| Important Core Job Duties (in order of importance) For the Top 5 most important - How can you build experience and skill doing these? This will help now, to begin preparing for this type of occupation. |
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| Importance: 100 (%) | Description: Perform or direct revision, repair, or expansion of existing programs to increase operating efficiency or adapt to new requirements. |
| Importance: 100 (%) | Description: Compile and write documentation of program development and subsequent revisions, inserting comments in the coded instructions so others can understand the program. |
| Importance: 99 (%) | Description: Consult with managerial, engineering, and technical personnel to clarify program intent, identify problems, and suggest changes. |
| Importance: 96 (%) | Description: Conduct trial runs of programs and software applications to be sure they will produce the desired information and that the instructions are correct. |
| Importance: 94 (%) | Description: Correct errors by making appropriate changes and rechecking the program to ensure that the desired results are produced. |
| Importance: 94 (%) | Description: Write, analyze, review, and rewrite programs, using workflow chart and diagram, and applying knowledge of computer capabilities, subject matter, and symbolic logic. |
| Importance: 89 (%) | Description: Write, update, and maintain computer programs or software packages to handle specific jobs such as tracking inventory, storing or retrieving data, or controlling other equipment. |
| Importance: 87 (%) | Description: Prepare detailed workflow charts and diagrams that describe input, output, and logical operation, and convert them into a series of instructions coded in a computer language. |
| Importance: 85 (%) | Description: Write or contribute to instructions or manuals to guide end users. |
| Importance: 82 (%) | Description: Consult with and assist computer operators or system analysts to define and resolve problems in running computer programs. |
| Importance: 71 (%) | Description: Assign, coordinate, and review work and activities of programming personnel. |
| Importance: 69 (%) | Description: Perform systems analysis and programming tasks to maintain and control the use of computer systems software as a systems programmer. |
| Importance: 68 (%) | Description: Investigate whether networks, workstations, the central processing unit of the system, or peripheral equipment are responding to a program's instructions. |
Computer Programming Careers and Jobs
Select, Find and Prepare for Computer Programming Careers and Jobs - all on one page
For self-taught coders, CS majors, or career changers who want to build software professionally. Use the tools below to see which computer programming roles fit your background and goals.
Career paths vary enormously by specialty and language. Someone skilled in Python for data work follows a different track than someone building enterprise systems in Java. Use the tools below to explore Computer Programming-related job titles sorted by growth rate, salary, or required education. You can start with entry points like Junior Developer, or look ahead to advanced roles such as Software Architect or Engineering Manager. Along the way, you will see specific certifications, such as AWS/Azure Certified Developer, that can help you move up the career ladder.
Here is a short Helper Video 
This page will take you through 4 steps to (1) Select from Computer Programming careers/jobs, (2) Find Computer Programming job listings, (3) Prepare for Computer Programming careers, and (4) Provide Computer Programming career-specific resources.
Step 1: Select a Career/Job: This page starts with 4 ways for you to identify and select from listings of Computer Programming careers/jobs:
A) Fastest Growing Computer Programming Careers - 2023 to 2033 (est.)
These listings are based on job growth estimates and helps you to identify the fastest growing and evolving Computer Programming careers. Some careers may not initially seem related to Computer Programming, so relevant Computer Programming jobs are listed alongside each listing. This can also help us to identify which careers (bottom of the listing) may have negative growth - perhaps due to automation or planned obsolescence.
B) Median Annual Salary U.S. Computer Programming Careers
These listings are sorted (descending) by median annual salary in the U.S. This may help us to identify our ideal career. We may not qualify at this time for the desired career, but this listing and the results provided can help us to explore job details, as well as learn how to appropriately prepare for the career.
C) Computer Programming Career Ladders (Educational Requirements)
These listings will help us to identify Computer Programming careers sorted by educational requirements (with the most difficult to obtain listed first). This may help us to identify career ladders (as we scroll down the list), and help us to get jobs that we qualify for now.
D) Select From a Listing of 92 Computer Programming Jobs.
The list may be quite long. There are two ways you might like to use this list:
1) Filter - As you enter a word, you will filter (limit) the list of job titles
2) Browse the list (Don't Filter) - You can simply explore the list of job titles. There may be many that you might never have considered to be of interest.
Once you have identified a job title of interest, simply click on it.
Step 2: Find a Job: After you have selected a career/job title above, you will see a form asking for your location. You will see several radio selection choices to utilize the job search site of your choice.
Step 3: Prepare For a Career: In this section you will gain access to detailed information to help you prepare for the chosen career. Information may include (not every career choice includes all of the elements below - updates occur quarterly):
Core Duties: Lists the primary worker-related tasks performed in this occupation
Supplemental Duties: Lists additional tasks that are performed but are secondary to the core duties
Work Activities: Summarizes the broad types of behaviors and actions related to this career
Specific Work Activities: Provides more granular day-to-day activities tied to the work performed
Essential Skills: Provides foundational skills that are core to performing this specific occupation
Transferable Skills: Provides career-portable skills that can be applied across multiple occupations and industries
Day-in-the-Life Summaries: Provides a snapshot of the key activities performed on a typical workday in this career
Knowledge Required: Provides the requirements regarding the acquisition of facts and principles
Software Skills: Lists software tools commonly used in this occupation, organized by category and priority
Preparation Required: Provides a summary of the required experience and education
Education Required: Detailed breakdown of the education required
Training and Experience Required: Detailed breakdown of the training and Training and Experience Required
Local Salary Information: Provides national and local salary ranges
Certifications: Provides appropriate government and private-sector certifications and/or credentials that may be required
Professional Associations: Provides professional associations that are related to the career selected
Job Listings: Provides links to active current job listings for the selected career, along with multiple similar job titles to explore. All information appears on this page without navigating away.
Related Careers to Consider: Lists up to 20 careers that might be of interest to you (related to your initial choice - what they do, what they know, and what they're called), ranked by best fit.
** If you clicked on a link from section D (as described in Step 1 above), you will see one or more links to an occupation that is usually a bit more general than your initial job selection - the link(s) is directly related to the specific job you identified through your prior selections.
*NOTE: It is possible that there may not be a career path identified for the specific job you selected in Step 1. If this is the case, scroll up the page and click on a different career/job.
Step 4: Career-Specific Resources (detailed and constantly updated): Continue to scroll down the page and you will find tabs that provide detailed (updated) links specific to the career you selected. This information includes:
Videos: Provides a listing of video links related to this career. A great way to get a quick overview of the occupation.
Resumes: Sources for resume materials and techniques. This can help to get you started.
Job Description: Sources that provide job descriptions, which are vital to resume and interview preparation.
Interviews: Provides links that can help you to prepare for and successfully complete the job interview. Can also assist with coffee chats.
Step by Step: Provides links to resources that can help to organize the career search process.
LinkedIn: One of the best professional social media sites that provides links, opportunities, and networking specifically for careers and career development.
Step 1 of 4: Select a Career/Job
10 Computer Programming careers are listed below (sorted by Percentage Change in Total Job Openings - 2023 to 2033 est.). Computer Programming-related jobs specific to each career are also provided. This shows which careers are emerging and growing the fastest. Please Scroll and Select below:
| Occupations | U.S. Job Openings 2023-2033 (% change) | Computer Programming-Related Jobs |
21 Computer Programming careers are listed below (sorted by U.S. National Median Salary). Computer Programming-related jobs specific to each occupation are also provided. Please Scroll and Select below::
| Occupations | National Median Salary | Computer Programming-Related Jobs |
21 Computer Programming careers are listed (sorted by Education/Preparation Requirements - descending) to provide career ladders. Computer Programming-related jobs specific to each career are also provided.
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Education/Preparation Categories: 5 = Usually requires graduate school (e.g., Master's degree, Ph.D., M.D., or J.D.) 4 = Usually requires a four-year Bachelor's degree 3 = Usually requires vocational training, related on-the-job experience, or Associate's degree 2 = Usually requires a high school diploma or GED, but not always Please Scroll and Select below: |
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| Occupations | Education/Preparation | Computer Programming-Related Jobs |
Scroll through the picklist (below). There are 92 specific Computer Programming job titles listed. Select those that may be of interest - you will get active job listing links, along with detailed resources to help you prepare for a career related to that job.
You can use this form two ways:
Filter - As you enter a keyword, you will filter (limit) the list of job titles below
Browse the list (Don't Filter) - You can simply explore the list of job titles. There may be many that you might never have considered to be of interest.
OR - leave blank and scroll through the choices:
Select a Job Title (Scroll and Select) :
Step 2 of 4: Find a Job
Find Job Listings:
Computer Programmers.
Step 3 of 4: Prepare For a Career
Computer Programmers
Description: Create, modify, and test the code and scripts that allow computer applications to run. Work from specifications drawn up by software and web developers or other individuals. May develop and write computer programs to store, locate, and retrieve specific documents, data, and information.
Please click on a section below to expand and see detailed occupational information related to "Computer Programmers":
U.S. Total Employment (2023):
185,700U.S. Total Employment (2033 est.):
167,300
Employment Change (2023-2033 est.):
-18,300 (-9.9%) Average Annual Job Openings (2023-2033 est.):
9,700
Core Duties
Supplemental Duties
| Important Supplemental Job Duties (in order of importance)
For the Top 5 most important - How can you build experience and skill doing these? This will help now, to begin preparing for this type of occupation. |
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| Importance (%) | Description |
| Importance: 86 (%) | Description: Train users on the use and function of computer programs. |
| Importance: 58 (%) | Description: Train subordinates in programming and program coding. |
| Importance: 50 (%) | Description: Collaborate with computer manufacturers and other users to develop new programming methods. |
| Importance: 50 (%) | Description: Develop Web sites. |
Work Activities
| Important General Work Activities (in order of importance)
For the Top 5 most important - How can you build experience and skill doing these? This will help now, to begin preparing for this type of occupation. |
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| Importance (%) | Description |
| Importance: 99 (%) | Description: Working with Computers: Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information. |
| Importance: 92 (%) | Description: Processing Information: Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data. |
| Importance: 90 (%) | Description: Analyzing Data or Information: Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts. |
| Importance: 90 (%) | Description: Getting Information: Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources. |
| Importance: 89 (%) | Description: Making Decisions and Solving Problems: Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems. |
| Importance: 87 (%) | Description: Thinking Creatively: Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions. |
| Importance: 84 (%) | Description: Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events: Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events. |
| Importance: 83 (%) | Description: Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge: Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job. |
| Importance: 83 (%) | Description: Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates: Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person. |
| Importance: 78 (%) | Description: Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information: Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity. |
| Importance: 76 (%) | Description: Documenting/Recording Information: Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form. |
| Importance: 72 (%) | Description: Developing Objectives and Strategies: Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them. |
| Importance: 72 (%) | Description: Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work: Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work. |
| Importance: 71 (%) | Description: Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards: Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards. |
| Importance: 71 (%) | Description: Developing and Building Teams: Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members. |
| Importance: 70 (%) | Description: Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others: Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used. |
| Importance: 69 (%) | Description: Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings: Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems. |
| Importance: 69 (%) | Description: Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships: Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time. |
| Importance: 69 (%) | Description: Providing Consultation and Advice to Others: Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics. |
| Importance: 61 (%) | Description: Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others: Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks. |
Specific Work Activities
| Important Specific Work Activities
How can you begin to build experience and skill doing these? This will help now, to begin preparing for this type of occupation. Specific Work Activities appear below: |
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| Assign duties or work schedules to employees. | |
| Collaborate with others to resolve information technology issues. | |
| Coordinate project activities with other personnel or departments. | |
| Design websites or web applications. | |
| Develop computer or online applications. | |
| Develop diagrams or flow charts of system operation. | |
| Develop models of information or communications systems. | |
| Document design or development procedures. | |
| Manage information technology projects or system activities. | |
| Modify software programs to improve performance. | |
| Prepare instruction manuals. | |
| Resolve computer software problems. | |
| Supervise information technology personnel. | |
| Teach others to use computer equipment or hardware. | |
| Test computer system operations to ensure proper functioning. | |
| Test software performance. | |
| Train others in computer interface or software use. | |
| Write computer programming code. | |
Knowledge Required
| Knowledge Required (in order of importance)
For the Top 5 most important - How can you build experience and skill doing these? This will help now, to begin preparing for this type of occupation. |
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| Importance (%) | Description |
| Importance: 95 (%) | Description: Computers and Electronics: Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming. |
| Importance: 69 (%) | Description: Mathematics: Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications. |
| Importance: 68 (%) | Description: Engineering and Technology: Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services. |
| Importance: 67 (%) | Description: English Language: Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, and rules of composition and grammar. |
| Importance: 65 (%) | Description: Customer and Personal Service: Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. |
| Importance: 64 (%) | Description: Administration and Management: Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources. |
Essential Skills
| Essential Skills (in order of importance)
These are the foundational skills most central to success in this occupation. For the Top 5 most important, how can you begin building experience and confidence using these skills now? |
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| Importance (%) | Description |
| Importance: 62 (%) | Description: Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. |
| Importance: 62 (%) | Description: Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems. |
| Importance: 56 (%) | Description: Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents. |
| Importance: 54 (%) | Description: Writing: Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience. |
| Importance: 52 (%) | Description: Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively. |
| Importance: 52 (%) | Description: Mathematics: Using mathematics to solve problems. |
| Importance: 52 (%) | Description: Active Learning: Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. |
Transferable Skills
| Transferable Skills (in order of importance)
These are skills that can transfer across occupations and industries. For the Top 5 most important, how can you strengthen these skills now so they support both this career and future career flexibility? |
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| Importance (%) | Description |
| Importance: 79 (%) | Description: Programming: Writing computer programs for various purposes. |
| Importance: 62 (%) | Description: Complex Problem Solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. |
| Importance: 58 (%) | Description: Quality Control Analysis: Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance. |
| Importance: 56 (%) | Description: Systems Analysis: Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes. |
| Importance: 54 (%) | Description: Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. |
| Importance: 52 (%) | Description: Social Perceptiveness: Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. |
| Importance: 52 (%) | Description: Operations Analysis: Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design. |
| Importance: 52 (%) | Description: Systems Evaluation: Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system. |
| Importance: 52 (%) | Description: Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others. |
Day-in-the-Life Summaries
| Day-in-the-Life Summaries These summaries show the main types of activities you are likely to perform on a regular basis in this occupation. How can you imagine your typical workday — using these examples to see if this type of work fits you? |
| Activity: Assign work to others. |
| Activity: Coordinate with others to resolve problems. |
| Activity: Create visual designs or displays. |
| Activity: Design computer or information systems or applications. |
| Activity: Develop models of systems, processes, or products. |
| Activity: Direct organizational operations, activities, or procedures. |
| Activity: Direct scientific or technical activities. |
| Activity: Document technical designs, procedures, or activities. |
| Activity: Prepare informational or instructional materials. |
| Activity: Program computer systems or production equipment. |
| Activity: Resolve computer problems. |
| Activity: Supervise personnel activities. |
| Activity: Test performance of computer or information systems. |
| Activity: Train others to use equipment or products. |
Software Skills
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Software Skills These are examples of software tools commonly used in this occupation, organized from most to least important for your career preparation. How can you start learning or practicing the highest-priority tools so that you feel confident using them on the job? |
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| Oracle WebLogic Server Red Hat WildFly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| IBM Cognos Impromptu MicroStrategy Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Qlik Tech QlikView | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| IBM WebSphere | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Computer aided design and drafting CADD software Dassault Systemes CATIA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Configuration management software: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IBM Rational ClearCase Perforce Helix software Revision control software | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Emerald Software Group Emerald Green Office Workflow software | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ReCrystallize Crystal Reports SAP Crystal Reports | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Data base user interface and query software: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| dBASE Plus FileMaker Pro IEA Software Emerald Oracle JDBC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Microsoft Publisher | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| IBM Power Systems software Microsoft Systems Management Server | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Delphi Technology Oracle E-Business Suite Financials | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Geographic information system GIS software | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Graphical user interface development software: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Basis BBx VisualPRO/5 Graphical user interface GUI design software Salesforce Visualforce | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Quest Erwin Data Modeler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nagios Network intrusion prevention systems NIPS Snort Wireshark | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Network security and virtual private network VPN equipment software: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Virtual private networking VPN software | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Microsoft Visual FoxPro | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Adobe Dreamweaver CoffeeCup The HTML Editor Microsoft FrontPage | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Preparation Required
| Preparation Required - How much preparation is needed to obtain this type of job? |
| Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed |
| A considerable amount of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified. |
| Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not. |
| Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training. |
| Many of these occupations involve coordinating, supervising, managing, or training others. Examples include real estate brokers, sales managers, database administrators, graphic designers, conservation scientists, art directors, and cost estimators. |
Education Required
| Education Required - by frequency of educational attainment This shows you details about the level of education most commonly held by workers in this occupation. How can you begin planning the educational pathway that will prepare you best for this type of work? |
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| Frequency of Attainment (%) | Level of Education |
| Frequency of Attainment: 88.0 (%) | Level of Education: Bachelor's Degree |
| Frequency of Attainment: 9.0 (%) | Level of Education: Associate's Degree (or other 2-year degree) |
| Frequency of Attainment: 2.5 (%) | Level of Education: Some College Courses |
| Frequency of Attainment: 0.5 (%) | Level of Education: Master's Degree |
Training and Experience Required
| Training and Experience Required - by frequency of training and work experience attainment This section shows you how often different types of training and work experience are required for this occupation. How can you start gaining the kinds of experience and training that are most common for this type of work? |
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| Frequency of Attainment (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience |
| Frequency of Attainment: 37.2 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year |
| Frequency of Attainment: 27.6 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 6 years, up to and including 8 years |
| Frequency of Attainment: 12.9 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years |
| Frequency of Attainment: 8.0 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 8 years, up to and including 10 years |
| Frequency of Attainment: 7.4 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years |
| Frequency of Attainment: 3.5 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years |
| Frequency of Attainment: 3.0 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: None |
| Frequency of Attainment: 0.5 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 10 years |
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Certifications
Professional Associations
| Professional Associations These associations connect people who work in this occupation or related fields. How can you start using these associations to learn more, build your network, or find mentoring opportunities? |
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Association for Logic Programming (ALP)
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Networks and Systems Professionals Association
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Job Listings
| Job Listings and Similar Occupational Titles - scroll and click to identify common requirements, keywords, and skills in current job listings |
Related Careers to Consider
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Videos
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Resumes
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Job Description
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Interviews
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Step-by-Step
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LinkedIn®
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