1 year ago

Here’s a dirty little secret: time and again, some of the top-paying tech jobs are for skills that haven’t been cool in decades. The programming languages with the largest increase in median salary in https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022 were https://thenewstack.io/u-s-unemployment-surge-highlights-dire-need-for-cobol-skills/ and https://thenewstack.io/microsofts-programming-language-czar-anders-hejlsberg-the-interview/, rising to $75,592 and $63,984 — up 44% and 37% — respectively.

Self-reported salary survey data is notoriously volatile; the same is true even https://thenewstack.io/stack-overflow-rust-remains-most-favored-but-clojure-pays-the-most/.

Developers who have used Delphi in the last year saw adoption rise from 2.36% in 2021 to 3.51% among professional developers in 2022.

Median salaries of developers rose across the board over the last year, driven up by inflation and economic demand.