Top 10 Highest-Paying Programming Languages

Clojure

Average Salary (PA): US$129,887

Clojure is a functional programming language that provides tools to avoid mutable states and leverage functions as first-class objects. It emphasizes recursive iteration instead of side-effect-based looping. Designed by Rich Hickey, Clojure was aimed at solving the pain points of writing situational programs. The programming doesn’t force users’ programs to be transparent and strives for provable programs.

F#

Average Salary (PA): US$82,500

With the help of its open-source, cross-platform, and interoperable nature, F# aids in writing succinct, robust, and performant code. Therefore, users can put their focus on the problem domain rather than the details of programming. Besides, F# is used to streamline routine commercial business software. Its features, structures, and syntaxes of methods and functions are well suited for everyday business processes.

Elixir

Average Salary (PA): US$102,000

Elixir is a dynamic functional programming language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications. It was designed in 2011 on top of Erlang, another functional programming language that has been around for over three decades. Since its release, Elixir has become one of the most loved languages among software developers.

Ruby

Average Salary (PA): US$107,381

Created by Yukihiro Matsumoto, Ruby is an open-source, interpreted, object-oriented programming language. It was named Ruby to represent the language as the ‘jewel of programming.’ With its straightforward, complete, extensible, and portable nature, Ruby is loved by many programmers. It is a robust, dynamically typed, object-oriented language that is very easy to understand, even for people who don’t know how to code.

Go

Average Salary (PA): US$100,157

Go, also known as Golang, is an open-source, statically typed, and compiled programming language designed to enhance programming productivity in the era of network machines, multicore, and huge code bases. Developers often suggest that Go is the C for the 21st-century when it comes to syntax. Designed by Rob Pike, Robert Griesemer, and Ken Thompson, the programming language allows users to safely use memory, manage objects, collect garbage, and provide static typing along with concurrency

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Objective-c

Average Salary (PA): US$124,698

Objective-C is a general-purpose, object-oriented programming language that adds Smalltalk-style messaging to the C programming language. As a major programming language, Apple uses Objective-C for the macOS and iOS operating systems and their respective frameworks. Besides, it is used for general-purpose activities without any specific platform or system.

PowerShell

Average Salary (PA): US$118,354

Microsoft’s PowerShell is a cross-platform shell and scripting language that allows people to manage tasks from the command line and automate thousands of activities. Built on the .NET framework, PowerShell helps IT professionals control and automate the administration of the Windows operating system and applications that turn on the Windows Server environment.

Rust

Average Salary (PA): US$91,709

Rust is an open-source systems programming language that focuses on speed, memory safety, and parallelism. It provides a productive tool for collaborating among large developers with varying levels of systems programming knowledge. Rust helps users write faster and more reliable software. It also challenges the conflict of low-level control in programming language designs.

Kotlin

Average Salary (PA): US$136.575

Initially designed for the JVM (Java Virtual Machine) and Android that combines object-oriented and functional programming language features, Kotlin is a general-purpose, free, open-source, statistically typed pragmatic programming language. Since its launch, the programming language has skyrocketed tremendously and quickly joined the ranks of other most popular codes. Kotlin is highly focused on interoperability, safety, clarity, and tooling support.

Scala

Average Salary (PA): US$128,260

Scala is a top programming language invented by Martin Odersky and his team of researchers in 2003. Scala is a compiler-based and multi-paradigm programming language that is compact, fast, and efficient to use. It includes features of functional programming and object-oriented programming. Its source code is compiled into bytecode and executed by Java Virtual Machine (JVM).