CareerCast.com, an online database for job hunters, has named the top 10 jobs in IT and engineering for 2016.
The positions are based on information from CareerCast's Jobs Rated Report 2016.
CareerCast's methodology includes reviewing various key facets of the jobs and sorting them into four main categories: environment, income, outlook and stress. The data the database utilized is from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. CareerCast then calculated the jobs' overall rankings.
Here are CareerCast's top 10 jobs in IT and engineering, listed in order of their overall rankings.
1. Data Scientist
Annual median salary: $128,240
Growth outlook: 16 percent
2. Information security analyst
Annual median salary: $90,120
Growth outlook: 18 percent
3. Software engineer
Annual median salary: $100,690
Growth outlook: 17 percent
4. Computer systems analyst
Annual median salary: $85,800
Growth outlook: 21 percent
5. Network and computer systems administrator
Annual median salary: $77,810
Growth outlook: 8 percent
6. Petroleum engineer
Annual median salary: $129,990
Growth outlook: 10 percent
7. Web developer
Annual median salary: $64,970
Growth outlook 27 percent
8. Environmental engineer
Annual median salary: $84,560
Growth outlook: 12 percent
9. Civil engineer
Annual median salary: $82,220
Growth outlook: 8 percent
10. Mechanical engineer
Annual median salary: $83,590
Growth outlook: 5 percent