IT jobs market in the United States: mid-2020 data
Tags: career
Published: 2020-07-03 06:35:42

![IT jobs market in the U.S.](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/14hhtbezo3766fgdhd59.jpg)

Although President Donald Trump has banned skilled foreign workers entering the country until at least the end of 2020 due to COVID-2019, the United States remains a desirable place for IT specialists from all around the world.

ITShifting.com, an information website about IT relocation around the world, has analyzed more than 100,000 IT job listings on Glassdoor to find out hiring trends to watch for in 2020 in the American tech job market. [The analysis](https://itshifting.com/blog/it-jobs-market-in-the-united-states-mid-2020-data) (made with Python, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Basemap, and Wordcloud) includes data for 33 IT occupations in the 25 largest US cities and surrounding towns.

## Most popular IT jobs in the US
Overall, software engineers, data analysts, systems engineers, web developers, and Java developers are among the most popular IT occupations in the United States, with software engineers being far ahead of the rest.

### Top 10 IT jobs in the United States
1. Software engineer
2. Data analyst
3. Systems engineer
4. Web developer
5. Java developer
6. Systems analyst
7. Solutions architect
8. Data scientist
9. UX designer
10. Application developer

## US cities with the highest IT salaries
Average IT salaries vary dramatically across the top 25 largest cities. The general (and quite obvious) trend is the following: the larger and more developed the IT job market is, the higher the IT salaries in the city are, regardless of the city’s size and population.

In three cities — San Francisco, San Jose, and Seattle — the average IT salary surpasses the $100,000 mark. The average annual pay for IT workers stands at $122,800 in San Francisco, $115,600 in San Jose, and $105,100 in Seattle.

In New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Washington, DC, and Chicago, IT salaries are also higher than the national average of $91,800 per year.

![US salaries by city](https://itshifting.com/photos/content/us-salaries-by-city.png)

Jacksonville, San Antonio, Nashville, Indianapolis, and El Paso offer the lowest IT salaries among the largest cities. El Paso hits rock bottom in terms of the average remuneration for tech workers — $65,500 per year or almost two times lower than in San Francisco. This city in the far western part of Texas also offers the fewest number of IT job listings among 25 locations.

## Highest-paying IT jobs

The top three most highly-paying tech occupations in the United States are architects: cloud architects, solution architects, and network architects. Their average salary surpasses $100,000 per year. As opposed to developers who mostly execute tasks, tech architects set standards and make high-level design choices.

![US salaries by occupation](https://itshifting.com/photos/content/us-salaries-by-occupation.png)

Other IT occupations whose average salaries are $100,000 or higher include engineers, namely cloud engineers, site reliability engineers, software engineers, and DevOps engineers. Like architects, engineers also design and plan while being aware of the “big picture”. Apart from architects and engineers, salaries in the range of $100,000+ are also offered to data scientists and scrum masters.

Salaries in the lower range ($80,000 per year or less) are offered to systems analysts, data analysts, technical writers, and technical support specialists.

## Popular hard and soft skills

The most popular programming languages that can be spotted in job listings in the United States are Java, Python, JavaScript, C, Go, and .NET.

Other popular hard skills (frameworks, markup and query languages, platforms, tools, etc.) include SQL, AWS, Azure, Excel, CSS, HTML, Oracle, and Docker.

![Popular soft skills](https://itshifting.com/photos/content/hardskills.jpg)

As to soft skills (or personality traits), the most commonly mentioned ones include “leadership”, “collaborative”, “problem solving”, “flexibility”, “accuracy”, “energy”, “teamwork”, “respect”, “creativity”, and “productivity”.

In other words, US employers tend to appreciate the ability to work in a team and solve problems, be collaborative, flexible, and respectful. At the same time, job candidates need to be creative, productive, and full of energy.

## Bottom line

Setting aside the situation with the ban on visas for skilled workers, the IT jobs market in the United States remains highly attractive. When the world finally returns to normal, you may want to consider this country for relocation.

Source: [ITShifting.com](https://itshifting.com/blog/it-jobs-market-in-the-united-states-mid-2020-data)