This article shows you the most profitable programming languages in the world. I compiled the average income of all programming languages and sorted them in a descending manner in the following table:

Job Description	Annual Average Income
Erlang Developer	$138,000
Haskell Developer	$126,000
Go Developer	$124,000
Scala Developer	$119,000
Python Developer	$114,000
Solidity Developer	$107,000
R Developer	$106,663
Java Developer	$106,000
Swift Developer	$103,750
Kotlin Developer	$102,000
C Developer	$100,000
.NET Developer	$95,000
C++ Developer	$95,000
C# Developer	$94,000
HTML Developer	$89,683
COBOL Developer	$89,000
Dart Developer	$87,820
JavaScript Developer	$84,000
Julia Developer	$76,735
Fortran Developer	$76,409
Matlab Developer	$73,000
PHP Developer	$65,590
D Developer	$58,000

Here are some interesting stats from this data:

• Erlang is the most profitable programming language with an average income of $138,000 per year.
• D is the least profitable programming language with an average income of $58,000 per year.
• Python is the most profitable major programming language with an average income of $114,000 per year.
• JavaScript is the least profitable major programming language with an average income of $84,000 per year.
• The big “traditional” programming languages C++, C, Python, and Java are six-figure earners, on average.

Let’s dive into the programming languages from most to least profitable next!

Erlang

An Erlang developer uses the Erlang programming language to develop applications, often in the area of scalable real-time systems with high availability requirements.

Erlang is a network-heavy programming language used by telecommunication companies and banks, as well as messaging and communication companies. (Source)

The average annual income of an Erlang Developer is between $110,000 (25th percentile) and $166,500 (75th percentile) according to Ziprecruiter (source).

Read Full Article: Erlang Developer

Haskell

As a Haskell developer, you create and debug applications in the Haskell programming language. Haskell is a functional language with type inference and lazy evaluation. (Source)

The average annual income of a Haskell Developer is $126,000 according to PayScale (source). Glassdoor reports an annual income range from $40k to $155k (source).

Read Full Article: Haskell Developer

Go

A Golang developer uses the Go programming language to create software, design applications, advise clients about tools and frameworks, and test and debug Golang applications. (Source)

The average annual salary of a US-based Golang Developer ranges between $111,000 (25th percentile) and $147,000 (75th percentile) with top earners (90th percentile) earning $156,000 (source).

Read Full Article: Go Developer

Scala

A Scala developer designs, creates, optimizes, debugs, and maintains software applications in the Scala programming language.

Scala is used in data analysis, data processing, distributed computing, and web development. (Source)

The average annual income of a Scala Developer is $119,000 according to PayScale (source). Ziprecruiter even reports an annual average pay of $141,810 for Scala developers.

Read Full Article: Scala Developer

Python

A Python developer is a programmer who creates software in the Python programming language. Python developers are often involved in data science, web development, and machine learning applications. (Source)

An Python developer earns $65,000 (entry-level), $82,000 (mid-level), or $114,000 (experienced) per year in the US according to Indeed. (source)

Python developers can go into a number of different niches such as software engineers, data scientists, or data analysts. Each niche pays differently.

You can learn Python with our cheat sheets:

Read Full Article: Python Developer

Solidity

A Solidity developer creates, edits, analyzes, and debugs code in the Solidity programming language used to develop smart contracts for modern Blockchain ecosystems such as Ethereum.

The average annual income of a Solidity Developer is between $60,000 and $180,000 with an average of $100,000 per year (source).

The average annual income of a Blockchain engineer is between $105,180 and $108,560 according to Glassdoor (source).

Let’s have a look at Google trends to find out how interest evolves over time (source):

We have created an introductory course on Solidity if you’re interested in pursuing this opportunity further:

Read Full Article: Solidity Developer

R

An R developer creates, writes, edits, and debugs software code in the R programming language with a focus on data analysis, statistical computing, and modeling. (Source)

The income of an R Developer is $130,327 per year in the US according to Ziprecruiter (source) and $83,000 per year in the US according to PayScale. (source) The average of this reported income data is $106,663 per year.

The top 10 highest paying cities for R Developers are the following according to Ziprecruiter (source):

1. San Mateo, CA ($167,537)
2. Richmond, CA ($156,639)
3. Stamford, CT ($152,526)
4. Bellevue, WA ($152,161)
5. Brooklyn, NY ($150,234)
6. New Haven, CT ($148,903)
7. San Francisco, CA ($148,053)
8. Lakes, AK ($147,561)
9. Brockton, MA ($147,399)
10. Paterson, NJ ($146,166)

Read Full Article: R Developer

Java

A Java Developer developer creates, edits, analyzes, debugs, and supervises the development of software written in the Java programming language.

Java is a high-level language designed to be used by the Java Virtual Machine. It has very few external dependencies and can run on almost any physical machine.

For example, Java is used a lot in network architecture and also in embedded devices, kiosks, and other in situ computing applications. (Source)

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The average annual income of a Java Developer is $106,000 per year in the US according to Indeed (source), $77,700 according to Payscale (source), and $96,000 according to Salary.com (source).

Read Full Article: Java Developer

Swift

Swift Developer Definition: A Swift developer is a programmer who creates software and mobile applications for the Swift programming language for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS. (Source)

The average annual income of a Swift Developer is between $93,000 (25th percentile) and $114,500 (75th percentile) according to Ziprecruiter (source).

Read Full Article: Swift Developer

Kotlin

A Kotlin Developer is an Android app programmer using the Kotlin programming language.

Kotlin is JVM compatible and, thus, fully compatible with Java. That’s why it’s often used as an alternative for Java when developing Android applications.

(Source)

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The average annual income of a Kotlin Developer is $102,000 according to PayScale and averages between $113,000 to $147,000 per year according to Ziprecruiter.

Top earners can even expect to make $158,000 per year resulting in a monthly income of a staggering $13,208!

Read Full Article: Kotlin Developer

C

C Developers write, debug, analyze, or optimize code in the C programming language used in a wide variety of areas such as operating systems, embedded systems, or low-level implementations of high-level languages such as Node.js, Python, and Go. (Source)

The average annual income of a C Developer is between $82,000 (25th percentile) and $113,000 (75th percentile) with an average of $100,000 and a top income of $128,000 per year according to Ziprecruiter (source).

Read Full Article: C Developer

.NET

Let’s have a look at the definition from the official .NET website:

“.NET is a free, cross-platform, open source developer platform for building many different types of applications. With .NET, you can use multiple languages, editors, and libraries to build for web, mobile, desktop, games, and IoT.”

The average annual income of a .NET Developer in the United States is $95,000 per year according to Indeed (source). Top earners make $115,000 and more in the US!

Here’s an interesting overview of the income of .NET developers broken down by their skills—using multiple sources of the income data:

	Glassdoor	Talent.com	PayScale
Average .NET developer income	$95,029	$105,000	$71,452
Junior .NET developer income	$64,070	$79,500	$65,405
Middle .NET developer income	$83,121	$93,692	$79,383
Senior .NET developer income	$110,731	$115,000	$101,175

Source

Read Full Article: .NET Developer

C++

As a C++ developer, you create software in the programming language C++ that is among the most widely used programming languages. For example, Google, Amazon, Facebook all employ a large number of C++ developers. (source)

The average annual income of a C++ Developer is between $45,000 and $140,000 according to PayScale with an average of $67,473 in the US based on 31 salary reports (source). But Indeed.com reports an even higher annual C++ developer income of $116,925 based on 480 salaries reported (source).

Do you want to become a C++ Developer?

Here’s a step-by-step learning path I’d propose to get started with C++:

• Step 1: Introduction to Computer Science (~40 hours)
• Step 2: MIT Introduction to C++ (~20 hours)
• Step 3: C++ Language Tutorial (~20 hours)

Read Full Article: C++ Developer

C#

A C# (read as “see sharp”) developer creates software in the C# programming language. C# is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language using static and strong typing, as well as a functional and object-oriented programming paradigm. (Source)

The average annual income of a C# Developer is $67,272 according to Payscale and $94,612 according to Ziprecruiter.

Read Full Article: C# Developer

HTML

As a web or HTML developer, you work on the front-end of a web application to create the visual user interface of a browser-based website.

All of them are built on top of HTML so there’s a massive and steadily-growing demand for HTML developers.

Many HTML developers work on a freelance basis for companies, organizations, and individuals that want to create a web representation. (Source)

A front-end web developer focuses on the graphical user interface (GUI) of the website using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with the goal of setting up the whole technology stack to enable users to view and interact with the website.

• HTML & CSS Developers make between $34,770 and $116,620 per year in the US with a median annual income of $64,970.
• The average annual income of a Front-end Web Developer in the United States is between $61,194 and $119,224 with an average income of $89,683 and a median income of $90,499 per year according to our meta-study of 8 aggregated data sources such as Glassdoor and Indeed. (source)

Read Full Article: HTML Developer

COBOL

A COBOL developer creates, edits, debugs, analyzes, and optimizes applications written in the COBOL programming language. (Source)

But is there enough demand?

Let’s have a look at Google trends to find out how interest evolves over time (source):

However, COBOL developers are highly sought-after because many Fortune 500 companies still rely on old code bases that run with COBOL — and they are not willing to lose millions due to an interruption of their business so they’d pay almost any amount to fix bugs.

COBOL developer earn between $79,000 (25th percentile) and $100,000 (75th percentile) per year – with top earners (90th percentile) making $110,000 in the US according to Ziprecruiter (source). Salary.com reports an annual income of $68,669 to $86,151 as a COBOL developer (source).

Read Full Article: COBOL Developer

Dart

A Dart developer is a software developer using Google’s Dart programming language that is focused on developing web and mobile apps. (Source)

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The average annual income of a Dart Developer is between $56,000 and $140,000 according to Ziprecruiter with an average of $87,820 per year.

If you decide to go the route as a freelance Dart Developer, you can expect to make between $25 and $50 per hour on Upwork (source).

Assuming an annual workload of 2000 hours, you can expect to make between $50,000 and $100,000 per year.

Note: Do you want to create your own thriving coding business online? Feel free to check out our freelance developer course — the world’s #1 best-selling freelance developer course that specifically shows you how to succeed on Upwork and Fiverr!

Read Full Article: Dart Developer

JavaScript

A JavaScript developer creates dynamic web applications focusing mostly on the front-end logic—but recently some back-end JavaScript frameworks emerged as well.

If you like web development and programming user interfaces, you’ll love the work as a JavaScript developer. (Source)

The average annual income of a JavaScript Developer is between $62,000 and $118,000 with an average of $84,000 per year according to Daxx.com and PayScale (source).

Read Full Article: JavaScript Developer

Julia

A Julia developer is a programmer creating applications in the Julia programming language.

Julia is a high-level, high-performance, dynamic programming language that is exceptionally suited for numerical analysis and computational science. (Source)

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The average annual income of a Julia Developer is between $47,000 (25th percentile) and $199,500 (75th percentile) with an average of $76,735 per year according to Ziprecruiter (source).

Read Full Article: Julia Developer

Fortran

A FORTRAN Developer developer creates, edits, analyzes, debugs, and supervises the development of software written in the FORTRAN programming language.

Fortran first appeared in 1957 and is still used today to solve some of the most complicated problems in modern science and engineering. (Source)

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The average annual income of a FORTRAN Developer is between $63,000 and $122,000 with an average of $76,409 per year in the US according to Payscale (source).

If you decide to go the route as a freelance FORTRAN Developer, you can expect to make between $30 and $80 per hour on Upwork (source). Assuming an annual workload of 2000 hours, you can expect to make between $60,000 and $160,000 per year.

Read Full Article: Fortran Developer

Matlab

Matlab developers create code in the Matlab programming language that is used for mathematical and scientific computations, data analysis, simulations, and machine learning. (Source)

The average annual income of a Matlab Developer is between $61,895 according to Glassdoor (source) and $84,591 according to Ziprecruiter (source) with top earners (90th percentile) making $135,000 and more.

Read Full Article: Matlab Developer

PHP

A PHP Developer specializes in designing, testing, debugging, and implementing software code in the PHP programming language — mainly used for server-side applications to serve dynamic web content. (Source)

The average annual income of a PHP Developer is $65,590 according to PayScale (source) ranging from $44k (10th percentile) to $97k (90th percentile).

Read Full Article: PHP Developer

D

A D or Dlang Developer developer creates, edits, analyzes, debugs, and supervises the development of software written in the D programming language.

Just as the C programming language came about because of deficiencies in the B programming language, D was designed to fix C.

In particular, D makes C object-oriented.

But unlike C++, which did the same thing, D is not backward compatible, and so doesn’t contain some of the weaknesses of C++. (Source)

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The average annual income of a D Developer is between $30,000 and $150,500 according to PayScale with an average of $58,000 per year (source).

Read Full Article: D Developer

Conclusion

Every programming language has the potential to make you lots of money. You just need to join the top 20% of coders and you’ll make six figures easily.

However, some programming languages are inherently more attractive than others.

My secret tip is Solidity which is the programming language to use as a Blockchain engineer. This has hugely growing demand (I’ve never seen such a thing in programming) and many Blockchain engineers make $100 and up to $250 per hour!

Solidity Learn and Earn

The Finxter CS Academy has many Solidity courses in case you’re motivated to learn!

Where to Go From Here?

Enough theory. Let’s get some practice!

Coders get paid six figures and more because they can solve problems more effectively using machine intelligence and automation.

To become more successful in coding, solve more real problems for real people. That’s how you polish the skills you really need in practice. After all, what’s the use of learning theory that nobody ever needs?

You build high-value coding skills by working on practical coding projects!

Do you want to stop learning with toy projects and focus on practical code projects that earn you money and solve real problems for people?

If your answer is YES!, consider becoming a Python freelance developer! It’s the best way of approaching the task of improving your Python skills—even if you are a complete beginner.

If you just want to learn about the freelancing opportunity, feel free to watch my free webinar “How to Build Your High-Income Skill Python” and learn how I grew my coding business online and how you can, too—from the comfort of your own home.

Join the free webinar now!

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Payment gateway integration is an important module in building an eCommerce website. For a WooCommerce store, there are several options to integrate a payment gateway.

A payment gateway is to enable an online payment feature at the end of the e-shopping process. There are numerous payment gateway providers that give secured, authentic payment processes via the eCommerce application.

The below list shows some of the examples payment gateway providers for the WooCommerce store.

1. PayPal
2. Stripe
3. AfterPay
4. Amazon Pay
5. PayFast
6. Square and more…

Stripe is one of the best choices that provides good payment services..

Reasons to have Stripe for WooCommerce

First, we will see why Stripe is the best to have this payment option regardless of WooCommerce. Then, we can see the combined advantages of having Stripe in WooCommerce.

Stripe is one of the most widely used payment gateway providers. It is a worldwide popular solution for card payments. It has several advantages and they are,

• Ease of integration and use.
• Reasonable transaction fee and conversion rate.
• Seamless experience with credit or debit card payments.
• Secure payment lifecycle with proper webhook registrations.

Merits of integrating Stripe in WooCommerce

• Accepts all popular credit or debit card payments via web or mobile.
• Embedded inline Stripe payment elements instead of redirecting. It will reduce drop offs and increase the conversion rates.
• By using popular WooCommerce Stripe plugins, it results robust solutions for making payments.
• Possibility for easy upgrading to get latest and additional features.

Methods of integrating Stripe in a WooCommerce store

Various plugins are there to integrate a Stripe payment gateway. Three of them are listed below.

1. WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway
2. Payment Plugins for Stripe WooCommerce
3. Accept Stripe Payments

The following sections describe these plugins and show how to use them to set up the Stripe payment.

Note: Before starting integration, get the Stripe API keys.

1. WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway plugin

This is with the latest possible version and the highest number of active installations. Let’s see its features and advantages below.

Version	6.4.0
Active Installations	900,000+
Last Updated	1 day ago

Features

• Accepts majority of the card payments.
• Supports Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Microsoft Pay based on the client.
• Builds an inline Stripe payment with WooCommerce instead of redirecting to the hosted services.
• Supports extensions like WooCommerce Subscriptions.
• Supports connecting Web Payment API to pay via mobile devices.

Advantages

• Keeps track of customer instances and saves time on successive payments.
• Allows quick checkout with touch or face authentication with Apple ID.
• Supports quick payments with a few taps using Web Payment API services.

Steps to integrate

Download this plugin from the official website and unzip it into the WordPress plugin directory. Then, log in to WordPress admin and go to Plugins->Installed Plugins to activate the plugin.

This plugin helps to create a stripe payment in a shopping cart in 2 steps. Click plugin settings and follow the steps below.

1. Choose test mode and set up the keys (Publishable, Secret key and Webhook secret key).
2. Configure Express Checkout settings. It also allows customizing the Stripe payment element.

Stripe element in WooCommerce checkout

Once done with the setup, the front-end shop displays the option to checkout with Stripe. The following screenshot shows the Stripe (card only) option on the WooCommerce place-order page.

2. Payment Plugins for Stripe WooCommerce

It supports card payments, mobile payments, direct electronic payments like ACH and more.

It requires WordPress version 5.6 or higher. The key information on the plugin state is shown in the below table.

Version	3.3.19
Active Installations	80,000+
Last Updated	2 months ago

Features

• Supports browser payments like Google Pay and Apple Pay in the product, cart, and checkout pages.
• Provides 3D secure 2.0.
• Allows add-ons like WooCommerce Subscriptions, Pre-Orders and Blocks.

Advantages

• It’s an official Stripe partner by which it has high dependability and trustworthiness.
• It has less friction and makes easy seamless payments to increase the conversion rate.

Steps to integrate

Download plugin and set it up in the WordPress shop. Go to plugin settings to configure the Stripe keys and more directives.

The settings page contains many tabs to group the configurations. Let’s see some of the configurations of the plugin settings.

API Settings	to choose test or live modes. to set Stripe API keys and webhook settings.
Advanced Settings	to switch-on installment-based payments. to enable event-based tracking. Example: trigger refund on cancellation; put on hold when a dispute is raised. to enable sending receipts by email.
Credit / Debit Cards	to configure Stripe credit card element settings.

Other than the above, the payments tab has configurations related to the different gateways like Apple Pay and all.

This plugin provides many settings to configure. For the first step configure the following settings to confirm that the Stripe payment has been integrated.

• API key and webhook configuration.
• Stripe card element fields customization.

Output Stripe payment option

3. Accept Stripe Payments

It places Stripe’s ‘Buy Now’ button in the UI. It allows purchasing goods or digital products or services. It embeds the Stripe payment element via shortcode.

It requires WordPress version 5.0 or higher and PHP version 5.6 or higher. It is the second recently updated plugin among the three we have taken for comparison.

Version	2.0.63
Active Installations	40,000+
Last Updated	1 week ago

Features

• Provides a single-tap payment solution with a remember me feature.
• Keeps track of the transactions in the WordPress admin.
• Allows selling digital products, media assets and more.
• Allows branding the WooCommerce shop by showing the website logo in the payment window.
• Sends email notification to the buyer and the seller.
• Provides options for future payments with the “Authorize Only” directive.

Advantages

• Renders a responsive Stripe payment panel.
• Allows Stripe element’s customization with CSS to match the WooCommerce theme.
• Gets additional data from the customers using custom fields.
• Secure payment with 3DS authentication and SCA.

Steps to integrate

Download Accept Stripe Payments plugin from the WordPress official repository. Then activate this plugin and configure it to render the Stripe payment option in the WooCommerce front end.

It allows a WordPress website to sell products without WooCommerce. Follow the below steps to configure a preliminary level of Stripe payment settings.

• Open plugin settings and configure API keys.
• Go to Stripe payments -> Products to add ASP products. This step creates the asp-product-shortcode differentiated with the appropriate product id.
• Create a page or post and map the ASP product to be displayed with a Stripe “Buy Now” button.

This plugin has 4 settings tabs classified by having the configurations of Accept Stripe Payments feature.

• General settings
• Email settings
• Advanced settings
• Captcha

General Settings

1. When activating this plugin it creates the ‘Thank you’ and ‘ASP product’ pages. The general settings populate these links.
2. The product-add action creates the ASP shortcode to be mapped to display the products’ purchase options.
3. It contains settings to configure price and currency.
4. To enable Billing Zipcode validation to prevent anonymous billing entries.
5. Mainly, this tab has the fields to set the Stripe API keys and to toggle between a test or live mode.

Email Settings

• This is to enable sending order receipts via an email notification.
• Configure the target address of the buyer and seller to send the receipt.
• It allows customizing email templates.

Advanced Settings

This tab is used to configure the display element of price, custom fields, terms and more.

• Price settings – to add currency position, decimal point separator, number format with a thousand separator.
• Custom Field Settings – to add options to get extra information for buyers.

Captcha

This plugin strongly recommends enabling captcha to prevent malicious attacks.  It provides two types of captcha services.

Conclusion

Since, Stripe payment is a widely used solution, demonstrating payment integration may guide novice and expert developers.

In this article, we have seen three Stripe plugins to set up the payment gateway. The majority of them are WooCommerce plugins.

Also, we saw how to accept payments via a WordPress store without the WooCommerce plugin.

I hope, these choices help to enable the Stripe payment on your WooCommerce website. The wide scope of customization will help to create a unique Stripe element for WooCommerce.

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What is an eCommerce Developer?

eCommerce website developers create websites for online businesses on which customers can purchase electronic or physical goods. eCommerce developers are web developers with a special focus on the infrastructure technology around payments, product shipping, taxing, reporting, and tracking & increasing conversion.

What eCommerce Frameworks do eCommerce Developers Use?

These are the most common frameworks for eCommerce development:

• Magento eCommerce Development
• Shopify eCommerce Development
• OpenCart eCommerce Development
• PrestaShop eCommerce Development
• BigCommerce eCommerce Development
• WooCommerce eCommerce Development
• Wix eCommerce Development
• Sitebuilder eCommerce Development
• Volusion eCommerce Development
• Squarespace eCommerce Development
• Webflow eCommerce Development
• Shopware eCommerce Development
• Ecwid eCommerce Development
• Big Cartel eCommerce Development

A large fraction of eCommerce developers will focus on those frameworks.

What is the Annual Income of an eCommerce Developer in the US?

Question: How much does an eCommerce Developer in the US make per year?

The expected annual income of an eCommerce Developer in the United States is between $59,475 and $109,000 per year, with an average annual income of $88,267 per year and a median income of $86,625 per year.

This data is based on our meta-study of 7 salary aggregators sources such as Glassdoor, ZipRecruiter, and PayScale.

Source	Average Income
Glassdoor.com	$86,625
ZipRecruiter.com	$83,786
Talent.com	$107,250
PayScale.com	$59,475
Indeed.com	$83,315
6figr.com	$109,000
Salary.com	$88,420

Note: This is the most comprehensive salary meta-study of eCommerce developer income in the world, to the best of my knowledge!

Let’s have a look at the hourly rate of eCommerce Developers next!

What is the Hourly Rate of a Freelance eCommerce Developer?

eCommerce Developers are well-paid on freelancing platforms such as Upwork or Fiverr.

• Related Article: What’s the best freelancing platform?

If you decide to go the route as a freelance eCommerce Developer, you can expect to make between $30 and $90 per hour on Upwork (source). Assuming an annual workload of 2000 hours, you can expect to make between $60,000 and $180,000 per year.

Note: Do you want to create your own thriving coding business online? Feel free to check out our freelance developer course — the world’s #1 best-selling freelance developer course that specifically shows you how to succeed on Upwork and Fiverr!

How Much Should I Charge as a Freelance eCommerce Developer?

• As a beginner eCommerce developer, you should charge $20-$30 per hour on freelancing platforms such as Upwork or Fiverr.
• As an intermediate eCommerce developer, you should charge $30-$60 per hour on freelancing platforms such as Upwork or Fiverr.
• As an expert eCommerce developer, you should charge $60-$120 per hour on freelancing platforms such as Upwork or Fiverr.

Industry Demand

But is there enough demand? Let’s have a look at Google trends to find out how interest evolves over time (source):

Both keywords “eCommerce” and “eCommerce Developer” have seen significant growth in interest during the last two decades. The field is likely to grow in the next couple of decades, so the industry demand is very attractive.

What Skills Do I Need as an eCommerce Developer?

These are the top 13 most important skills you should have as a successful eCommerce developer:

1. Flexibility in mind and thinking—the field changes rapidly!
2. Programming skills
3. Understanding eCommerce frameworks such as Magento or Woocommerce
4. Web development skills such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript
5. Full-stack (back-end and front-end) web development
6. Editing graphical assets such as photos and videos
7. Understanding design principles and UI/UX best practices.
8. English language skills
9. Communication skills
10. Content writing and copywriting skills (basics) to “fill in the blanks”
11. Website testing skills
12. Good security skills (e.g., SSL)
13. Data analysis skills

Learning Path, Skills, and Education Requirements

Do you want to become an eCommerce Developer? Here’s a step-by-step learning path I’d propose to get started with eLearning :

• Step 1: Introduction to Computer Science (~40 hours)
• Step 2: Introduction to HTML (~20 hours)
• Step 3: Introduction to CSS (~20 hours)
• Step 4: Introduction to JavaScript (~20 hours)
• Step 5: Basics of UI/UX (~20 hours)
• Step 6: Introduction to eCommerce Development (~40 hours)

You can find many additional computer science courses on the Finxter Computer Science Academy (flatrate model).

But don’t wait too long to acquire practical experience!

Even if you have little skills, it’s best to get started as a freelance developer and learn as you work on real projects for clients — earning income as you learn and gaining motivation through real-world feedback.

Tip: An excellent start to turbo-charge your freelancing career (earning more in less time) is our Finxter Freelancer Course. The goal of the course is to pay for itself!

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Related Income of Professional Developers

The following statistic shows the self-reported income from 9,649 US-based professional developers (source).

The average annual income of professional developers in the US is between $70,000 and $177,500 for various programming languages.

Question: What is your current total compensation (salary, bonuses, and perks, before taxes and deductions)? Please enter a whole number in the box below, without any punctuation. If you are paid hourly, please estimate an equivalent weekly, monthly, or yearly salary. (source)

The following statistic compares the self-reported income from 46,693 professional programmers as conducted by StackOverflow.

The average annual income of professional developers worldwide (US and non-US) is between $33,000 and $95,000 for various programming languages.

Here’s a screenshot of a more detailed overview of each programming language considered in the report:

Here’s what different database professionals earn:

Here’s an overview of different cloud solutions experts:

Here’s what professionals in web frameworks earn:

There are many other interesting frameworks—that pay well!

Look at those tools:

Okay, but what do you need to do to get there? What are the skill requirements and qualifications to make you become a professional developer in the area you desire?

Let’s find out next!

General Qualifications of Professionals

StackOverflow performs an annual survey asking professionals, coders, developers, researchers, and engineers various questions about their background and job satisfaction on their website.

Interestingly, when aggregating the data of the developers’ educational background, a good three quarters have an academic background.

Here’s the question asked by StackOverflow (source):

Which of the following best describes the highest level of formal education that you’ve completed?

However, if you don’t have a formal degree, don’t fear! Many of the respondents with degrees don’t have a degree in their field—so it may not be of much value for their coding careers anyways.

Also, about one out of four don’t have a formal degree and still succeeds in their field! You certainly don’t need a degree if you’re committed to your own success!

Freelancing vs Employment Status

The percentage of freelance developers increases steadily. The fraction of freelance developers has already reached 11.21%!

This indicates that more and more work will be done in a more flexible work environment—and fewer and fewer companies and clients want to hire inflexible talent.

Here are the stats from the StackOverflow developer survey (source):

Do you want to become a professional freelance developer and earn some money on the side or as your primary source of income?

Resource: Check out our freelance developer course—it’s the best freelance developer course in the world with the highest student success rate in the industry!

Other Programming Languages Used by Professional Developers

The StackOverflow developer survey collected 58000 responses about the following question (source):

Which programming, scripting, and markup languages have you done extensive development work in over the past year, and which do you want to work in over the next year?

These are the languages you want to focus on when starting out as a coder:

And don’t worry—if you feel stuck or struggle with a nasty bug. We all go through it. Here’s what SO survey respondents and professional developers do when they’re stuck:

What do you do when you get stuck on a problem? Select all that apply. (source)

Related Tutorials

To get started with some of the fundamentals and industry concepts, feel free to check out these articles:

• Freelance Developer – How to Code From Home and Earn Six Figures [Industry Report]
• How to Become a Python Freelancer—and Earn $1,000 on the Side? [A Step-by-Step Tutorial]
• How Adam Earns $5000 per Month as a Python Freelancer on Upwork [Month 4]

Where to Go From Here?

Enough theory. Let’s get some practice!

Coders get paid six figures and more because they can solve problems more effectively using machine intelligence and automation.

To become more successful in coding, solve more real problems for real people. That’s how you polish the skills you really need in practice. After all, what’s the use of learning theory that nobody ever needs?

You build high-value coding skills by working on practical coding projects!

Do you want to stop learning with toy projects and focus on practical code projects that earn you money and solve real problems for people?

If your answer is YES!, consider becoming a Python freelance developer! It’s the best way of approaching the task of improving your Python skills—even if you are a complete beginner.

If you just want to learn about the freelancing opportunity, feel free to watch my free webinar “How to Build Your High-Income Skill Python” and learn how I grew my coding business online and how you can, too—from the comfort of your own home.

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References

[1] The figure was generated using the following code snippet:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

import numpy as np

import math data = [86625, 83786, 107250, 59475, 83315, 109000, 88420] labels = ['Glassdoor.com', 'ZipRecruiter.com', 'Talent.com', 'PayScale.com', 'Indeed.com', '6figr.com', 'Salary.com'] median = np.median(data)

average = np.average(data)

print(median, average)

n = len(data) plt.plot(range(n), [median] * n, color='black', label='Median: $' + str(int(median)))

plt.plot(range(n), [average] * n, '--', color='red', label='Average: $' + str(int(average)))

plt.bar(range(len(data)), data)

plt.xticks(range(len(data)), labels, rotation='vertical', position = (0,0.45), color='white', weight='bold')

plt.ylabel('Average Income ($)')

plt.title('eCommerce Developer Annual Income - by Finxter')

plt.legend()

plt.show()

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