It should come as no surprise that technology is the way of the future and everything from the windows in your home to the vehicles you drive to work are the products of advances in technology. With so many everyday tasks and applications being dominated by hi-tech solutions, careers in the field can be quite lucrative. If you are preparing for your future and deciding on what to pursue in college, here is a list of five high paying careers in technology that hold great promise for the future.

Security Administrator

Every day you hear in the news that hackers were able to get past security in networks by making it past vulnerabilities in the coding. Some hackers are looking for personal information to use in identity theft whilst others are looking for industrial or government trade secrets. Other hackers still have no real purpose than to cause havoc on the Web. As a result, companies like Planet Hippo that offer web hosting services place a high degree of importance in the security administrator they hire.

Computer Programmer

A career in IT is certainly in great demand no matter which area of the industry you choose to enter. A computer programmer is also in high demand and as technology advances, so will the depth of technology a programmer will need to understand. In order to do this job efficiently the programmer would need to be well versed in computer languages such as JavaScript and C++. Not only do programmers need to learn all the necessary technological functions of a computer but they also have to learn, for all intents and purposes, a ‘foreign’ language.

Software Engineer

This particular niche within the IT industry has several subsets which are in great demand today. A software engineer writes programs for a number of different ultimate purposes, some occupational, some educational and some just for fun such as for the gaming industry. If you are a talented programmer, you really can earn as much as you want by writing programs that will sell.

Web App Developers

In recent years, healthcare wearables have become all the rage and software engineers who write the corresponding programs are in high demand. Most healthcare apps are a means of empowering patients to take their healthcare into their own hands because of the lack of qualified health professionals, an overburdened healthcare system and inefficient means of communicating with their providers. There is big money to be made as an app developer.

Systems Analyst

It doesn’t matter what type of computer technology is in question, systems analysts are of extreme importance. These are the people who solve issues when computers or networks go down, lag or have glitches of unknown origin. A systems analyst diagnoses the problem so that the ‘system’ can be repaired and brought up to speed again.

If you have any doubt whatsoever just how lucrative a career in technology would be, just take a moment to look around you. From agriculture to manufacturing, all businesses are impacted in some way by technology, every home is dependent upon it and every individual on earth is being served by medical technology. Indeed, tech jobs are the jobs of the future and if you are looking for a career that offers stability going forward, that would be a high paying job in technology.

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