Which of developers will have the highest median salary by 2026?
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5%
Engineer, site reliability
17%
Cloud infrastructure engineer
5%
Security professional
8%
Blockchain engineer
5%
Hardware Engineer
11%
DevOps specialist
5%
Data Scientist
5%
Embedded developer
35%
AI/Machine learning specialist
5%
AI safety expert
I will use the data from 2026 stack developer survey.
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