focused courses and updating our existing courses to not just teach you the essential foundations and fundamentals, but also the latest AI tools to keep you ahead of the curve.

Still with me? Good stuff. You’re going to do well, I can feel it. Let’s finally get into the top 5 in-demand tech jobs for 2024.

Don’t feel like reading? Check out Aldo’s video breakdown of these trending career options below instead!

#1. Software Developer

Average salary: $111,845
Current # of job postings in the US: 138,000+ according to postings on LinkedIn. The US Bureau of labor statistics predicts a 25% growth in jobs, rising to around 2,246,500 total software development jobs by 2032
Industry size and expected growth: $698.80 Billion in 2024, growing to $858.1 Billion by 2028

Software development is a massive industry and it’s a safe bet that this industry won’t be going away anytime soon. We are literally surrounded by software... websites, apps on your phone, your car, in your home ("Alexa, read this blog post to me").

And as we can see in our everyday lives, it's becoming more and more pronounced every year.

Pretty much every company in the world needs someone that has software development skills. And if they don't, they're probably not a business that will be around long.

Don’t believe me?

What if I told you that there are approximately 6.3 Billion smartphone owners across the world, and even more shockingly, 88% of the time that people use their phone, it's on an app! Not only that, but 49% of people open an app 11 or more times each day, while over 20% of Millennials open an app more than 50+ times each day.

Software and app development is here to stay. The robots and AI may take over eventually but it's not going to happen in the next few years. Even then, somebody has to program the robots right?!

Why become a Software Developer?

There are two other important reasons why Software Development is #1 on this list.

First, unlike in the past, where you had to know different programming languages to accomplish different tasks, you can now build anything on any platform with just the knowledge of one of the main foundational programming languages like JavaScript or Python.

Front-end, Back-end. It doesn't matter anymore. At this point, the only limit to what you can build with either of those languages is your imagination.

Second, knowing software development provides you with an incredible base and foundational technical knowledge. This allows you to easily pivot or expand your skills into so many different niches (blockchain, machine learning, AI) much more quickly.

You'll also be able to pick up any new technologies that will inevitably pop up in the coming years super quickly and not feel overwhelmed.

So as you can see, the software development and app space is huge, the tools are better than ever, and it provides you with a great foundation to future-proof your career.

High demand, highly paid, and it gives you the opportunity to branch off into other areas which we’ll talk about soon.

Not to mention, you have the opportunity to work on really cool projects and have the potential to have a huge impact. You can even find plenty of remote jobs too if that's your thing.

We could go on all day but just trust us. This is the #1 option to start your career in tech.

How do you get started as a Software Developer?

I’m biased but Andrei's courses are some of the top-rated courses online.

Honestly, just go Google around for reviews of Andrei and his courses and you'll see. People don't just like Andrei and his courses... They love him! (Probably in part because he’s constantly updating his courses so you’re never learning outdated topics).

He would recommend you take his full-stack web developer career path but really the two KEY courses you need to go from zero to mastery as a software developer are:

You can literally start from scratch with zero coding experience, follow these courses, and get hired.

In fact, Andrei's students have gone from waiting tables to making 6 figures with these exact same courses!

The craziest thing is that you can learn all of this for free. That's actually how Andrei initially learned as well many years ago.

He wanted to give back to the community and help those who couldn't afford coding bootcamps or University or even his own courses so he created a step-by-step guide using all free resources to learn to code on your own.

You just need to have enough determination to do it.

“Wait what? You’re telling me about free alternatives!?”

Yep!

There are many different ways to learn to code, so if this career sounds like a good option to you, do some research to find the best path for you. It may take a little longer or be slightly more difficult if you go the free route, but many people have done it.

Still not sure if you should learn to code? Well don't take it from me, read this article and if Cindy can't convince you, I don't know what will!

tl;dr: Software development is Andrei’s #1 pick for a future-proof career.

You don’t have to just stay there though. The beauty of Software Development is that once you learn to code, it’s so easy to move into other fast-growing industries.

Such as…

#2. Cyber Security Expert

Cyber Security is an incredibly interesting and in-demand industry.

Average salary: There are a number of different roles in Cybersecurity, so the average salary can vary. Analysts get around $99,400, while Penetration testers get around $119,895 per year
Current # of job postings in the US: As of February 2023, there were 755,743 Cyber Security job openings in the United States alone, with a predicted growth of new jobs becoming available of 32% by 2032
Industry size and expected growth: The global cybersecurity market size is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.3% from 2023 to 2030. This would take it from $226 Billion today, to $451.22 Billion in 2030

A 12% industry growth rate is not surprising with all the apps, sites, and tools that we use. We need to secure them!

Unfortunately hacking is big business costing individuals and companies billions of dollars a year. That's why companies are ramping up their Cyber Security budgets and hiring more than ever.

A really cool thing about Cyber Security is the unique range of roles that you can work in, with anything from:

Consulting and analyzing issues
Setting up security for your company
To penetration testing or red teaming and being paid to attempt to hack into systems to find weaknesses or vulnerabilities
Or being a bug bounty hunter (finding bugs or errors in code for a one-time fee... these fees can be hundreds or even thousands of dollars)

How cool is that!?

Why become a Cyber Security Expert?

Cyber Security is another industry with high pay and job security (no pun intended). The average salary for a Cyber Security Analyst is ~$99k per year, while penetration testers earn around $120k, but this can be even higher if they take on freelance and consulting gigs.

How do you get started in Cyber Security?

You can either check out content for free online, or you can get started from scratch with no prior coding experience, and take our complete Cyber Security Bootcamp.

Then if you want to niche down further and continue to skill up, you can learn:

Why continue to skill up?

Some bug bounties (i.e issues on a site or app that you are paid to find), can offer as high as $1.5 Million dollars each!

Not bad right?

Even on the low end, bug bounties can pay multiple thousands of dollars!

#3. Data Wrangler

Average salary: There are numerous ‘Data Wrangler' roles available and salary differs between them, based on years of experience and complexity of the role. Data Analysts make around $82,640, Data Scientists earn around $122,738 per year, and Data Engineers make on average $129,716
Current # of job postings in the US: According to listings on LinkedIn, there are currently 153,000 Data Science / Analysis / Engineering jobs available in the US right now!
Industry size and expected growth: Current estimates are that the global data science and analysis market will grow to $322.9 Billion by 2030, which is a 27.7% growth rate

We're using ‘Data Wrangler’ as a catch all term for people who work with, clean, or advise on data. As you might imagine, because the world of data jobs is growing and evolving so fast that different companies call these roles different things.

The most common roles are: Data Engineers, Data Analysts, and Data Scientists. That post goes into more detail about the differences of each.

So why has data become so 'hot'?

Well the biggest difference between companies that fail and the ones that become market leaders, is their ability to track, understand, and make decisions based on their data.

Simple as that. Data is the new oil.

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It’s so important that every single FAANG company can be described as ‘data-driven’. This basically just means that pretty much every decision they make is based on data (and not just Zuck's gut feel of what he thinks is cool).

It's not just big tech companies though. It’s true for market leaders in almost any industry.

The thing is, for a while it was only the larger companies that saw the value and acted on this. Not now. Almost every company that wants to succeed needs to be leveraging their data better.

That’s where our ‘Data Wrangler’ friends come in.

Why become a Data Wrangler?

Each data role is slightly different but they are all a key part of either acquiring, cleaning, understanding, or making predictions and actions based on data.

That’s why this industry is also predicted to grow 27.7% by 2030!

Add in the fact that Data Analyst salaries average around $82k, Data Scientist salaries average $123k, and Data Engineers' average salary is a whopping $129k, it’s instantly clear that companies are willing to pay top dollar for people who have these skills. (Each of these is around a $4-6k increase in average salary since last year also).

As for job opportunities?

There are WAY more data related jobs available than there are people with these skills. It's a huge mismatch which means this is a great time to dive into this career.

In fact, there are over 150,000 data related jobs available as of writing right now in the United States alone!

How do you get started in the world of Data and Business Intelligence?

It depends on your current skills and experience. But you'll usually start out as a Data Analyst and can then move into a Data Engineer or Data Scientist role once you have more experience.

But that's not to say you can't get a role as a Data Engineer or Data Scientist right away.

The quickest way to get started in this field? We can suggest two routes:

If you want to take a more technical route (ex: learning and using Python), then take this course to go from complete beginner to full-time Data Analyst
If you are already experienced with Excel, you can actually do much more than you'd think. Many Data and Business Intelligence Analyst's use it as their main tool. This course covers everything you need to launch a career as a data professional using Excel

From there, you can take your skills even further and learn:

Power BI ("Business Intelligence") - a key tool for data visualization
Time series forecasting to start training towards becoming a Data Scientist
Data Science Bootcamp - if you're finding time series forecasting interesting and useful, why not go all out and become a full time Data Scientist or Data Engineer? This bootcamp will get you there

#4. Machine Learning Engineer

Average salary: Starting at around $129,000
Current # of job postings in the US: According to LinkedIn, there are currently 63,000 available Machine Learning jobs in the US alone
Industry size and expected growth: The global Machine Learning market size is expected to grow to $225.91 billion by 2030

AI and ML are exploding right now. In fact, there’s so much growth that new jobs are being created to fit new roles, all due to new capabilities that are becoming available, such as an AI Engineer or a Prompt Engineer.

Sidenote: If we weren’t limiting this list to just 5 positions, these 2 roles would have almost certainly made the list.

Both of them are fantastic career options and are definitely worth pursuing, as they each pay well, and are starting to build demand, but there’s not a huge amount of positions open right now (15,000 AI Engineering and 1,000+ Prompt Engineering) Trust us though - these 2 will be something to look into for sure.

However, one role that continues to grow (and is vital to those others to be able to work) is the Machine Learning Engineer.

They work behind the scenes to create and tweak algorithms so that machines can learn from data and make predictions - enabling tools like voice assistants, self-driving cars, robots, and LLMs to function.

With a projected industry growth of $225 Billion, and 63,000 open jobs, there’s definitely demand and a future in this space, but let’s look at the current career prospects.

Why become a Machine Learning Engineer?

As of the time of writing, the current average salary for a Machine Learning Engineer is around $129k per year but we've even heard of senior ML people at big tech companies (ex: Tesla, Microsoft, etc.) making way more than that.

This is a more of a niche industry (for now) so there are less open positions than some other jobs on this list, but we expect that number to grow massively in the coming years.

The only downside is that it's probably the hardest to pick up as a complete beginner on this list since it's the most technical. But that definitely doesn't mean it isn't possible.

How to become a Machine Learning Engineer?

Well, you can either take our complete A.I. & Machine Learning and Data Science Bootcamp which will fast-track you into getting hired and learning how to become a Machine Learning Engineer, even if you’ve never coded before in your life (we told you it's possible 😉)!

Or you can follow the steps below:

First off, learn Python. (Or, take our Python Bootcamp if you want to speed up your progress)
Read this series of articles on Medium
Start working with a machine learning API like Clarifai and build a simple application
Learn about advancements in Machine Learning
Start using Jupyter
Build your own ML projects and start creating a portfolio
Start applying for jobs (and follow this guide to get hired as an ML Engineer!)

#5. Cloud Engineer

Average salary: Around $131,000
Current # of job postings in the US: There are 66,000+ Cloud Engineering jobs currently available on LinkedIn
Industry size and expected growth: This will blow your mind. The global cloud computing market is expected to to reach $1,554.94 Trillion by 2030

To be honest, Cloud Engineer should have been on the list last year. That was our mistake, and we own it.

Cloud computing might not be as exciting or sexy as these other areas (or Blockchain from the last couple of years) but it is an essential infrastructure of the internet at this point.

It seems like it's already absolutely everywhere and somehow just keeps getting bigger and bigger.

AWS, Google Cloud, Azure... each of these business units could be massive independent companies on their own.

Look at this graph of Amazon's AWS revenue over time. Bonkers.

Why become a Cloud Engineer?

Companies need people to manage their cloud services, to help them pick the right ones, to maintain them, to keep the costs down as much as possible, etc.

It's a key role, and a fundamental technology that's here to stay, shaping the way that businesses operate and innovate. Heck, you only have to look at the projected growth to see just how important this is.

Also, like every role on this list, it’s well paid and in extremely high demand. $131,000 is nothing to be sniffed at, and those 63,000 available jobs will only continue to grow as this industry expands out.

In terms of the actual work you’ll do as a Cloud Engineer, you play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud-based systems, enabling organizations to leverage cutting-edge technologies and optimize their operations.

How do you become a Cloud Engineer?

Our resident Cloud expert Amber Israelsen actually wrote a step by step guide to becoming a Cloud Engineer here, but let me give you the mile high overview.

You don’t need a degree to get hired, but you do need to learn the basic Cloud fundamentals, so learn those first. Start off by learning how to become a certified Cloud Practitioner, and pass the AWS practitioner exam. You can even start working with the cloud at this point, but don’t stop learning here
Now that you have the fundamentals, continue to learn to become a Cloud Engineer, and learn advanced cloud technologies and methods. This will not only open up more Senior roles for you, but it can also pay a LOT more
Learn a programming language. You’re going to need some basic, foundational knowledge in a programming language, simply because this will come up now and again during your work. Amber recommends either learning Python or JavaScript, and working through a course on either of these until you feel comfortable and understand the core principles, and can write some code
Get some hands-on experience and apply what you’ve been learning by building some portfolio projects. A great idea is to actually pull together several different pieces, demonstrating that you can put together a solid cloud infrastructure. If you're not sure where to start, use this project as a guide to building a simple web app which uses a lot of common AWS elements
Prepare for the interview, and learn the answers to these questions
Apply for jobs!

Want a step by step process with everything to learn, in the right order so you can just follow until you're ready to be hired?

Check out our Cloud Engineer career path roadmap!

So which tech job is best for this year?

If you’re crunched for time and just want the answers, here they are.

Which is the most in demand tech job?

Things can always change but right now, the most in demand tech field is Cyber Security, with over 750,000 Cyber Security roles available in the US alone right now!

If you ever wanted to be Neo from the Matrix and hack or stop hackers, the job opportunities are definitely there.

Which is the highest paying tech job?

That really depends. Are we talking entry level or super senior positions?

Some positions in more Senior roles can literally earn millions of dollars per year, but it takes 5-20 years to get there. Elon Musk technically has a ‘tech job’ but his earnings are slightly different from most 😉!

If we look at average salaries across the fast-growing and most in-demand tech roles then Cloud Engineer has the highest average salary at $131k per year.

Which area of tech is best for the future?

We feel confident that the 5 tech roles we cover in this post all provide a future-proof career so it’s a matter of figuring out which one you have the most interest in.

Why care about interests?

This goes back to what we were saying at the start, but if you’re not interested in what you’re learning or doing, you’re way less likely to succeed. So don’t just pick the role with the highest average salary or the one with the most jobs available today.

In case you missed it up top, here’s a quick recap:

Software Developer is one of the easiest entry-level roles to get into, it gives you a great foundation to move into other areas, and you can earn a good salary
Data Roles can pay very well and is one of the most versatile roles since companies across all industries need people to help them understand their numbers
Cyber Security is the highest demand role right now on our list purely by # of jobs available and it’s pretty cool to get paid to hack systems!
Machine Learning Engineer is probably the hardest to land a job in but it offers a very high average salary, and the growth over the next few years is going to be insane… get in now
Cloud Engineering is probably the least interesting role on the list (subjective of course) but it currently pays the most and has the largest growth of any industry on this list. It’s not going away anytime soon… you could have a nice career in this space

What is the most exciting tech job that has the best chance of making it onto the list in 2025?

Definitely AI Engineering and Prompt Engineering.

It’s no secret. The AI space is exploding, and it is still early days. We also don’t see it just being hype like Blockchain.

For now though, they are too new to be in our Top 5, but definitely keep an eye on them for 2025.

If you want to plan ahead and think these roles could be interesting, we highly recommend focusing on Software Development or Machine Learning for 2024 first. Either of these will give you a very strong foundation to pivot into niche AI roles the fastest once more and more companies start introducing AI specific roles in the coming years.

What is the easiest and highest-paying tech job?

Hmm, that depends on what you enjoy and find easy!

But if you forced us to choose, we’d have to say that Web/Software Development is probably the easiest to get into and you can definitely be making $100K - $300K within a few years of being in the industry if you work hard and play your cards right.

It’s also the best option if you think you might want to explore other tech roles and niches over time as well because you’ll have a fantastic foundation.

Which role will you choose?

They’re all good options. The best time to get into tech was last year (that’s a lie… maybe 2019 or 2021) but the next best time is right now.

Pick a path and go for it. No matter your background, your age, or any other reason!

If you’re not sure which one is best for you, then why not take our tech career quiz?

It’ll ask you a few questions and then not only suggest the best role but also give you a step-by-step guide to making it happen.

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