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It’s good to be a techie.
Tech jobs in fields from cloud engineering to UX design filled Glassdoor’s annual report on the 50 best jobs in America for 2020. Jobs in the sector appeared 20 times on the list, taking the top seven spots. Glassdoor is a website where workers anonymously rate and review their employers.
Considering the explosion in growth experienced by some of the largest tech companies in the world over the past 20 years, it should not be surprising that tech jobs dominate such lists. The five largest tech firms in the United States — Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet (the parent company of Google), and Facebook — have collectively put more than 1 million people to work between 2000 and 2018, according to financial filings from those companies.
However, you don’t have to work at a mega-cap tech company to land one of these gigs, Glassdoor said, as businesses across all industries take on employees with technical backgrounds to compete in an increasingly technological world.
Glassdoor analyzed user-generated data on its site to create the rankings using three variables: earning potential, overall job satisfaction and number of openings.
The role of front-end engineer claimed the top spot on this year’s list, bumping down data scientist, which was named Glassdoor’s best job every year since 2016. Glassdoor said front-end engineer managed to climb the ranks thanks to an increase in demand for such employees, with over 13,000 open roles, based on Glassdoor’s data, nearly double the number of openings for data scientists.
Product manager, which placed fourth on the list, offers employees the highest median base salary of $117,713, according to Glassdoor’s data, while product designer and Salesforce developer tied with the highest job satisfaction rating score of 4.2. Software engineer, which placed seventh overall, is the job most in demand, with 50,438 job openings.
Glassdoor ranks job satisfaction on a 1-5 scale.
Here is Glassdoor’s ranking of the top 20 tech jobs in the U.S. for 2020 and their rankings in the overall top 50 list:
1. Front-end engineer
Job satisfaction rating: 3.9
Number of job openings: 13,122
Median base salary: $105,240
2. Java developer
Job satisfaction rating: 3.9
Number of job openings: 16,136
Median base salary: $83,589
3. Data scientist
Job satisfaction rating: 4.0
Number of job openings: 6,542
Median base salary: $107,801
4. Product manager
Job satisfaction rating: 3.8
Number of job openings: 12,173
Median base salary: $117,713
5. DevOps engineer
Job satisfaction rating: 3.9
Number of job openings: 6,603
Median base salary: $107,310
6. Data engineer
Job satisfaction rating: 3.9
Number of job openings: 6,941
Median base salary: $102,472
7. Software engineer
Job satisfaction rating: 3.6
Number of job openings: 50,438
Median base salary: $105,563
8. Salesforce developer
Job satisfaction rating: 4.2
Number of job openings: 3,639
Median base salary: $81,175
9. Applications engineer
Job satisfaction rating: 3.7
Number of job openings: 9,550
Median base salary: $76,854
10. Systems engineer
Job satisfaction rating: 3.5
Number of job openings: 16,850
Median base salary: $92,225
11. Scrum master
Job satisfaction rating: 3.8
Number of job openings: 2,894
Median base salary: $100,000
12. Software developer
Job satisfaction rating: 3.5
Number of job openings: 31,909
Median base salary: $80,429
13. Cloud engineer
Job satisfaction rating: 3.6
Number of job openings: 4,668
Median base salary: $110,600
14. Product designer
Job satisfaction rating: 4.2
Number of job openings: 1,946
Median base salary: $102,000
15. UX designer
Job satisfaction rating: 3.8
Number of job openings: 3,308
Median base salary: $90,478
16. QA engineer
Job satisfaction rating: 3.8
Number of job openings: 3,321
Median base salary: $81,632
17. Sales engineer
Job satisfaction rating: 3.8
Number of job openings: 2,854
Median base salary: $87,608
18. Data analyst
Job satisfaction rating: 3.7
Number of job openings: 6,848
Median base salary: $62,973
19. Automation engineer
Job satisfaction rating: 3.8
Number of job openings: 2,658
Median base salary: $85,456
20. Network engineer
Job satisfaction rating: 3.6
Number of job openings: 6,138
Median base salary: $71,028
