10 highest-paying IT skills for 2024

Average salary: $168,636

Computer vision

Computer vision is an area of AI focused on enabling computers to see the world as humans do, and to derive meaningful insights from visual inputs and digital images. The goal is to enable AI to intelligently process visual information, make decisions based on what it sees, offer recommendations, and even take action to remedy problems as they arise. Computer vision skills are important for helping AI systems with image classification, object detection and recognition, 3D reconstructions, biometric data collection, and motion tracking and analysis.

Average salary: $166,873

SystemVerilog

Commonly used in the semiconductor industry, SystemVerilog is a hardware description and verification language used to model, design, test, simulate, and implement electronic systems. SystemVerilog skills are especially useful for digital design and verification, implementing advanced verification methodologies, high-level synthesis, FPGA design, ASIC design, and assertion-based verifications. These skills are most sought after in the semiconductor, telecommunications, aerospace, and consumer electronic industries.

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Andy Curtis is an award-winning security consultant, researcher and public speaker. He has been working in the computer security industry since the early 1990s, having been employed by state and federal government, leading healthcare and banking providers across three continents. He has given talks about computer security for some of the world’s largest companies, worked with law enforcement agencies on investigations into hacking groups, and is a regular voice on TV and radio explaining IT security threats.

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