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Editor's Note: This article was initially published by PayScale.com on December 11, 2018 and can be viewed in full detail here.
Much of the growth in the U.S. economy over the past year has been due to gains in the technology sector, a trend that was reflected in PayScale’s worker survey data. Of the 10 fastest growing jobs in our crowdsourced salary data, half were in technology professions. We saw the largest increase in full stack software developers in 2018, with a 572 percent increase in respondents compared to 2017. There is intense demand for highly skilled tech workers across industries.
While all jobs serve a purpose – the position wouldn't be paid anything if it wasn't valuable – some careers are simply more useful than others. This is especially true in the IT world, where the intense complexity of modern technology has forced certain workers to specialize to an incredible degree. While this specialization certainly takes time and effort, the end result is an individual with the ability to affect real change in his or her workplace.