Software Engineer

Rating on Glassdoor's top 50: No. 16

Overall Job Score: 4.3 (out of 5)

Job Satisfaction Rating: 3.5 (out of 5)

Number of Job Openings: 17,085

Median Base Pay: $101,000

Software engineers – the most in-demand job on this list, according to the number of job openings – work with designers to help combine single program functions into a connected program and with coders and programmers to develop project roadmaps.

Generally the job requires a bachelor's degree in computer engineering or computer science and practical experience in programming and coding.