DHAKA: Job hunting site Glassdoor released a list of 25 best jobs for 2015, following the information shared by the employees who are involved with these jobs.
However, 10 of them are technology related jobs.
It looked at three things to come up with an overall "Job Score": Average annual salary, opportunities for advancement, and the number of open job listings, reports the Business Insider.
It then ranked these careers by that Job Score.
No. 10: Sales Engineer: Tk around 70 lakh
Career Score: 4.2
Number of Current Job Openings: 6,007
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.2
A sales engineer is a job at a technology company. This is the person that matches a customer's technical requirements with the bid or proposal, and a person who acts as a technical resource for the sales force.
For instance, Google is currently looking for "sales engineers" to sell its cloud services.
No. 9: Mobile Developer: Tk around 60 lakh
Job Score: 4.2
Number of Job Openings: 4,651
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.3
A mobile developer writes apps for mobile devices. Every business today is looking to let its workers and customers access apps on smartphones and tablets. These folks make that happen.
Yahoo is looking for mobile developers. It has an entire mobile team in New York.
No. 8: IT Project Manager: Tk around 80 lakh
Job Score: 4.3
Number of Job Openings: 5,700
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.2
An IT project manager runs technology projects at an enterprise or tech company. As technology becomes more central to every business, IT roles like these have grown in respect, salary and demand.
ESPN, one of the 50 Best Places to Work, according to Glassdoor, has pages of tech-related project manager positions available.
No. 7: Network Engineer: Tk around 68 lakh
Job Score: 4.3
Number of Job Openings: 14,092
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.2
A network engineer designs, builds, and maintains corporate networks.
Network equipment maker Cisco has hundreds of openings for network engineers and says that in 2015, the world will need 1.2 million network specialists worldwide.
No: 6: QA Engineer: Tk around 60 lakh
Job Score: 4.3
Number of Job Openings: 26,383
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.2
A quality assurance (QA) engineer (sometimes called a "test" engineer), tests technology to make sure it works as it is supposed to before it is released to customers.
Apple has over 600 openings for various test engineers.
No. 5: Solutions Architect: Tk around 95 lakh
Job Score: 4.4
Number of Job Openings: 3,982
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.4
A solutions architect designs complicated tech projects like a big new software application, or the rollout of a new corporate IT system.
Mastercard, named one of the best places to work for IT professionals by Computerworld, has dozens of job openings for technology architects
No. 4: Data Scientist: Tk around 80 lakh
Job Score: 4.4
Number of Job Openings: 3,449
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.8
A data scientist is someone who works with a company's stockpile of data –otherwise known as big data – to come up with business insights.
All the hot tech companies, tons of startups and and most of the big corporations are looking for data scientists right now. Facebook, for instance, has 15 open jobs.
No. 3: Product Manager: Tk around 90 lakh
Job Score: 4.5
Number of Job Openings: 10,294
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.3
A product manager helps a company create new products and figures out how to market and sell them.
Microsoft has over 500 open positions involving the "product manager" role.
No. 2: Database Administrator: Tk around 76 lakh
Job Score: 4.5
Number of Job Openings: 9,790
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.4
A database administrator runs a company's database, which is typically one of the most important apps a company uses.
Oracle, a company best known for its database software, has over 2,000 job listings that reference a database administrator.
No. 1: Software Engineer: Tk around 77 lakh
Job Score: 4.6
Number of Job Openings: 104,828
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.3
A software engineer designs and writes software applications. Software rules the world: it runs your company, your car, your home entertainment system, your city...
Everybody is hiring software engineers, even cloud company Salesforce.com, whose mascot is a "no software" button.
BDST: 1931 HRS, JAN 31, 2015
