9 tech skills that pay over $120,000 and are in demand

Millions of peoples around the world work in tech industry and Pakistan is among top outsourcing countries there are

If you are an expert in rare tech skill you will be able get most paid. But the jobs that require such skills could be harder to find.

There are plenty of skills needed everywhere, but there is also plenty of competition for them, keeping salaries lower.

A startup called Paysa, which uses artificial intelligence to help people determine their market worth and to advice them on which skills to learn to boost their salaries, recently conducted research to find most demanded jobs in tech industry.

Average salary and numbers of jobs available for 248 skills including 29 coding languages and 569 cities. Here is the list of those, most in demand.

Average salary for jobs requiring this skill is $124,475.

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8SQL is worth $126,532

SQL appeared in 13% of the job listings Paysa scanned. SQL is the language used with databases like Oracle, noSQL and Microsoft SQL.

Average salary for jobs requiring this skill is $126,532.

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7PL/Sql is worth $126,177

PL/SQL is appeared in 5% of the job listings Paysa scanned.

PL/SQL is Oracle’s programming language extension for the oracle database and it one of the most popular database of its kind. SQL – Structured Query Language, is highly in demand.

The average salary for jobs requiring this skill was $126,177.

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6JavaScript is worth $126,988

Javascript appeared in 11% of the job listing Paysa scanned. It is an extremely popular language for the web development and also considered as one of the easiest language to learn.

Average salary for jobs requiring this skill is $126,988.

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5C# is worth $129,692

C# appeared in 7% of the job listings Paysa scanned. C$ is offshoot of C developed by Microsoft and become a popular programming language for Microsoft web development.

Average salary for jobs requiring this skill is $129,692.

4Java is worth $131,962

Java appeared in 13% of the jobs listing Paysa scanned. Java is an extremely popular language, developed by Sun Microsystems.

The average salary for jobs requiring this skill is $131,962.

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3C is worth $133,691

C is a programming language that appeared in 5% of the job listings Paysa scanned.

C language appeared in 5% of jobs listing Paysa scanned. C is basis for lot of the other languages and used to be staple for a computer science education. Many employers prefer employees who know it.

The average salary for jobs requiring this skill was $133,691.

2C++ is worth $133,954

C++ appeared in 7% of the job listing Paysa scanned. It also one of those languages derived from C and a fundamental language to learn.

The average salary for jobs requiring this skill is $133,954.

1Perl is worth $139,214

Per is a popular programming language appeared in 5% of the job listing in Paysa scan. Per is an easier language and its syntax is similar to learn.

Average salary for jobs requiring this skill was $139,214.