Everyone wants to get the highest paying job in whatever sector they are. In order to land a highest paying job, you need to have the skills those types of jobs demand. If you are a programmer, you need to learn and master those programming languages for which the industry cashes in the highest pay for the developers. Stack Overflow conducts an annual survey every year to find out about the highest paying programming languages in the concurrent year.

Top 10 Highest Paying Programming Languages in 2018 –

Go –

The programming language is developed by Google and considered among the modern programming languages as it was introduced in 2009. It is an open source platform, and it is the backbone of the major projects like Netflix, Dropbox, SoundCloud, and much more. It is its efficiency in multithreaded tasks and parallel processing that has made it popular and it is considered to be the futuristic server language due to its innovative memory management system. The average salary for Go developers is around $110,000 per year.

Scala –

Scala is designed to be like Java, but it takes care of all the shortcoming and criticisms Java received. It has a functional programming approach and supports advanced type system. The most important feature of Scala is its scalability. No other programming language can match its scalability feature, and that is why it has become a favorite among startups. Even though it has functional tendencies, there are object-oriented extensions, and it is a true amalgamation. As far as the annual pay goes for Scala developers, it is neck to neck with Go developers.

Objective C –

We all know that Apple is the most valuable company in the world and its products and services are meant for rich people mostly. Objective-C is extensively used by Apple developers for creating applications for various Apple platforms. When the services and products are so highly priced, you can only imagine the kind of salary Objective-C developers get in return. According to the survey, the average annual pay for developers is about $108,000 per year.

CoffeeScript –

CoffeeScript is an upgrade to JavaScript which is the most popular programming language currently. In fact, it compiles into JavaScript, and its objective is to make the good points of JavaScript simpler for developers. The popularity of the programming language is on the rise, but in comparison, there are fewer developers. Therefore, the industry is ready to pay a premium to CoffeeScript developers and subsequently, the programming language has become one of the highest paying in the industry, especially in the US.

Perl –

Perl is one of the most powerful programming languages that are widely used, and it is used heavily for heavyweight development. For example, system administration, graphic designing of interfaces, networking programming, and all such complicated works are done on Perl. Naturally, the pay of Perl developers is high, and it is also due to the fact that there are limited Perl developers as most of them concentrate on PHP JavaScript, Java, Python and likewise. The average pay annually is around $105,000.

Python –

Python is one of the most popular programming languages and it is called the modern Java. The programming language has already taken on the programming world and developers are concentrating on it for developing all the different types of applications. On an average, the developers get close to $100,000 annually.

Swift –

Swift is the main programming language behind the development of applications for Apple products along with Objective-C. Even though the popularity has gone down slightly due to a widespread use of Objective-C, it is still one of the highest-paying job generators for the developers. The programming language is relatively new and was introduced in 2014 just like 2014. If it keeps on revamping itself, the demand can rise to the highest point.

C++ –

It is one of old generation programming language now and falls in the class of C. Yet, it is one of the most widely used programming languages even today when you take about graphic designing, games development, standalone software and much more. In comparison to other languages, C++ is slightly on the difficult side in the learning curve, and the pay is quite high to get features in the list.

If you are starting to learn programming languages, it is better to stick with the highest paying and most demanding programming languages to increase your chance of getting a job that will satisfy your financial requirements excessively for a long future, and you can call yourself elite in the programming world.

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