Half of the Highest-Paying Jobs in America Now Require You to Know How to Code

If terms like SQL, Python and JavaScript aren’t on your radar, employers may not be interested in hiring you.

Roughly half of the jobs in the top income quartile – defined as those paying $57,000 or more per year – are in occupations that commonly require applicants to have at least some computer coding knowledge or skill, according to an analysis of 26 million U.S. online job postings released this month by job market analytics firm Burning Glass and Oracle Academy, the philanthropic arm of Oracle focused on computer science education, in Redwood City, Calif. In simple terms, coders write the instructions that tell computers what to do; in-demand programming languages include SQL, Java, JavaScript, C# and Python.

By Catey Hill

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