- The popular developer Q&A site Stack Overflow performs a survey every year asking developers about salary, education, work experience, and what technologies they use.
- Using this data, Stack Overflow identified seven tech skills that increase a developer’s average salary the most.
- These seven tech skills are often more specialized, and used by more experienced developers.
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As the year comes to an end, it’s a time to reflect on your career and see where you’d like to grow.
Turns out, there are certain skills in tech that can help you increase your salary from thousands, according to data from the popular developer Q&A site Stack Overflow, which has over 50 million unique visitors each month.
An annual Stack Overflow survey for developers around the world asks about salary, education, work experience, and what technologies they use. Using this data, the Stack Overflow team estimated how much having certain tech skills increased developers’ average salaries.
From the data, the Stack Overflow team identified seven skills that were statistically significant in increasing people’s salaries the most, which it shared with Business Insider. The numbers Stack Overflow disclosed are based on the assumption that the developer in question has five years of work experience and a bachelor’s degree in the US.
“We can see how much do these different technologies move people’s salaries up and down, how much more and less are they making relative to each other,” Stack Overflow data scientist Julia Silge told Business Insider.
One thing Silge noted that none of these skills are especially well-suited for beginners; they are rather more specialized. Silge also pointed out that developers may see a different salary increase depending on their work experience. For example, a developer with more experience would see a bigger increase, she says.
“These are tools for highly expert work,” Silge said. “People who are using these tools are people who are largely experienced, not at the beginning of these careers but a little further on.”
If you are interested in finding a job with a salary boost, here are the seven skills that can add thousands to a developers’ paycheck:
