As Automation, Disruption and Innovation change the way people live and work every day, jobs in Artificial Intelligence are proving to be some of the biggest career opportunities.

Linkedin’s 2020 Emerging Jobs Report names Artificial Intelligence Specialist as the job that saw the most growth in the past few years. The career site looked at each job’s growth rate in hiring every year over the past five years, to determine the emerging jobs list.

Many of the emerging jobs are primarily located in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, Boston, Seattle and Los Angeles, however with the Pandemic many of these roles are increasingly worked remotely.

1. Artificial Intelligence Specialist
   Average growth rate since 2015: 74%
   Average pay: $136,000 per year
2. Robotics engineer
   Average growth rate since 2015: 40%
   Average pay: $85,000 per year
3. Data Scientist
   Average growth rate since 2015: 37%
   Average pay: $143,000 per year
4. Full stack engineer
   Average growth rate since 2015: 35%
   Average pay: $82,000 per year
5. Site reliability engineer
   Average growth rate since 2015: 34%
   Average pay: $130,000 per year
6. Customer success specialist
   Average growth rate since 2015: 34%
   Average pay: $90,000 per year
7. Sales Development Executive
   Average annual growth rate since 2015: 34%
   Average pay: $60,000 per year
8. Data engineer
   Average annual growth rate since 2015: 33%
   Average pay: $100,000 per year
9. Behavioral Health Technician
   Average annual growth rate since 2015: 32%
   Average pay: $33,000 per year
10. Cybersecurity Specialist
    Average growth rate since 2015: 30%
    Average pay: $103,000 per year
11. Back end developer
    Average growth rate since 2015: 30%
    Average pay: $88,000 per year
12. Chief revenue officer
    Average annual growth rate since 2015: 28%
    Average pay: $330,000 per year
13. Cloud engineer
    Average growth rate since 2015: 27%
    Average pay: $100,000 per year
14. JavaScript developer
    Average growth rate since 2015: 15%
    Average pay: $83,000 per year.
15. Product Owner.
    Average growth rate since 2015: 24%
    Average pay: $100,000 per year.

https://business.linkedin.com/content/dam/me/business/en-us/talent-solutions/emerging-jobs-report/Emerging_Jobs_Report_U.S._FINAL.pdf