Anyone know of some ridiculously well paying IT jobs?
Kudos if its easily upskillable through Tafe/free courses.
Surely theres some niche programing languages out there people will pay contractors a motza to use.
Best Paying IT Jobs
mavis30551 on 29/07/2022 - 15:53
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Identity Access Management is where the $$$ is at.
Depends on the role I guess…
I work in IAM, maybe I am just bad but it is average Cyber pay i reckon, plus very limited seats at the table. My dev friends who are half decent can walz into a US tech company and easily pull a 300k+ TC.
From my experience, Salesforce is one of the easiest way to enter into IT with a decent salary. Start with salesforce admin certification. Plenty of courses and certification sample questions available online for free and with low cost like 15 $. Fully configuration / CRM knowledge and no coding required. need to pass the exam around 200 USD exam cost to appear first time. Meanwhile try get a volunteering salesforce admin experience in volunteering IT non profit companies for early breakthrough to get into a job. Growing further into a developer techie role require coding knowledge more similar to Java/javascript or into a functional role like consultant / BA will definitely grow your career and salary too.
Can you recommend where to do this training from?
Salesforce offers free sign up to its training site - Trailhead.Salesforce.Com and sandbox to try . Trailhead trails are for reading and trying things. Sometimes you may need to search the topics related to specific Salesforce certification. If you want a much more rich video based interactive learning, you can try free YouTube videos or buy training courses in Udemy.Com, focusonforce.Com.
I've been viewing seek for close to a decade now for specific IT keywords - no I'm not in HR/recruitment. There are JavaScript(JS) jobs that pay 350$/hr but I'd imagine you gotta be some creative genius. Full stack developer roles have come up with high pay too and sometimes so-called legacy programming language roles arise that pay really well (For example, Perl). Having had experience with programming and the web, if you want a continuing high-er paid job I do not recommend Python! I also am anti-volunteer for most positions as this steals away from current jobs that could easily be paid.
Most of the time I've found it's not the most popular languages that'll pay well, except JS. And don't use the TIOBE index to find a language to learn - that shitty site - It's not a reliable indicator of anything.
I have about 100 staff in telco company. Python is my most in demand skill, but most staff coming in have experience with multiple languages including Powershell, Angular, Nosql, NodeJs etc etc. stuff like Shell scripting is expected if you are supporting RHEL servers.
Then we have tools which can be found everywhere and expected to know applications such as Jira, RPA tools such as Automation anywhere, UI Path, Ansible plus ticketing tools.
Pay like? Salary?
looking for high pay job? how much effort are you willing to put into free learning? and how willing are you to be continously in learning mode?
there's tonnes of free resources out there on the internet nowadays. In the past it used to be time-locked behind reference section in public libraries.
I used books and forums. Have to agree though. You gotta love it to death almost to be exceptional.
C level execs… CIO, CTO.
COBOL is a good one ; the other one I thought of was splunk. you can get your own free version - lots of material available on the interweb and splunk answers. Aim for knowing the answers to the questions asked in the splunk forums .. then do apply for jobs with minimum qualifications/certifications. go job hopping for a couple of years and you will be making 6 figures easy.
IT Jobs? Sales
Selling fake cisco equipment - https://au.pcmag.com/networking/95002/ceo-arrested-for-selli…
That paid well for
creativesalesat that point you might as well start a NFT exchange site or something.
That's an option too. For all those chasing that chest full of gold coins!
You can learn the basics of web and software development through a few courses and apply it to small projects, this took me about a year of serious self study. That'll land you a 50-60k a year job. You'll need to spend anywhere up to 5 years in similar paying jobs, continuing your professional development before you can start making "big bucks (6 figures)".
This is my own personal experience. Maybe I'm just lucky, idk.
That'll land you a 50-60k a year job.
That a salary? Cause hours suck.I'm fairly certain you be needing to spend more time than 12xmonths of serious self study. I am curious to know what you completed, what web/programming languages you know and what job role you acquired. I've always found a portfolio of work to be a requirement for most web/software roles.
Web and software development are 2 different professions - I know cause my qualification many, many years back covered both to some degree mostly the former and even though they may overlap in some minor areas they're not the same.
Just learn JavaScript… it’s literally everywhere, semantically less complicated than some other languages, more forgiving, has a massive ecosystem and support around it, and eventually you’ll be confident enough to just pick up any language (with some JS biases 😂). I’ve seen people in my team with 3-4 years experience, who are good team players be on 110-140k. Juniors seem to start around 70-90k if they have interest/other projects to show their skills.
IT Market in Australia seems super hot.
I was getting frustrated applying for UK Roles with rejections upon rejections. However, this improved my interview technique.
Bit the bullet and applied for Aussie Remote roles. Got an offer 30% higher than my current pay in 2 weeks with lower effort. Weird Market here.
I was at one of the big insurance houses and one of the apps in my portfolio had one guy supporting/developing who was 58 and a support budget of 170k, almost all him. They finally replaced it after 4 years of me harping on that the guy would retire and we couldnt replace him… cost $3.5M.
Bottom line is, sniff around the Finance industry, they are using OLD tech.