Ever wondered where to start in tech? Listed here are careers in tech high in demand. Contact us to learn any.
1. Marketing Technologist ($102k)
Tasks: As a marketing technologist, you’ll spend your days coming up with marketing strategies and finding, testing, and selecting the technology that powers them.
Skills: Project management, writing & verbal communication skills, tech skills (like HTML + CSS), online marketing strategies and concepts (like growth hacking + headline testing), Google Analytics, and email services (like Mailchimp).
2. Digital Marketing Manager ($88k)
Tasks: attract users and convert them into customers. To effectively market in the digital world, means measuring and analyzing what works and what doesn’t.
Skills: Digital marketing strategizing, digital marketing operations – Email marketing, SEO (search engine optimization) and web analytics, branding and storytelling, A/B testing
3. Social Media Manager ($76k)
Tasks: Working in social media, you’ll be targeting audiences with social content, analyzing, testing, and optimizing strategies, and driving brand awareness.
Skills: Expert familiarity with Platforms Like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, Tumblr, and Snapchat, report analysis, writing and communication; branding and storytelling.
4. Content Manager ($67k) ~Copy writing(start)
Tasks: create and edit content, define and implement brand voice, manage content, analyze user engagement and shift strategies frequently
Skills: Writing, editing, storytelling, email marketing, AB testing, traction testing, and expertise in content management system (CMS) like WordPress are just some of the varied tasks you’ll do as a content manager.
5. Content Strategist ($74)
Tasks: You’ll create & edit content, define and implement brand voice, manage content, analyze user engagement, and shift strategies frequently.
Skills: report analysis, writing, editing, and storytelling; email marketing; A/B testing; traction testing; expertise in content management system (CMS) like WordPress.
6. SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Consultant($102k)
Tasks: You’ll spend your time working to gain inbound links to increase traffic, optimize copy(writeups) and metadata for SEO, and create high-impact stories and headlines.
Skills: Growth/data analysis, A/B Testing, Google Analytics, storytelling, branding, and written communication
7. Information Architect ($103k)
Information architects do their work where content meets product strategy.
Tasks: The information architect’s main jobs are to create site maps and user flows, define data flows/delivery, and research concept and usability testing.
Skills: web analytics, organising information, translating user behaviour into site structures
***DESIGN-FOCUSED
8. UX(User eXperience) Designer($97k)
User experience designers are a lot like information architects, only they spend more time researching, mocking up user interaction, product designs, and working with developers.
Tasks: If you get into UX design, your job will include developing prototypes, mocking up designs, designing specs, and researching and analyzing user experience and behaviour to iterate and traction test.
Skills: qualitative/quantitative research, wireframing tools, Figma, Adobe XD, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, data analysis
9. UI(User Interface) Designer($92k)
User interface designers work closely with user experience designers, but rather than focusing on analysis, user interface designers are all about the look and feel of a website and app.
Tasks: design site interfaces and graphics, do customer analysis, perform design research, and create branding and interactive and animated designs.
Skills: Photoshop, Adobe XD, Figma, wireframing, prototyping tools, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Git + GitHub
10. Front-End Designer($92k)
This is the job where all that HTML and CSS you learned gets centre stage. Front-end designers can do a lot of different jobs, from seeing designs through from prototyping to implementing to focusing on coding up existing designs.
Tasks: The main responsibilities of a front-end designer are to transform mockups into web pages, create and optimize graphics for the web, and write clean and efficient code.
Skills: HTML, CSS, SASS, sometimes JavaScript, jQuery, and front-end frameworks
11. Front-End Developer($92k)
Front-end developers don’t just create static websites – they also know how to code up interactive pages and web apps.
Tasks: Front-end development could be right for you if you like the idea of prototyping and building interactive sites, debugging across browsers, and managing user data.
Skills: Git + GitHub, JavaScript, jQuery, Grunt/Gulp, SASS, HTML, CSS, frameworks like Bootstrap, Node.js, AngularJS, ReactJS, and Ember.js.
12. Mobile Developer($102k)
Tasks: You’ll work as a mobile developer to optimize code for mobile, take designs from prototype to code, and test and analyze code for mobile.
Skills: Git + GitHub, iOs, Android, Javascript, Dart(Flutter), other languages like Ruby, Objective-C, or Java
13. Full-Stack Developer ($107k)
Tasks: Covering the full-stack as a developer means building and managing platforms and working across teams to create projects, code projects, and manage databases.
Skills: Anything!! Git + GitHub, HTML, CSS, SASS, JavaScript, Java, MySQL, Ruby, Python, Responsive Web Design, jQuery, frameworks, PHP, Apache…
14. WordPress Developer ($79k)
WordPress powers more than 20% of the world’s websites. Learning to build WordPress sites puts you in high demand for freelance jobs and full-time positions.
Tasks: Take advantage of the power of WordPress as a developer by designing and coding themes and plugins, managing content, deploying and backing up sites and managing versions with Git and GitHub.
Skills: Git + GitHub, PHP, HTML, CSS, WordPress, PHP(optional)
***DATA-FOCUSED
15. Database Administrator($58k)
If you are meticulous about naming and tagging your photos and always keep your files backed up, then you might have the soul of a database administrator.
Tasks: Installing, maintaining, and securing databases and data storage will be your critical tasks if you become a database administrator.
Skills: organized, detail-oriented, hands-on experience with data, SQL, no-SQL database, relational database management systems(RDBMS)
16. Data Architect ($112k)
Being a data architect is like being the architect for the virtual house that an organization’s data will live in.
Tasks: As a data architect, you’ll spend your days designing and building systems for collecting, processing, and storing data.
Skills: understanding of databases and data storage, systematic thinking, SQL, no-SQL database
17. Data Modeler($102k)
Can you both understand the “big picture” & the details behind it? As a data modeller, you’ll need to wrap your head around both theoretical and concrete concepts about data.
Tasks: If you’re intrigued by defining what kind of data a company needs and how to structure and organize it, you should definitely consider a career in data modelling.
Skills: information science training, conceptual and practical thinking
18. Data Analyst($61k)
A data analyst is like a historian of a company’s information. They gather the facts about data and relate the stories it tells.
Tasks: Your responsibilities as a data analyst will be to collect, process, and report on data for businesses and organizations.
Skills: Spreadsheet, Maxqda, Tableau, Statistical Packages for the Sciences (SPSS), SQL(Structured, Querying Language), Python, understanding of databases and storage, attention to detail, ability to communicate findings clearly and concisely
19. Data Scientist ($79k)
Instead of using data to tell what’s happened to a company in the past, a data scientist uses data to tell a company what to do in the future. Predictions, anyone?
Tasks: As a data scientist, you’ll take on analyzing and interpreting findings from data for decision-making.
Skills: excellent analytical and modelling skills, deep understanding of organization’s situation and strategy, Statistical Packages for the Sciences (SPSS), SQL(Structured, Querying Language)
20. Cloud Architecture ($112k)
Just like you couldn’t live without your Dropbox or Google Drive account nowadays, a lot of companies need cloud storage to compete. And cloud architects help them make the most of cloud services.
Tasks: If you become a cloud architect, you’ll be expected to design, set up, and manage cloud data storage and access services and work to prevent security issues.
Skills: knowledge of cloud technologies and providers, ability to work closely with vendors and adapt to quickly-changing technologies. Amazon Web Service (AWS), Microsoft Azure, DevOps
***MGT-FOCUSED
Great for people with management experience.
21. Technical Lead ($93K)
the leader of a group of developers. They have the critical task of keeping the team focused & turning plans into reality, plus they’ll often be doing some of the programming themselves.
Tasks: Working as a technical lead, you’ll set and maintain visions for development teams, make sure developers have the environment, budget, and support they need, and work alongside developers doing some programming yourself.
Skills: programming prowess and leadership abilities, team-building skills, process and goal focused
22. DevOps Manager ($106K)
bridge between developer, quality, and technology teams – helping them understand each others’ tasks and situations so that they can work together to get the best results.
Tasks: Can you facilitate cooperation between development, operations, and quality assurance (QA) to help get the best software produced as quickly and reliably as possible?
Skills: broad knowledge of technologies, great communicator, enjoys and promotes teamwork
23. Agile Project Manager ($102K)
about being responsive and interactive to get what’s essential done as soon as possible. So fast &flexible teamwork is the name of the game – and includes “scrums”!
Tasks: Managing the design and build of IT products or services using agile management techniques will be your main focus as an agile project manager.
Skills: Knowledge of agile techniques, team management skills, problem solver
24. Product Manager ($79K)
Consider yourself a multi-talent? Product manager could be a great role to bring your different interests together since they work to bring together business, technology, and user experience.
Tasks: Some of your many tasks as a product manager will be to understand and balance multiple requirements for products, set priorities, make sure the best products are produced, and analyze results.
Skills: strong technical background, interacts well with different groups, analytical
25. Technical Account Manager ($86k)
You don’t have to give up working with customers just because you go into tech. As a technical account manager, you’ll be key to meeting customers needs & winning sales.
Tasks: If you get into technical account management, your role will be to build customer relationships, analyze customer requirements, help to develop solutions, and provide after-sales support.
Skills: customer-focused, understanding of technologies, great communicator
***SPECIALISTS
26. ADs Specialist(53K)
Someone that plans, sets up and manages advertisement campaigns in Google, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. They might be dedicated to helping people advertise their business, or they might be an all-rounder who helps with ads, along with other related needs, including websites, landing pages, email campaigns and more.
27. Security Specialist ($68k)
It goes without saying how important security is in tech nowadays. So, if you want to be in demand in the industry, consider the job of security specialist.
Tasks: The critical role you’ll play as a security specialist will mean you’ll analyze and maintain security of data, systems, and equipment and investigate any breaches to prevent them in the future.
Skills: in-depth knowledge of systems and security threats and best practices, analytical skills, interest in staying up-to-date on changes in the industry
28. QA (QUALITY ASSURANCE) SPECIALIST ($69k)
Here’s a chance to be nitpicky and get paid for it! Working as a QA specialist, you’ll be expected to find all the flaws and glitches in software and apps and come up with tests to detect them.
Tasks: You’ll help keep companies’ quality top-notch as a QA specialist by evaluating software & applications, developing and running quality tests, & documenting & analyzing test results.
Skills: independent, detail-oriented, systematic, analytical
29. GAME DEVELOPER($102k)
You can earn a living playing – or at least making games to be played.
Tasks: Turn fun into you career as a game developer with work ranging from programming to designing and graphics to testing.
Skills: technical chops in area of expertise, creativity, interest in latest developments and trends, tolerance for tight deadlines.
30. Computer Graphics Animator ($70k)
You can’t see a movie or commercial nowadays without seeing computer animation. So, just think – You could be the creator of a character as loveable as Groot or special effects as realistic as “The Perfect Storm”.
Tasks: As a CG animator, you’ll be the one to design, present, and develop graphic animation.
Skills: mastery of animation tools and technology, creativity, artistry, teamwork skills
CONCLUSION
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Sam is a Solution Architect and Software Engineer with a deep interest in finance, data, community, mental health, and education. Connecting the dot is his superpower. Sam is exploring his curiosity and creativity to match that with what the world needs.