Want Engineering Work? Try These 15 Hot Jobs for 2021

Technology jobs are hot this year. As the pandemic continues through its second year, the engineering profession has come out butter side up. Here are some of the trends we’re seeing that affect the technology job market. The slideshow will show what engineering disciplines are getting the job traction.

This Is the Hottest Tech Job Market Since the Dot Com Era

According to Technically Media, the technology job market dipped in 2020 only to come back in 2021 with a 30% increase in job postings. The company report three major trends:

While those three forecasts may seem at odds with each other – if tech jobs are hot, why are fewer students pursuing STEM – these trends also match longer trends where manufacturing jobs are plentiful and college students are not interested.

In 2021, Technically Media reports that the average salary increase was around 2.9% in 2020, down from the projected average increase of 3.3% expected at the start of the year. Yet salaries in 2021 are starting to rise as a result of competition.

Sources for this story: New Engineer, LinkedIn, Austin Nichols, CIO, Modis, SmartAsset, Career Karma, SoloPoint Solutions, Palmer Group, Ranstad, CareerExplorer, Forbes, Computer Science Career Hub, PayScale, and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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