Professional social network LinkedIn has released a list of the 20 most promising jobs in 2017, with more than half tech-related.
The list highlights jobs with high median salaries, strong job openings and year-over-year growth, and the jobs most likely to lead to a promotion or advancement. The data was collected from the millions of US profiles on the site.
Daniel Shapero, LinkedIn VP of talent solutions and careers, says in a blog post the list was released to help users make "more informed career decisions" if thinking of changing jobs.
Shapero says job-hopping has become more and more common in the last two decades.
"Based on our research, we know that the top reasons people change jobs is to pursue a stronger career path, make more money or access more opportunities within their organisation," he says.
Other than technology, the list also includes jobs in finance and healthcare. The list below includes the jobs, in order, with the median base salary, top skills and career advancement score out of 10 (a score of 10 means advancement is most likely, a score of one is least likely).
20. Medical director
Median base salary: $230 000 (R3 101 561)
Top skills: medicine, clinical research, healthcare management, healthcare information technology, electronic medical record
Career advancement score: 6
19. Customer success manager
Median base salary: $72 000 (R970 923)
Top skills: account management, CRM, Salesforce.com, SaaS, enterprise software
Career advancement score: 10
18. Analytics manager
Median base salary: $109 000 (R1 469 870)
Top skills: data analysis, SAS, business intelligence, data mining, predictive analytics
Career advancement score: 8
17. Anaesthetist
Median base salary: $156 000 (R2 103 667)
Top skills: critical care, anaesthesia, advanced cardiac life support, intensive care, hospitals
Career advancement score: 4
16. Data architect
Median base salary: $122 000 (R1 645 176)
Top skills: data warehousing, data modelling, ETL (extract, transform, load), business intelligence, databases
Career advancement score: 6
15. Tax manager
Median base salary: $103 000 (R1 388 960)
Top skills: income tax, corporate tax, tax accounting, international tax, tax advisory
Career advancement score: 6
14. Business analyst
Median base salary: $70 000 (R945 236)
Top skills: requirements analysis, business requirements, software development life cycle, user acceptance testing, Visio
Career advancement score: 8
13. Physician assistant
Median base salary: $104 000 (R1 404 351)
Top skills: advanced cardiac life support, basic life support, electronic medical record, emergency medicine, family medicine
Career advancement score: 4
12. Clinical nurse
Median base salary: $75 700 (R1 020 818)
Top skills: patient safety, hospitals, critical care, inpatient care, acute care
Career advancement score: 6
11. Software engineer
Median base salary: $94 000 (R1 267 594)
Top skills: Java, C++, SQL, Linux, XML
Career advancement score: 6
10. Scrum master
Median base salary: $100 000 (R1 348 505)
Top skills: agile methodologies, software project management, scrum, requirements analysis, SQL
Career advancement score: 8
9. Data engineer
Median base salary: $105 000 (R1 415 930)
Top skills: hadoop, python, SQL, big data, hive
Career advancement score: 8
8. Program manager
Median base salary: $97 400 (R1 313 443)
Top skills: project management, project portfolio management, project delivery, vendor management, business process improvement
Career advancement score: 7
7. Technical program manager
Median base salary: $129 000 (R1 739 571)
Top skills: agile methodologies, software project management, software development life cycle, scrum, cloud computing
Career advancement score: 8
6. Financial analyst
Median base salary: $64 000 (R863 043)
Top skills: accounting, Microsoft Excel, financial modelling, variance analysis, forecasting
Career advancement score: 8
5. Product manager
Median base salary: $97 500 (R1 314 792)
Top skills: product development, competitive analysis, product launch, cross-functional team leadership, marketing strategy
Career advancement score: 8
4. Site reliability engineer
Median base salary: $140 000 (R1 887 907)
Top skills: Linux, python, bash, apache, shell scripting
Career advancement score: 8
3. Sales engineer
Median base salary: $80 000 (R1 078 804)
Top skills: solution selling, sales management, project engineering, automation, sales engineering
Career advancement score: 6
2. Pharmacist
Median base salary: $123 000 (R1 658 661)
Top skills: medication therapy management, community pharmacy, patient counselling, pharmacy automation, immunisation
Career advancement score: 5
1. Hospitalist
Median base salary: $222 000 (R2 993 681)
Top skills: healthcare management, inpatient care, electronic medical record, patient safety, internal medicine
Career advancement score: 6
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