Highest-Paying Programming Languages to Learn in 2023

From Zig to Ruby, here are the top highest-paying programming languages to learn in 2023

The Stack Overflow Developer Survey results this year were unexpected because so much has changed in a year. It would be best to assume that Python or JavaScript would be at the top; however, the rankings are determined by demand rather than popularity. We will learn everything about niche languages today because businesses are willing to pay extra for them.

1. Zig

Average Annual Salary: US$103,611

Zig is a programming language designed to assist programmers in creating robust, effective, and reusable software. Zig strikes a balance between low-level control and high-level abstractions for optimum performance.

2. Erlang

Average Annual Salary: US$99,492

Building big, distributed systems that need great scalability, high availability, and quick performance is a good use for the programming language Erlang. Ericsson initially created Erlang in the middle of the 1980s to construct communications systems.

3. F#

Average Annual Salary: US$99,311

A general-purpose, cross-platform programming language called F# is built for performance, functionality, and interoperability. In addition to offering seamless interoperability with other.NET languages like C#, F# runs on the.NET Framework and lets you target web and mobile through JavaScript compilation.

4. Ruby

Average Annual Salary: US$98,522

Ruby is a dynamic, open-source programming language that prioritizes simplicity and productivity. Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto developed it in the middle of the 1990s, and it has become popular for web development, scripting, and general-purpose programming.

5. Clojure

Average Annual Salary: US$96,381

A scripting language's simplicity and interaction are combined with a compiled language's effectiveness and resilience to create the programming language Clojure. It has simple access to Java frameworks and excels in multithreaded development. The programming language Clojure is mostly functional and is a dialect of Lisp. It provides software transactional memory and reactive agent systems for when a mutable state is required.