15 Highest Paying Programming Languages in 2022
Technology always takes a dominant position in the economy and society. Enterprises are trying hard to seek skilled programmers. For the people who want to find a job in this industry, it is quite useful to have a full picture of which programming language is the most demanding on the market, and which one can get the highest pay. Now, let’s take a look at the 15 highest-paying programming languages in 2022.
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This list is a mixed bag, some of those are legacy languages that most devs don't want to deal with, (because there are other languages that offer a better dev experience) and that's why they pay more.
I can see also some languages in the list, where I'm pretty sure that it will be hard to find work as a junior/mid-level dev.
If you are a beginner dev making a choice about what language to learn: I would not base that choice on the highest paying languages...
Look at ease of finding a job (easy to assess by looking a job board) and also ease of finding a junior role (you will soon discover that in some languages, most roles on offer are for senior devs).
Well said, I agree with your assessment regarding choices for beginners. Go might be the perfect example of that. Go is staggeringly easy to learn and fun to use, but I suspect many products built with it are solving problems that are either complex or where efficiency is important. The pay increase is probably a reflection of the seniority of the average Go programmer, more than Go being a high paying language in general.
Where is Ruby?
Ruby seems to be dropping off from what I have seen but as a Ruby developer myself I think it is a real shame because it is such a nice language to learn and write. There still seems to be a liking to it at web agencies though, probably something to do with how fast rails is to prototype new features. I have also been playing with Crystal recently which is basically Ruby but with types for those who would like to play with static typing.
Either way though, it does seem to be getting less and less popular which is hard to accept when it is such a nice language to write. I just hope they come out with something new and exciting to other developers in the next few years to bring back its popularity a little bit.
I take these numbers with a pinch of salt. It's hard to see all PHP developers earning 120k per year.