Which of developers will have the highest median salary by 2026?
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6%
Engineer, site reliability
6%
Cloud infrastructure engineer
6%
Security professional
11%
Blockchain engineer
6%
Hardware Engineer
14%
DevOps specialist
6%
Data Scientist
6%
Embedded developer
30%
AI/Machine learning specialist
6%
AI safety expert
I will use the data from 2026 stack developer survey.
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