Machine Learning Beats Data Science for Top Tech Job By Salary

Posted on March 23, 2017 by GilPress
Rank Job Title Number of Postings per Million Average Base Salary Average Growth in Postings 2013-2016
1 Machine Learning Engineer 58 $134,306 36%
2 Data Scientist 360 $129,938 108%
3 Computer Vision Engineer 20 $127,849 34%
4 Development Operations Engineer 731 $123,165 106%
5 Cloud Engineer 217 $118,878 67%
6 Senior Audit Manager 53 $118,692 52%
7 Penetration Tester 3l7 $115,557 52%
8 Oracle HCM Manager 44 $113,107 41%
9 Full Stack Developer 641 $110,770 122%
10 Salesforce Developer 230 $108,089 83%

Source: IEEE Spectrum

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